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At the end of a monetary era a number of dominoes will keep falling, initially gradually and then suddenly as Hemingway explained when asked how you go bankrupt. Some of the important dominoes the wor...

Egon von Greyerz / June 17, 2024

Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine.

Matthew Piepenburg / May 5, 2024

All the fundamentals are now in place for the above equation to be true.

Egon von Greyerz / February 20, 2024

In Europe, many countries have been seething since 2015, when the first major wave of refugees reached Germany and Austria in particular. In the US, it was the election of Donald Trump as President in...

Ronnie Stoeferle / January 11, 2024

The health of the world economy is clearly linked to the health of global leaders. That clearly raises the question if unhealthy leaders create a diseased economy or if an ailing economy creates sick...

Egon von Greyerz / September 25, 2023

I recently blew the dust off an old Rudyard Kipling poem, “If,” which many have castigated as a bit overly romantic, despite its high praise from Mark Twain and T.S. Eliot to India’s Khushwant Singh....

Matthew Piepenburg / August 6, 2023

In this article I outline the major risks today, financial and geopolitical and also discuss the best way to protect against these risks. Physical Gold is of course the ultimate wealth preservation in...

Egon von Greyerz / March 1, 2023

With US and Global debt exploding prior to both assets and debt imploding, let us look at the disastrous consequences for the US and the world. Debt explosion leading to the currency becoming worthle...

Egon von Greyerz / December 1, 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

As the West is standing on the edge of the precipice, there are only unpalatable outcomes. At best the world is facing a hyperinflationary depression later followed by deflationary depression. But sad...

Egon von Greyerz / May 4, 2022

You may have heard money is the root of all evil, but what is at the root of all money? Seeing the outright theft of living standards through skyrocketing inflation and the mounting financial house of...

Egon von Greyerz / December 2, 2021

As world leaders gather in Glasgow at COP26, the world economy deteriorates. It is much easier for these politicians and bureaucrats to focus on lofty, nebulous goals 30 years away than to focus on im...

Egon von Greyerz / November 3, 2021