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
Golden Question: Is Democracy Dying?
Is democracy dying? Pride Cometh Before the Fall Many years ago, the American political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, prematurely declared the victory both of liberal democracy and free-market capitali...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 18, 2024
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From Biden to Bonds: Unmasking a Template of Lies
Political opinions are almost as vast as financial opinions—from bull to bear, or left to right. But there are differences, no? Political opinions, unlike market evaluations, for example, more often l...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 4, 2024
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The New Abnormal: Social Unrest, Market Volatility & Currency Debasement
In his latest conversation with the David Lin, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses US political volatility (post-assassination attempt, pre-Biden drop out) and social unrest, with speci...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 25, 2024
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Is the USD Really Too Big to Fail?
Between politics (driven by self rather than public servants), markets (driven by debt rather than profits) and currencies (diluted by over-creation rather than chaperoned by a real asset), it is fair...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 14, 2024
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Why Gold Is Intentionally Misunderstood
In this compelling conversation with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, bluntly dissects the empirical realities from the main stream fantasies regarding the ris...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 10, 2024
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Gold vs. “Bad Cocktails” of Staggering Credit, Equity and Currency Risk
In this extensive interview with Adam Taggart of Thoughtful Money, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses a wide range of market forces impacting investors in an almost surreal 2024 of rat...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 24, 2024
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The Next Generation Deserves an Apology
I spend a lot of time tracking the ripple effects of embarrassing and unsustainable debt levels on our credit markets, rate markets, equity bubbles, inflation metrics and, of course, the daily-debasem...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 22, 2024
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MIS-REPORTED INFLATION IS JUST MIS-REPORTED THEFT
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Dunagun Kaiser of Liberty & Finance to discuss the clear and present dangers facing the US and global economy despite rising equity markets.
Matthew Piepenburg / June 14, 2024
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Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather than Fearing Change
There is much legitimate (as well as dramatic) talk about the failing US, its debased currency and its identity-fractured/inflation-taxed middle-class which has been increasingly described more aptly...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 9, 2024
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Is America Losing?
Below, we soberly assess the lessons of history and math against the current realities of a debt-defined America to ask and answer a painful yet critical question: Is America losing?
Matthew Piepenburg / May 19, 2024
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