Fiat Money

Bulls are not killed off easily, They are strong, fierce and have real staying power. And this is what should be expected at a top of a secular bull market. Injured or weakened, the bull will still go...

Egon von Greyerz / October 26, 2018

With global investment markets standing at crossroads, investors have the option to lose it all or to benefit from the biggest wealth transfer in history. I have quoted this passage from Shakespeare’s...

Egon von Greyerz / September 27, 2018

Will this be the Fall of Falls. 10 years after the Lehman collapse, will we again have an Autumn of Shocks in financial markets? The odds are very high! Overstretched stock markets look extremely vuln...

Egon von Greyerz / September 20, 2018

Embrace uncertainty - Anyone who doesn’t follow this momentous maxim in coming years is likely to get one unpleasant shock after the next. Because the stable progression of the world economy si...

Egon von Greyerz / August 8, 2018

“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.”
- Solomon
This is the story about Debtor, a newborn American baby. Debtor has just been born into the gre...

Egon von Greyerz / July 13, 2018

In 1980, global assets, including property, were less than $20 trillion. Today almost 40 years later they have grown to $524 trillion. That is a compound annual growth rate of 9% which is quite remark...

Egon von Greyerz / June 1, 2018

It can’t happen here! What is happening in Venezuela and Argentina cannot occur in Western economies. That’s at least what markets believe with stocks and most bubble assets remaining in cloud cuckoo...

Egon von Greyerz / May 10, 2018

Strategic investments are made for the long run and with no intent of short term gains or concern of short term fluctuations. This kind of investing is based on buying undervalued and unloved assets a...

Egon von Greyerz / May 3, 2018

The coming hyperinflation will start slowly and few people will realise what is coming. But once the first real inflation signals are appearing, the process will speed up fast as the currency debaseme...

Egon von Greyerz / April 27, 2018

The super powers in the West are doing what they can to provoke Russia and indirectly China and Iran into a world war. Most people alive today were not adults when WWII started and therefore did not f...

Egon von Greyerz / April 19, 2018

As the world is standing on the precipice of a total breakdown, both economically and geopolitically, an obvious question is: “Where is the money coming from” to save the world from perdition. The sa...

Egon von Greyerz / April 12, 2018

Between today and 2025, the world will be a very different place. We can learn nothing about the next 4 to 7 years from government, central bank or media propaganda as they neither understand what wil...

Egon von Greyerz / April 5, 2018