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Fact checking politicos, headlines and central bankers is one thing. Putting their “facts” into context is another. Toward that end, it’s critical to place so-called “economic growth,” Treasury market...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 21, 2021

Given the increasingly politicized interplay (cancer) of central bank policy and so-called free market price discovery, it’s becoming increasingly more important to track the actions of central banker...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 14, 2021

History is a funny thing, almost as funny as human nature. The policy makers, including their latest meme of “transitory inflation,” are no exception to such psychological tragi-comedy. In short, we d...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 7, 2021

Sensationalism, like central bankers and policy makers, has many faces, views and voices. This may explain why so many want to hold their ears, hug their knees and beg the heavens for a beacon of guid...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 30, 2021

Below we look at the dark corner in which the Fed has placed themselves and investors: A one-way path toward tanking markets or crippling inflation. Alas: Pick your poison. For us, the antidote is as...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 24, 2021

We’ve written elsewhere about the ironic over-use of logic to justify otherwise illogical biases. As Swiss-based precious metals professionals who see physical gold and silver as currency protection...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 17, 2021

Psychologists, poets and philosophers have written for centuries that many who have eyes refuse to see, and many who can think, refuse to think clearly--all for the simple reason that some truths, lik...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 10, 2021

Recently, my colleague, Egon von Greyerz, and I had some unabashed yet blunt fun calling out the staggering levels of open hypocrisy and policy desperation unleashed by former Fed Chairman, Alan Green...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 1, 2021

Below, we consider two well-known names in modern markets, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, and current value investing legend, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO Investment Strategies. Years ago,...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 24, 2021

Upton Sinclair famously observed that, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” After decades navigating among Wall Street sell-side...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 19, 2021