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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.
THE DOLLAR – FROM BOHEMIA TO BUST
Virtually no investor studies history and the few who do always think it is different today. The most important lesson is that people never learn. If they did, they wouldn’t be invested in a stock mar...
Egon von Greyerz / February 9, 2018
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MOVE IN COMMODITIES, DOLLAR, INTEREST RATES – ROAD TO HYPERINFLATION
2018 is starting right on cue. Inflationary pressures have been latent for quite some time but have recently shown the world what is to come in the next few years. How could anyone believe the propag...
Egon von Greyerz / January 28, 2018
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GOLD WILL SURGE AS THE WORLD HITS A ROCK OR A HARD PLACE
The world is now between Scylla and Charybdis or between two evils. Thus, there is no solution or positive outcome of the the present state of the world economy. Scylla is the rock or the six headed m...
Egon von Greyerz / January 19, 2018
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AS SISYPHUS FAILS GOLD WILL ASCEND
Welcome to 2018 - a year that will be the culmination of at least 105 years of mismanagement of the Western financial system by governments, central bankers and the elite. 2018 will be a year of maj...
Egon von Greyerz / January 12, 2018
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STRONG GOLD IN 2018 vs NEW WORLD CURRENCY
In 1988, the UK magazine, The Economist forecast that 2018 would be the year of a new currency which they named the Phoenix. Quite a mind boggling prediction 30 years ago really, especially since 2018...
Egon von Greyerz / December 21, 2017
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11,000 KG GOLD FOR A PAINTING – WILL COST 110 KG IN 2025
What is absolutely certain is that global wealth will be totally decimated in the next 4-8 years. It doesn’t matter if you are very rich or “just own a house” with some equity left. Most of it will co...
Egon von Greyerz / November 23, 2017
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THE BIGGEST WEALTH TRANSFER IN HISTORY
What will happen between now and 2025? Nobody knows of course but I will later in this article have a little peek into the next 4-8 years. The concentration of wealth in the world has now reached dan...
Egon von Greyerz / November 17, 2017
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EVERY WORKING AMERICAN OWES $ 1.5 MILLION
The facts just don’t add up. US wages are falling, trade deficit is at 10 year high, debt is surging so are stocks and the US Government has again managed to publish a number of contradicting employme...
Egon von Greyerz / November 9, 2017
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ONLY CONTRARIANS WILL SURVIVE
We are currently standing before one of the most unique and frightening periods in history. Never have there been so many extremes in so many different areas. In the last 100 years everything seems to...
Egon von Greyerz / November 3, 2017
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DOW TO LOSE 97% AGAINST GOLD
In the last 48 years, since 1969, an investor who put $1,000 into the Dow would today have $33,000. That is a gain of 3,200% or 7.6% annually. On the other hand, someone who put $1,000 into gold in 19...
Egon von Greyerz / October 27, 2017
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