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The current debt and asset deflation will not lead to a Japanese 1990’s  style deflationary period. It is more likely to lead to hyperinflation in the US, the UK and many other countries. H...

Egon von Greyerz / August 3, 2009

The Dark Years are here In this newsletter we will outline what is likely to be the devastating effect of the credit bubbles, government money printing and of the disastrous actions that governments a...

Egon von Greyerz / July 14, 2009

The only reason why there has been an air of optimism in the world economy in the last couple of months is that the bearers of these false rumours of recovery all have a vested interest. They are eith...

Egon von Greyerz / June 26, 2009

No green shoots There are no green shoots. Every single piece of economic and market news we observe confirms our view that the current optimism in the world economy is purely based on sentiment and n...

Egon von Greyerz / June 19, 2009

Take the following ingredients: A banking system which is on the verge of collapse Add a few $ trillion of government liquidity and guarantees Inject $ 100’s of billions in loans and capital Kee...

Egon von Greyerz / June 12, 2009

“Don’t tell me what to buy, but tell me when to buy”! Back in 2002 we told investors to buy physical gold for up to 50% of their liquid assets. Since then gold is up between 220% and...

Egon von Greyerz / May 28, 2009

We have told investors that the rating of US and UK sovereign debt is a farce and that they both will be downgraded. Today the UK is on its way to joining the PIGS countries as Standard and Poor’...

Egon von Greyerz / May 21, 2009

Or, we could say  “Goodbye Paper Money  – Hello Real Money”. We have for some time warned investors that the era of the dollar as a reserve currency is coming to an end soo...

Egon von Greyerz / May 13, 2009

Gold outperformed most assets in the first quarter of 2009. On the Matterhorn Asset Management website the  Gold charts pages show that  gold gained between 4% and 7% against major currencies  in Q1 2...

Egon von Greyerz / April 9, 2009

Gordon Brown has really surpassed himself in creative alchemy. He has turned $100 billion of G20 new commitments into $5 trillion of air! Take $100 billion of committed new money, add $500 billion of...

Egon von Greyerz / April 3, 2009