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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Matthew Piepenburg: A New Currency System is Emerging
Is a new currency system emerging? Debt to GDP ratios are exploding globally, and inflation and wealth inequality have reached a point of crisis. Is the fed running out of options? Perhaps not. In thi...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 27, 2021
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Why is Gold Not Rising?
In an environment where it seems every asset is reaching record highs and inflation is rampant, it is reasonable to ask: Why isn't gold absolutely ripping? The answer is complex, but be assured--pati...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 23, 2021
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Nothing is Real: A Visual Journey Through Market Absurdity
In an economy of negative-yielding debt, high inflation, plummeting consumer confidence, and a crumbling culture, only one fact is certain: Nothing is real. Math can be disregarded, and numbers don't...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 14, 2021
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Four Unreported Signs Paper Money is Dying
In the post-pandemic world, signs of the death of paper money are everywhere, but the deeper one looks, the more evident and painfully predictable it becomes. Central banks are backed into a corner, a...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 2, 2021
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COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID
Mountains of cash have been printed during the pandemic in the form of fiscal and monetary stimulus. Despite all the talk of public health and safety, these bailouts are about reanimating our sick and...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 27, 2021
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Tonya Harding Explains Gold’s “Flash Crash”
Far from being the result of a jobs report or expected Fed rate hikes, Monday's "flash crash" in the gold market was a deliberate and orchestrated manipulation of the markets, kneecapping gold like a...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 13, 2021
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What Gold Volatility, Stanley Fischer, and CBDC Can Tell Us About What Lies Ahead
Recent movements in gold markets, comments by former Vice Chair of the Fed Stanley Fischer, and moves toward Central Bank Digital Currencies show a glimpse into the minds of central bankers and offer...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 9, 2021
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The Latest Lie from on-High: An “Independent Federal Reserve”
The Federal Reserve, we are told, is "independent" from political pressures and forces. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Fed is increasingly another branch of the White house, and our econ...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 30, 2021
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The Death of Truth & the Rise of Centralized Government Control
Centralized government control has resulted in distortion of the reality of our economy and our future. Conditions will further unravel as the truth continues to be suppressed.
Matthew Piepenburg / July 25, 2021
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Liquidity Crisis: Wells Fargo & Repo Markets Sound Alarms
Recent news of Wells Fargo suspending personal lines of credit and continued volatility in the repo market portend a coming liquidity crisis. In an era when deep cracks in the financial system are ban...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 16, 2021
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Gold Storage in Banks? Think Again.
For informed investors who have successfully traversed the tired Bitcoin vs. Gold debate and recognized the critical importance of owning physical (as opposed to paper/ETF) gold as an obvious antidote...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 12, 2021
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Basel III and Gold: The Trillion-Dollar Question
June 28th has come and gone, which means the much-anticipated Basel III “macro prudential regulation” to make so-called “safe” banks “safer” has officially kicked off in the European Union (as it will...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 1, 2021
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