Egon’s Publications

Matterhorn Asset Management founder, Egon von Greyerz, discusses the impossibility of fair pricing in a distorted precious metals market with Max Keiser, of the Keiser Report.

Egon von Greyerz / February 4, 2021

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poison”. These words were expressed by the famous Swiss physician and scientist Paracelsus in the 16th century.

Egon von Greyerz / February 2, 2021

Market insights often come from unexpected sources. One of Harvard’s most beloved and popular professors, for example, was not an economist, but the brilliant (and thus controversial) campus philosoph...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 29, 2021

Most investors are more interested in getting richer than preserving wealth. This is why they will never exit the stock market. As the Dow up 39x in the last 50 years this has been the right strategy....

Egon von Greyerz / January 27, 2021

Most law graduates share a capacity to argue two-sides of any case, regardless of their own primary conviction. When it comes to gold, my verdict as to its ultimate price direction (upwards) and its h...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 25, 2021

If president Biden wants to save the US economy, his first measure should not be to print $trillions of worthless new money but instead tell his secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen to withdraw all...

Egon von Greyerz / January 20, 2021

For anyone inside or outside of the U.S., it goes without saying that things are indeed heating up in the land of the free. President Trump faces an unprecedented second impeachment just days before...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 18, 2021

Donald Trump is probably the luckiest presidential candidate in history to have lost an election. He doesn’t realise it yet as he suffers from a self-inflicted wound in the final moments of his presid...

Egon von Greyerz / January 13, 2021

As we say goodbye to 2020 and look toward 2021, the key numbers on my screen and mind have nothing to do with dates yet everything to do with this: 14. 14 is the number of trillions by which the aggre...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 6, 2021

It should and will come as no surprise that fundamentals like valuation basics and sane credit levels have left the building (and securities markets) for some time. Today, we literally invest (i.e. b...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 2, 2021