Egon’s Publications

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.” - Confucius

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Egon von Greyerz / June 2, 2021

Institutional investors are increasingly adding gold to their portfolios as a currency and inflation hedge. Those, however, who chose ETF’s for such an allocation face massive delivery risk of the ass...

Egon von Greyerz / June 1, 2021

Sensationalism, like central bankers and policy makers, has many faces, views and voices. This may explain why so many want to hold their ears, hug their knees and beg the heavens for a beacon of guid...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 30, 2021

As technological developments and markets go parabolic, we observe many market “experts”, even intelligent ones, forecasting that we are now in an exponential economic era. Thus many believe that this...

Egon von Greyerz / May 26, 2021

Below we look at the dark corner in which the Fed has placed themselves and investors: A one-way path toward tanking markets or crippling inflation. Alas: Pick your poison. For us, the antidote is as...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 24, 2021

“Everything is on fire” - Heraclitus (535-475 BC)

What Heraclitus meant was that the world is in a constant state of flux. But the...

Egon von Greyerz / May 19, 2021

We’ve written elsewhere about the ironic over-use of logic to justify otherwise illogical biases. As Swiss-based precious metals professionals who see physical gold and silver as currency protection...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 17, 2021

“O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to fiat money, it carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.” ― Euripides &...

Egon von Greyerz / May 12, 2021

Psychologists, poets and philosophers have written for centuries that many who have eyes refuse to see, and many who can think, refuse to think clearly--all for the simple reason that some truths, lik...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 10, 2021

The number one objective of a US president is to be reelected. To achieve that, it is not enough to be good looking or to speak well. No, the only way to be reelected is to buy votes. The price of v...

Egon von Greyerz / May 5, 2021