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Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ,  joins VRIC Media founder, Jay Martin, in a compelling conversation about the revolutionary shifts happening in the global financial system—the ramification...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 24, 2025

Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ, joins Thoughtful Money’s Adam Taggart to underscore, in no uncertain terms, that every headline thread—from markets, inflation/deflation and credit risk to...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 19, 2025

Is gold calling out a broken global financial system? One Big…Lie? Earlier this year, I was asked to give my most “heretic” opinion about the global financial system. This was an unusual yet bold ques...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 16, 2025

Is private equity (PE) going dark? And what does this have to do with gold? In fact, the answers are becoming harder to ignore. Understanding gold’s rise in the context of macro-economic forces—i.e.,...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 5, 2025

Many, from Elliott Wave experts to the dollar-hugging faithful, are asking if we are now reaching a moment of “peak gold”? The evidence, and answer, is: No. Our Currency, Our Problem Gold has made mas...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 4, 2025

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...

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

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

Below, we conduct a necessary autopsy on the death of Constitutional money. The Constitution Matters Most of us, myself included, have a favorite lawyer joke (or two), but law school had its shining m...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 1, 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

As we’ve said and written so many times, and as history confirms century after century, and regime after regime, desperate (i.e., debt-cornered) nations do desperate things. And this, by the way, alwa...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 9, 2025

Trump would not be surprised if there is no gold in Fort Knox. There should be 4,600 tons there, at a value of $430 billion.  The U.S. allegedly holds 8,100 tons of gold in Fort Knox, with most r...

Egon von Greyerz / February 26, 2025