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
Keeping Your Head Amidst Debt-Blind Madness
I recently blew the dust off an old Rudyard Kipling poem, “If,” which many have castigated as a bit overly romantic, despite its high praise from Mark Twain and T.S. Eliot to India’s Khushwant Singh....
Matthew Piepenburg / August 6, 2023
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The BRICS Won’t Kill the Dollar, US Policy Will
Below we separate the hype from the sad reality of the USD in the face of a new “BRICS currency.” Net conclusion: The real death of the USD will be domestic not foreign.
Matthew Piepenburg / July 24, 2023
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Markets & Main Streets Are “Suffering from the Sins of Our Central Bankers”
In this lengthy discussion with Ivor Cummins of Ivor Cummins Science, Matterhorn Asset Management, AG Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, speaks intentionally broadly of the macroeconomic, debt and currency...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 20, 2023
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Jerome Powell: Misunderstood Angel or Open Devil?
Becoming Powell’s (and the Devil’s) Advocate? I’ve been thinking, and re-thinking, Powell. It’s no secret that in numerous interviews and articles, Jerome Powell has been on my critical mind. I cal...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 9, 2023
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Gold’s Patriotic Role in Thinking Critically as We March Toward Recession
In this extensive, 1-hour conversation with Jesse Day of Commodity Culture, Matterhorn Asset Management partner, Matthew Piepenburg, discusses his evolutionary understanding of precious metals as a we...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 29, 2023
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Modern Currency Policy: Nations Compete, Citizens Suffer
Below we consider how modern currency policy may not be so good for, well, the people... This is why gold inevitably enters the conversation, for unlike policy makers, this old pet rock garners more...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 25, 2023
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Solid Gold In a Broken World
Below, we look at gold in a broke(n) world of hubris, debt, Realpolitik and a rising east. For well over a year, we’ve openly declared that the Fed is cornered. That is, Powell knows he needs higher...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 18, 2023
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Stories for Children: The US Economic Fairytale
When Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and took a big fall, “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put Humpty-Dumpty together again.” I see a similar fate for the US debt egg, whose cr...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 11, 2023
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Think Smarter than the Policy Makers: Become Your Own Gold-Backed Bank
In this spritely conversation with The Market Sniper’s Francis Hunt, Matterhorn Asset Management, AG partner, Matthew Piepenburg, discusses a changing global landscape and gold’s critical role in a ma...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 6, 2023
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Front-Running the Fed: How Gold & Chess-Players Beat a Rigged Market
We have hardly been the first nor the last to realize that rising rates “break things.” We’ve all seen the disastrous credit events in the repo crisis of late 2019, the UST debacle in March of 2020,...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 4, 2023
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