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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.

WILL POVERTY, DISEASE & WAR LEAD TO 3 BILLION FEWER PEOPLE?
There are 51 million American households that cannot make ends meet. This means that 43% of American households can’t afford a basic middle class life. Of these, 35 million are dubbed ALICE which sta...
Egon von Greyerz / May 24, 2018
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THE MOST INGENIOUS INVENTION IN THE HISTORY OF FINANCE
We are now in the final stages of a journey which by future historians will be seen as unreal as Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”. Just like Alice called the “Mad Tea Party”, “the stupidest tea...
Egon von Greyerz / May 17, 2018
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GOLD IS GOOD – GREED IS NO GOOD
It can’t happen here! What is happening in Venezuela and Argentina cannot occur in Western economies. That’s at least what markets believe with stocks and most bubble assets remaining in cloud cuckoo...
Egon von Greyerz / May 10, 2018
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GOLD HOLDERS – CENTENNIAL OPPORTUNITY
Strategic investments are made for the long run and with no intent of short term gains or concern of short term fluctuations. This kind of investing is based on buying undervalued and unloved assets a...
Egon von Greyerz / May 3, 2018
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GOLD 75 MILLION BOLIVARS – WILL HAPPEN IN US$ & EURO TOO
The coming hyperinflation will start slowly and few people will realise what is coming. But once the first real inflation signals are appearing, the process will speed up fast as the currency debaseme...
Egon von Greyerz / April 27, 2018
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GOLD SHOULD BE $16,450 & SILVER $761
The super powers in the West are doing what they can to provoke Russia and indirectly China and Iran into a world war. Most people alive today were not adults when WWII started and therefore did not f...
Egon von Greyerz / April 19, 2018
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AS GOLD BREAKS OUT – THE WORLD IS ON THE PRECIPICE
As the world is standing on the precipice of a total breakdown, both economically and geopolitically, an obvious question is: “Where is the money coming from” to save the world from perdition. The sa...
Egon von Greyerz / April 12, 2018
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WITH EXTREME RISK, PREPARE FOR A BROKEN WORLD
Between today and 2025, the world will be a very different place. We can learn nothing about the next 4 to 7 years from government, central bank or media propaganda as they neither understand what wil...
Egon von Greyerz / April 5, 2018
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TRADE WARS, PETROYUAN, DEBTS – $32,000 GOLD & $500 SILVER
Is this it? Is the bull market finished and the good times over? Well, they could very well be. We are looking at a world which is rotten to the core, a world which is built on debt which will never b...
Egon von Greyerz / March 29, 2018
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FAKE GOLD – SILVER EXPLOSION – END OF BULL MARKET
In the US, fake gold is now a growing problem that is not being tackled. Congressman Alex Mooney (not Money!) has just written to the US Mint of the growing problem of high-quality counterfeits. He al...
Egon von Greyerz / March 23, 2018
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DERIVATIVES – A RECIPE FOR DISASTER & SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE
Gambling is according to Wikipedia the wagering of money (or something of value) on an event with an uncertain outcome. Three elements are required for gambling, Consideration, chance, and prize. Thu...
Egon von Greyerz / March 15, 2018
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CENTRAL BANKERS NEVER GET IT RIGHT
Central bank heads have been at it again last week. And they have clearly all been singing from the same hymn sheet. The messages have been very similar from the bosses of the Fed, ECB and BOJ. The he...
Egon von Greyerz / March 9, 2018
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