Fiat Money

For at least 35 years, the monetary system has been telling us that the current era is coming to an end.  That means a debt collapse, a currency collapse and a collapse of most bubble assets like stoc...

Egon von Greyerz / April 22, 2025

It was a tremor that shook the financial markets in the trading days following Liberation Day, when tariffs were imposed on almost every country in the world. One of the big winners was gold. After a...

Ronnie Stoeferle / April 17, 2025

In this timely Gold Matters discussion, VON GREYERZ principals, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, DISCUSS THE END OF A MONETARY ERA and offer perspective on the extreme market volatility unleas...

Egon von Greyerz / April 10, 2025

Despite the undeniable ripple effects of the recent tariff measures out of DC, the headlines, as usual, are mostly wrong about the causes of the current market volatility and the longer-term ramificat...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 9, 2025

The picture above shows the Bonfire of the Vanities (Falò delle Vanità)in 1497 in Florence. Objects of sin like art, books, cosmetics etc were burnt. Tom Wolfe wrote an excellent book with the same ti...

Egon von Greyerz / March 27, 2025

The inevitable consequence of the current Global Debt Bubble will be the Bankruptcy of the financial system and many of its participants. The one Swiss and three US banks that just went under is just...

Egon von Greyerz / April 16, 2023

Since the Great Financial Crisis started in 2006, global debt has more than doubled from $125 trillion to $260 trillion. The more money that has been printed, the lower interest rates have gone. In 2...

Egon von Greyerz / December 19, 2019

In the long history of governments and central banks deceiving the people, August 15,1971 was just another date in the calendar. Throughout history, the ruling elite has always cheated the people. But...

Egon von Greyerz / December 4, 2019

Viktor set out his investment strategy early in life. He started with $10,000 in 1970 and his assets are today worth $121 million. But Viktor believes that this is just the beginning. He expects to re...

Egon von Greyerz / November 28, 2019

The gold price is determined in a Casino with massive leverage and has nothing to do with the real price of physical gold. More about that later in the article. At what point will gold turn from a mi...

Egon von Greyerz / November 14, 2019