Insights
Egon von Greyerz has built a global reputation as one of the leading voices of precious metal ownership as a critical wealth preservation asset. For decades, he has written and presented internationally on gold topics and themes.
Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, compliments this legacy via an extensive background in risk asset markets - the fractures, risks and signals of which greatly inform his own and shared conviction for precious metal ownership. Together, von Greyerz and Piepenburg are the co-authors of Gold Matters, Real Solutions to Surreal Risks.
How the West Was Lost: A Faltering World Reserve Currency
Debt destroys nations, financial systems, markets, and currencies. Always and every time. The inflationary financial system is now failing because its debt levels have rendered it impotent to grow eco...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 30, 2022
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ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE FOR HUMANITY
We are now at the end of an era of economic and moral decadence in a debt infested world built on false values, fake money and abysmal leadership. All hell will break loose, and the consequences will...
Egon von Greyerz / March 22, 2022
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Why Gold Will Rise — The Financial System Has Changed
As the world focused keenly on Ukraine, few noticed the extent and magnitude to which the entire world financial system changed overnight. The consequences of this titanic shift are difficult to overs...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 16, 2022
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A GLOBAL MONETARY & COMMODITY INFERNO OF NUCLEAR PROPORTIONS
With the war in Ukraine raging, western sanctions against Russia are setting off a commodity crisis the likes of which this generation has never seen. In the face of an already-faltering financial sys...
Egon von Greyerz / March 7, 2022
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Ukraine War Headlines: Tough Talk + Real Math = Bad Options
Taken as a whole, all the chest puffing—from Boris to Biden—ignore the colder realities of the USD’s teetering reserve status, oil market realism (and inflation), Sino-Russian chess skills and record-...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 2, 2022
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Golden Insights in a Dark Setting of Ukrainian War and a Pivot in Swiss Neutrality
As the world continues to keep its eyes on Ukraine, Matthew Piepenburg and Egon von Greyerz sit down to discuss the unfolding situation as well as one of the most surprising developments of all: Switz...
Egon von Greyerz / March 1, 2022
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Swiss Safety in a World of Market Bubbles, Distorted Currencies and Global Saber Rattling
As geo-political fires burn around the world, we are reminded of the importance of safety and stability in the jurisdictions of gold investment. If private gold holdings are subject to political whim...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 1, 2022
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Von Greyerz: Cool Perspective on a Heated Ukraine Crisis
As Russia invades Ukraine, Egon von Greyerz sits down with Lynette Zang to discuss the conflict, its implications, and what it means for gold investors and the global economy. Whatever the ultimate ou...
Egon von Greyerz / February 25, 2022
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GOLD ABOUT TO ACCELERATE BUT AVOID TRUDEAU’S FASCIST KLEPTOCRACY
Trudeau has given himself the right to seize bank accounts, but there is no reason why he wouldn’t go further and grab other assets, such as stocks or the content of bank deposit boxes--including gold...
Egon von Greyerz / February 23, 2022
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How Markets Tank & Gold Rises
One of gold’s many attributes is its historical honesty, and as far as we see it, as gold rises, it calls “BS” on the recent tough-talk from on high. Markets, for example, expected gold to fall hundre...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 18, 2022
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