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.
INFLATION DEFLATION AND GOLD
The current debt and asset deflation will not lead to a Japanese 1990’s style deflationary period. It is more likely to lead to hyperinflation in the US, the UK and many other countries. H...
Egon von Greyerz / August 3, 2009
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THE DARK YEARS ARE HERE
The Dark Years are here In this newsletter we will outline what is likely to be the devastating effect of the credit bubbles, government money printing and of the disastrous actions that governments a...
Egon von Greyerz / July 14, 2009
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WHERE IS THE GOOD NEWS?
The only reason why there has been an air of optimism in the world economy in the last couple of months is that the bearers of these false rumours of recovery all have a vested interest. They are eith...
Egon von Greyerz / June 26, 2009
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Golden Shoots
No green shoots There are no green shoots. Every single piece of economic and market news we observe confirms our view that the current optimism in the world economy is purely based on sentiment and n...
Egon von Greyerz / June 19, 2009
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A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Take the following ingredients: A banking system which is on the verge of collapse Add a few $ trillion of government liquidity and guarantees Inject $ 100’s of billions in loans and capital Kee...
Egon von Greyerz / June 12, 2009
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LAST CHANCE TO BUY GOLD UNDER $ 1,000
“Don’t tell me what to buy, but tell me when to buy”! Back in 2002 we told investors to buy physical gold for up to 50% of their liquid assets. Since then gold is up between 220% and...
Egon von Greyerz / May 28, 2009
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UK JOINS THE PIGS – GOLD IS YOUR ONLY PROTECTION
We have told investors that the rating of US and UK sovereign debt is a farce and that they both will be downgraded. Today the UK is on its way to joining the PIGS countries as Standard and Poor’...
Egon von Greyerz / May 21, 2009
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GOODBYE DOLLAR – HELLO GOLD
Or, we could say “Goodbye Paper Money – Hello Real Money”. We have for some time warned investors that the era of the dollar as a reserve currency is coming to an end soo...
Egon von Greyerz / May 13, 2009
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Gold gains against all major currencies in Q1 2009
Gold outperformed most assets in the first quarter of 2009. On the Matterhorn Asset Management website the Gold charts pages show that gold gained between 4% and 7% against major currencies in Q1 2...
Egon von Greyerz / April 9, 2009
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G20 – Lies, damned lies and Gordon Brown lies
Gordon Brown has really surpassed himself in creative alchemy. He has turned $100 billion of G20 new commitments into $5 trillion of air! Take $100 billion of committed new money, add $500 billion of...
Egon von Greyerz / April 3, 2009
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