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.
Insights & Articles
American Exceptionalism: Not Looking Too Exceptional for 2022
As the United States rolls into 2022, the tradition of American exceptionalism looks exceptionally untenable. With the inflation backing the Fed into a corner and geopolitical challenges mounting abro...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 3, 2022
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Dollar Illiquidity — The Ironic Yet Ignored Spark for the Next Crisis
With the unabating onslaught of global money printing, it can be hard to believe the fragility of the global financial system lies in a potential shortage of dollars. The nuance lies in the Eurodollar...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 15, 2021
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Fear and Inflation — The Timeless Policy Tools of Discredited Systems
When it comes to dying currencies and dying political credibility, be it from a parliament, White House or central bank, inflation, scape-goating and fear-mongering have always risen with eerie consis...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 9, 2021
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From Gold Manipulation to DC’s Latest Lies, Absolute Distortion Continues
As the gravity of the inflation problem begins to sink in with DC's elite, politicians worried about the next election cycle have proposed a solution: Print more money. Unfortunately, that's not a jok...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 30, 2021
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Latest Treasury, Fed and BIS Reports Confirm: All Twisted Paths Lead to Gold
For too long, we have been traveling on a twisted road of various monetary and fiscal experiments on a bus driven by world governments and central banks. It has not always been easy to see where the...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 22, 2021
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How the Fed Played Us—And Cornered Themselves as Recession Signs Mount
As inflation worsens, high-profile traders like Bill Ackman call on the Federal Reserve to raise rates and rein-in rising prices. The truth, however, is more dire: The Fed is cornered. Uncle Sam is fl...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 11, 2021
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How Long Can Lies & Control Supplant Reality & Free Markets?
Around every corner, increasingly artificial markets are precariously propped up with lies, deceit, and outright control from central banks, governments, and the elite. Systems approach a critical bre...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 8, 2021
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Gold: Chomping at the Bit for a Surge
Compared to the wild swings of commodities and cryptocurrencies, gold's performance over the last year has been a bit tame. Patient gold investors know, however, we have seen this race play out time a...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 29, 2021
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Are We Headed for Recession? Signposts and Realism
With inflation surging, shortages crippling the world, and business outlook tanking, it's time to ask whether we are headed for recession. All the signs point to a resounding answer of YES, but what w...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 22, 2021
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Distraction as Policy While Our Economic Rome Burns
Is Biden the president that played his fiddle while the US burned? As shortages, stagflation, and wealth inequality wreak havoc on an already divided United States, lawmakers focus on vaccine mandates...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 13, 2021
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