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With inflation surging, shortages crippling the world, and business outlook tanking, it's time to ask whether we are headed for recession. All the signs point to a resounding answer of YES, but what w...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 22, 2021

Is Biden the president that played his fiddle while the US burned? As shortages, stagflation, and wealth inequality wreak havoc on an already divided United States, lawmakers focus on vaccine mandates...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 13, 2021

With each day bringing new signs of inflation and rates becoming more deeply negative, it's time to confront reality: The US is declaring a hidden bankruptcy. Its debts cannot be serviced, and markets...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 1, 2021

In an environment where it seems every asset is reaching record highs and inflation is rampant, it is reasonable to ask: Why isn't gold absolutely ripping? The answer is complex, but be assured--pati...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 23, 2021

In an economy of negative-yielding debt, high inflation, plummeting consumer confidence, and a crumbling culture, only one fact is certain: Nothing is real. Math can be disregarded, and numbers don't...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 14, 2021

In the post-pandemic world, signs of the death of paper money are everywhere, but the deeper one looks, the more evident and painfully predictable it becomes. Central banks are backed into a corner, a...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 2, 2021

Mountains of cash have been printed during the pandemic in the form of fiscal and monetary stimulus. Despite all the talk of public health and safety, these bailouts are about reanimating our sick and...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 27, 2021

Far from being the result of a jobs report or expected Fed rate hikes, Monday's "flash crash" in the gold market was a deliberate and orchestrated manipulation of the markets, kneecapping gold like a...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 13, 2021

Recent movements in gold markets, comments by former Vice Chair of the Fed Stanley Fischer, and moves toward Central Bank Digital Currencies show a glimpse into the minds of central bankers and offer...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 9, 2021

The Federal Reserve, we are told, is "independent" from political pressures and forces. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Fed is increasingly another branch of the White house, and our econ...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 30, 2021