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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

Topics like bond yields, dollar debates, or yield curves can be admittedly, well, boring. And things like politics can be, well… emotional at best or divisive at worst. Shared Concern Among So Mu...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 16, 2025

For years, we’ve been warning of gold’s critical role as a buffer against increasingly obvious currency risk, banking risk, geopolitical risk and market risk. And for years, we’ve been warning about t...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 9, 2025

When all the euphoria about the election and the Executive Orders is gone, the annoying small problem of the $36 trillion US debt remains – a debt growing exponentially. And also a debt that Tru...

Egon von Greyerz / January 29, 2025

Just three years ago, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the current White House’s Donald Trump openly declared that BTC was a scam. Fast-forward to today, and the Trump administration is promising a BTC “str...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 26, 2025

2024 was an eventful year in politics. Around half of the world’s population was called to the polls for presidential or parliamentary elections. For the first time in the history of Western democraci...

Ronnie Stoeferle / January 19, 2025