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Despite Western attempts to flex its currency muscle via USD-driven sanctions, nations like Russia and China are now leading the charge from a one-currency world to a multi-currency world of import pa...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 23, 2022

As generally is the case before major turns in markets, optimism is still high. But this autumn is likely to change all that as the unfortunate realities of our situation finally hit the world.

Egon von Greyerz / August 17, 2022

Is DC creating an intentional class of American lords and serfs, in which the former hand out stimulus checks to prevent the later from reaching for pitch forks? As we learned in the Europe of the 19...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 10, 2022

Given the evidence, the US is heading straight into a recession and will be forced to confront that reality (however downplayed or officially postponed) by cranking out the mouse-click money in a way...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 3, 2022

Hawkish and dovish language is coming out of the Fed. The central bank is stuck between a rock and hard place. Even though the Fed has been relatively aggressive in its rate hikes, it will not be enou...

Egon von Greyerz / August 1, 2022

Current market forces collectively, historically, empirically and common-sensically point toward new highs for gold, whose bull market, which began to stretch its legs after the 2016 bottom of $1050,...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 26, 2022

Given the record high inflation, real interest rates are still clearly negative, giving the impression that the current global cycle of interest rate hikes is far from reaching its end. But this con...

Ronnie Stoeferle / July 21, 2022

With global debt at $300T+, and combined U.S. corporate, household and public debt well past $90T, the Fed’s “face-saving” attempt to raise rates as a weapon against 9% reported CPI inflation is a fai...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 19, 2022

In this brief interview with Wall Street Silver’s Jim Lewis and Ivan Baroukhi, Matterhorn Asset Management principal Matthew Piepenburg discusses the trap which central banks have set for themselves a...

Egon von Greyerz / July 15, 2022

The current and open fraud regarding the paper gold price in the COMEX market is now as plain to see as the open desperation in the global financial system, which is unraveling in real-time all around...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 11, 2022