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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.
STOCKS NO BID – GOLD NO OFFER
It is not difficult to understand Cassandra’s enormous frustration. She was given the gift of accurately predicting important events and her curse was that no one would believe her. Some of us are cer...
Egon von Greyerz / July 25, 2019
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CONFIDENCE AND EUPHORIA WILL TURN TO FEAR & DESPAIR
Investors today have Hobson’s Choice. But they still don’t understand the options open to them. Thomas Hobson had a livery stable of 40 horses in Cambridge in the 16th-17th centuries. But customers on...
Egon von Greyerz / July 18, 2019
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GOLD IS FOR FREEDOM AND BENEFIT
Lemmings have a herd mentality. But following the crowd, can have grave consequences like falling off a cliff and drowning in the ocean. Many investors have the same instinct. They follow the crowd an...
Egon von Greyerz / July 11, 2019
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SWISS BANK LOSES CLIENT’S GOLD
Don’t let your bank hold your gold. They might not find it. A gold investor told us recently that his Swiss bank had moved the client’s gold from the bank’s safe to a private vault in the name of the...
Egon von Greyerz / July 4, 2019
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GOLD PRICE SIGNALS NEXT GLOBAL CRISIS
Finally it happened although it took 6 long years to break through The Gold Maginot Line at $1,350!
This resistance was a lot stronger than the original French one in WW II since i...
Egon von Greyerz / June 27, 2019
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I JUST WON A $1 MILLION DOLLAR WAGER ON GOLD!
At the beginning of last week, I was challenged with a wager on the gold price. The individual, who called me a “gold pumper”, wanted to bet $1 million on the gold price going below $1,000 before it r...
Egon von Greyerz / June 20, 2019
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GOLD MAGINOT LINE BROKEN – TIME TO BUY INSURANCE
The breakout in gold and silver that we have been patiently waiting for is now starting. The long term up move in the precious metals, which have been pausing since 2011, is now resuming. We can with...
Egon von Greyerz / June 14, 2019
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BRITS – GOLD MORE LIKELY TO SAVE YOU THAN ATLAS
Will Atlas save the world? Global debt of $250 trillion can neither be serviced nor ever repaid. More likely, it will continue to grow exponentially until the world financial system collapses under th...
Egon von Greyerz / May 30, 2019
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WITHOUT GOLD THE WEALTHY WILL BE WIPED OUT
The massive explosion of wealth in the world could be a sign of general prosperity but that is certainly very far from the truth. The printed money and credit expansion has only benefited a very small...
Egon von Greyerz / May 24, 2019
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COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE GUARANTEES SOCIALISM
How can a small clique of gold owners holding less than 0.5% of world financial assets be right? They are clearly a minuscule minority of obstinate goldbugs and contrarians who are living in the past....
Egon von Greyerz / May 17, 2019
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