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 the Petrodollar the Next Thing to Break?
As we warned throughout 2022, the Fed’s overly rapid and overly steep rate hikes would only “work” until things began breaking, and, well…things have clearly begun to break, including the petrodollar....
Matthew Piepenburg / April 6, 2023
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Today & Tomorrow: Volatility Worse Than 1987, September 11th and the 2008 Crisis
In this 30-minute conversation with Elijah Johnson of Liberty Finance, Matthew Piepenburg addresses the escalating ripple effects of the U.S. banking crisis and the growing distrust of gasping bond ma...
Matthew Piepenburg / April 4, 2023
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Bond Destruction, Banking Waste and the Tilt Toward CBDC
In this extensive and now English-translated, interview with Jan Kneist of Investor Talk, Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses the critical themes of the ongoing bankin...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 29, 2023
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Je T’Accuse: To Bond Killers & Other Villains Destroying Our World
From bond markets to border wars, the world is openly and objectively tilting toward disaster. Many of us already know this, but what can be done? As I look back on just the latest and entirely predi...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 26, 2023
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Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Just how safe is the banking system? Matthew Piepenburg shares his views.
On Wednesday 8th March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced a loss $1.8B from sale of investment securities. Investors and Depositors got spooked, withdrawing estimated $42B+ in cash within a f...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 15, 2023
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Making Common, Golden Sense of the Next Senseless Bank Crisis
Two Failed Banks. The tech-friendly SVB story (i.e. FDIC shutdown) is actually preceded by another failed bank, namely the crypto-friendly Silvergate Capital. Corp, now heading into voluntary liquidat...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 13, 2023
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California Dreaming – Staatsmetapher für eine Scheiternde Nation
Im Folgenden betrachten wir den US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien als Metapher für einen gescheiterten Staat aber auch als Metapher für das Scheitern des amerikanischen Staatenverbunds.
Matthew Piepenburg / March 10, 2023
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California Dreaming—State Metaphor for a Failing Nation
We consider the State of California as the metaphor of a failed state as well as the failing state of the American Union, which is anything but a dream.
Matthew Piepenburg / March 8, 2023
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Powell’s Gettysburg Moment, the USD’s Waterloo & Today’s Open Madness
Regardless of what Powell says today, the real play is 3 to 4 moves ahead, which all point toward an inevitably weaker USD and thus an inevitably rising gold price. Powell, of course, is more politic...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 22, 2023
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No Matter How You Turn It, The Global System is Already Doomed: Got Gold?
With inflation ripping and war blazing, many still argue that gold did not do enough. Hmmm… But gold in every currency but the USD (see above) would beg to differ. Furthermore, and as argued so man...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 8, 2023
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