Matthew Piepenburg
Partner Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001.Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the most reliable and longer-term protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join VON GREYERZ.
The author of the Amazon No#1 Release, Rigged to Fail, Matt is fluent in French, German and English; he is a graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD). Along with Egon von Greyerz, Matthew is the co-author of Gold Matters, which offers an extensive examination of gold as an historically-confirmed wealth-preservation asset.
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CREDIT MARKETS—THE FATAL SHARK RISING FROM THE DEEP
The yield on the 10Y UST is known by most investors to represent the real cost of capital/borrowing. In short, it is the most important yield in the world, as it prices the cost of the world’s reserv...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 4, 2022
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US Financial and Political Leadership: An Embarrassing Shadow of its Former Self
In this brief yet engaging discussion with Jim Lewis and Ivan Bayoukhi of Wall Street Silver, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses further evidence of the U.S. Fed’s undeniable distortion of basic capitalism...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 27, 2022
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How an Illiquid Dollar Ruins the World
Over the years, we have written and reported a great deal about the US Dollar and the ironic mix (as well as danger) of its over-creation yet simultaneous lack of liquidity. This illiquid Dollar, a...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 19, 2022
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THE FED’S STRONG USD POLICY: A RECIPE FOR SYSTEMIC IMPLOSION
From Main Street USA to the village corners and central banks of Europe, Japan and elsewhere, the Fed’s strong USD policy is backfiring—big time. Just ask the Brits… Having spent years creating the i...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 3, 2022
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Even a Weaponized Dollar Won’t Stop Gold’s Historical Turning Point
Despite all the fake, real, twisted, straight or bent words, facts and policies emerging today, the West in general and the US in particular cannot escape the natural laws of debt nor the hard realiti...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 21, 2022
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Powell: A Breathing Weapon of Mass Destruction
Powell’s so-called “war against inflation” will fail, but not before crushing everything from risk asset, precious metal and currency pricing to the USD. As importantly, Powell is accelerating global...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 6, 2022
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The End is Nearing: A World Slowly/Openly Turning Away from the USD
Despite Western attempts to flex its currency muscle via USD-driven sanctions, nations like Russia and China are now leading the charge from a one-currency world to a multi-currency world of import pa...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 23, 2022
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Modern American Policy: Stupid or Sinister?
Is DC creating an intentional class of American lords and serfs, in which the former hand out stimulus checks to prevent the later from reaching for pitch forks? As we learned in the Europe of the 19...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 10, 2022
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The Great Recession: Facts vs. Denials
Given the evidence, the US is heading straight into a recession and will be forced to confront that reality (however downplayed or officially postponed) by cranking out the mouse-click money in a way...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 3, 2022
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Gold’s Rise Is Just a Recession Away
Current market forces collectively, historically, empirically and common-sensically point toward new highs for gold, whose bull market, which began to stretch its legs after the 2016 bottom of $1050,...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 26, 2022
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