Insights

In this opening Gold Matters discussion for 2025, VON GREYERZ principals, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, address their major risk concerns for the year ahead, namely: market risk, political...

Egon von Greyerz / January 9, 2025

Another year is ending, which means it’s time to look back in order to better look forward. For 2025, I see no other realistic option or scenario ahead other than a weaker dollar and rising gold. This...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 31, 2024

This 32-minute discussion between Grant Williams and me covers my 55-year professional journey from banking in Switzerland, building and running a major UK FTSE 100 company (DIXONS), and setting up a...

Egon von Greyerz / December 26, 2024

Matthew Piepenburg joins Miles Franklin principal, Andy Schechtman, in a spirited yet substantive conversation on gold’s place, role and direction in a rapidly changing political and geopolitical land...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 21, 2024

In this 48 minutes discussion, Ronni and Egon cover a broad spectrum of topics, including: Ronni’s 18 years as the foremost Global Gold Ambassador with his “In Gold We Trust Report“

Egon von Greyerz / December 19, 2024

In a pre-election trip to DC and the Big Apple, it was clear to everyone with whom I spoke that, “Trump was never gonna win, period.” A month later, he won. These were pretty clever folks, so why were...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 15, 2024

Piepenburg rolls up his sleeves with a blunt assessment of BTC’s so-called “digital gold” slogan, which, based on the very definitional elements of money and the mathematical elements of volatility, c...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 13, 2024

In a no-holds-barred conversation, VON GREYERZ Partner Matthew Piepenburg sits down with David Lin to dissect the challenges and opportunities facing the incoming Trump administration.

Matthew Piepenburg / December 11, 2024

As we approach what usually should be a blissful holiday period, the treacherous path the world is now on does not bode well for 2025 and beyond.

Egon von Greyerz / December 9, 2024

Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, closes out 2024 with a no-holds-barred conversation with Grant Williams of Things That Make You Go Hmmm. Together, they dive into the fallout of the post-Tr...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 4, 2024

The combination of Eastern/Southern Central Bank gold buying and all CBS replacing their dollar reserves with gold will lead to unprecedented demand for gold for many years. More gold cannot satisfy t...

Egon von Greyerz / November 26, 2024

Needless to say, Donald Trump recently won the US election, and as JFK Jr. said of this “impolitic” figure, a “revolution” is coming. Depending on one’s politics, such a “revolution” is either music...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 17, 2024

In this pre-US-election interview, VON GREYERZ Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Jeremy Szafron of Kitco News to address the many ignored “elephants” in the room regarding recession indic...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 7, 2024

There is a fine line between happiness and misery, as Dickens describes in David Copperfield. Copperfield’s landlord, Mr Micawber, was just on the wrong side of happiness by six pence.  In a rece...

Egon von Greyerz / November 4, 2024

There Are Two Americas… This observation goes beyond the partisan divide of a polarized nation heading toward a polarized election. The deeper, irrevocable rift lies beyond left vs. right. Quite sim...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 27, 2024

In the latest 15-minute interview with King World News, Egon von Greyerz explains why gold’s price is expected to multiply over the next few years. You can access the full KWN article, The World...

Egon von Greyerz / October 20, 2024

VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins WTFinance to unpack the hard math and common sense ramifications of converging data points - from Chinese rate cuts and US markets to fiat money signals...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 17, 2024

Yet our army is shrinking while the navy is decommissioning warships faster than new ones can be built, our Air Force has stagnated in size, and only a fraction of the force is available for combat on...

Egon von Greyerz / October 10, 2024

VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Nomi Prins with Ted Butler of VRIC Media to separate facts from fiction as to the key themes facing the global financial system, namely: US recession ind...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 3, 2024

Matthew Piepenburg joins Jesse Day of Commodity Culture in a candid conversation on the myriad financial, geopolitical & social forces shaping the future.

Matthew Piepenburg / September 29, 2024

In an insightful interview, Jonny Haycock, Partner at VON GREYERZ, explores critical topics shaping the global financial landscape and the signals family offices must not ignore.

Jonny Haycock / September 26, 2024

Watch another refreshingly candid discussion of deteriorating financial, social and geopolitical conditions in the U.S. and abroad.

Matthew Piepenburg / September 24, 2024

As a polarized U.S. marches toward a political, financial, and perhaps even military crossroads in the closing months 2024, many feel what George Lukas might otherwise describe as a “disturbance in th...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 20, 2024

It was always inevitable that the GOLD price would reach $ 1 million! So, now we are there. The price for a 400-ounce gold bar has now reached $ 1 million. It reached $ 1 million on August 16, 2024 &#...

Egon von Greyerz / August 30, 2024

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

VON GREYERZ Founder, Egon von Greyerz, joins CapitalCosm to discuss current financial risks and the critical differences between short-term investing and long-term wealth preservation.  The inter...

Egon von Greyerz / August 14, 2024

The last few weeks are pointing to clear directional markets in the coming weeks, months and probably years.  – Stocks have peaked  – Gold and Silver have resumed a secular uptrend. (...

Egon von Greyerz / August 12, 2024

In this important 20-minute Gold Matters discussion, Matt Piepenburg and Egon von Greyerz cover critical areas which are vital for investors to survive in a tumultuous world.  These include: – W...

Egon von Greyerz / August 8, 2024

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

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

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