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Even a Weaponized Dollar Won’t Stop Gold’s Historical Turning Point

Despite all the fake, real, twisted, straight or bent words, facts and policies emerging today, the West in general and the US in particular cannot escape the natural laws of debt nor the hard realiti...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 21, 2022

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Telling You What Powell Won’t: He’s Seeking Inflation, Not Fighting It

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

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Gold vs. An Openly Failing/Changing World

As central bankers play checkers on a global debt chessboard, we see below how policy hypocrisy, worsening monetary options, failed diplomacy, tanking bonds, rising rates, debt addiction, mismanaged s...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 13, 2022

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How the West Was Lost: A Faltering World Reserve Currency

Debt destroys nations, financial systems, markets, and currencies. Always and every time. The inflationary financial system is now failing because its debt levels have rendered it impotent to grow eco...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 30, 2022

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Ukraine War Headlines: Tough Talk + Real Math = Bad Options

Taken as a whole, all the chest puffing—from Boris to Biden—ignore the colder realities of the USD’s teetering reserve status, oil market realism (and inflation), Sino-Russian chess skills and record-...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 2, 2022

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How Markets Tank & Gold Rises

One of gold’s many attributes is its historical honesty, and as far as we see it, as gold rises, it calls “BS” on the recent tough-talk from on high. Markets, for example, expected gold to fall hundre...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 18, 2022

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Goldman Sachs & Bridgewater: Virtue-Signal as Implosion Looms

Although it may seem refreshing to see folks at Goldman or Bridgewater taking public swings at the Fed, it’s far too little and far too late. The warnings they are making today are the very same we’ve...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 2, 2022

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Fear and Inflation

Fear and Inflation — The Timeless Policy Tools of Discredited Systems

When it comes to dying currencies and dying political credibility, be it from a parliament, White House or central bank, inflation, scape-goating and fear-mongering have always risen with eerie consis...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 9, 2021

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Distraction as Policy While Our Economic Rome Burns

Is Biden the president that played his fiddle while the US burned? As shortages, stagflation, and wealth inequality wreak havoc on an already divided United States, lawmakers focus on vaccine mandates...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 13, 2021

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Nothing is Real: A Visual Journey Through Market Absurdity

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

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Four Unreported Signs Paper Money is Dying

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

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What Gold Volatility, Stanley Fischer, and CBDC Can Tell Us About What Lies Ahead

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

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