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The everything bubble has persisted longer than most would have imagined, but signs are mounting of its pending exhaustion. World central banks and governments will no doubt act to save it as they hav...

Egon von Greyerz / September 22, 2021

In an economy of negative-yielding debt, high inflation, plummeting consumer confidence, and a crumbling culture, only one fact is certain: Nothing is real. Math can be disregarded, and numbers don't...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 14, 2021

The US' chaotic and embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan lays bare a reality that most now recognize: The US empire (and much of the western order) is dying. All the classic symptoms are present:...

Egon von Greyerz / September 10, 2021

In the post-pandemic world, signs of the death of paper money are everywhere, but the deeper one looks, the more evident and painfully predictable it becomes. Central banks are backed into a corner, a...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 2, 2021

Mountains of cash have been printed during the pandemic in the form of fiscal and monetary stimulus. Despite all the talk of public health and safety, these bailouts are about reanimating our sick and...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 27, 2021

As most of the western world doubles down on easy money policies, one nation stands out and moves ahead with raising rates: Russia. This follows a pattern of a massive shift in power and dichotomizati...

Egon von Greyerz / August 17, 2021

Far from being the result of a jobs report or expected Fed rate hikes, Monday's "flash crash" in the gold market was a deliberate and orchestrated manipulation of the markets, kneecapping gold like a...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 13, 2021

After gold's dramatic fall earlier this week, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg dive deep into the data. Is this "flash crash" the result of organic market forces or deliberate and blatant manip...

Egon von Greyerz / August 12, 2021

Recent movements in gold markets, comments by former Vice Chair of the Fed Stanley Fischer, and moves toward Central Bank Digital Currencies show a glimpse into the minds of central bankers and offer...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 9, 2021

The Federal Reserve, we are told, is "independent" from political pressures and forces. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Fed is increasingly another branch of the White house, and our econ...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 30, 2021