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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.
TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO THE EVERYTHING BUBBLE
The everything bubble has persisted longer than most would have imagined, but signs are mounting of its pending exhaustion. World central banks and governments will no doubt act to save it as they hav...
Egon von Greyerz / September 22, 2021
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Nothing is Real: A Visual Journey Through Market Absurdity
In an economy of negative-yielding debt, high inflation, plummeting consumer confidence, and a crumbling culture, only one fact is certain: Nothing is real. Math can be disregarded, and numbers don't...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 14, 2021
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END OF THE US EMPIRE – ORWELL’S 1984 NEWSPEAK & DIRT CHEAP GOLD
The US' chaotic and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan lays bare a reality that most now recognize: The US empire (and much of the western order) is dying. All the classic symptoms are present:...
Egon von Greyerz / September 10, 2021
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Four Unreported Signs Paper Money is Dying
In the post-pandemic world, signs of the death of paper money are everywhere, but the deeper one looks, the more evident and painfully predictable it becomes. Central banks are backed into a corner, a...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 2, 2021
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COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID
Mountains of cash have been printed during the pandemic in the form of fiscal and monetary stimulus. Despite all the talk of public health and safety, these bailouts are about reanimating our sick and...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 27, 2021
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Central Banks Are Now in the Endgame
On the 50th anniversary of Nixon "stabilizing" the dollar by ending its convertibility into gold, we ask: was he successful? The answer is a resounding NO! After the dollar has lost 98% relative to go...
Egon von Greyerz / August 18, 2021
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The New Monetary System Will Fail Too
As most of the western world doubles down on easy money policies, one nation stands out and moves ahead with raising rates: Russia. This follows a pattern of a massive shift in power and dichotomizati...
Egon von Greyerz / August 17, 2021
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Tonya Harding Explains Gold’s “Flash Crash”
Far from being the result of a jobs report or expected Fed rate hikes, Monday's "flash crash" in the gold market was a deliberate and orchestrated manipulation of the markets, kneecapping gold like a...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 13, 2021
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Gold’s “Flash Crash” Explained: Charts, Fundamentals and Familiar Manipulations
After gold's dramatic fall earlier this week, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg dive deep into the data. Is this "flash crash" the result of organic market forces or deliberate and blatant manip...
Egon von Greyerz / August 12, 2021
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Egon von Greyerz and Max Keiser: The Markets Do Not Expect Inflation
In a recent episode of The Keiser Report, Egon von Greyerz and Max Keiser discuss the 50th anniversary of the demise of Bretton Woods, how stock and bond markets are pricing-in inflation expectations...
Egon von Greyerz / August 11, 2021
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