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2024 – A Year in which Social Tensions Will Deepen further: Anecdotal Evidence of Three Worldviews
In Europe, many countries have been seething since 2015, when the first major wave of refugees reached Germany and Austria in particular. In the US, it was the election of Donald Trump as President in...
Ronnie Stoeferle / January 11, 2024
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More Golden (and Black-Gold) Proof: The Dollar is Totally Screwed
Ever since day-one of the predictably disastrous and politically myopic insanity of weaponizing the world reserve currency against a major power like Russia, we warned that the USD had reached an hist...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 7, 2024
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2024 Markets: The End of a Crappy Year, The Beginning of a Worse One
As my last report for 2023, I wanted to hit the big issues blunt in the face—from debt and sovereign bond markets to themes on the USD, inflation, risk markets and physical gold. This will not be sho...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 17, 2023
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Hope Dies, Gold Rises
The primary stages of grief include: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. When it comes to grieving over the slow demise of the American economy, sovereign IOU/USD and the a...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 3, 2023
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THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM HAS REACHED THE END
The world is now witnessing the end of a currency and financial system which the Chinese already forecast in 1971 after Nixon closed the gold window. Again, remember von Mises words: “There is no mea...
Egon von Greyerz / November 27, 2023
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DC Cancelled Common Sense
It doesn’t require decades of financial expertise to balk at the notion of selling retail air conditioning units in Siberia or lemonade stands in the heart of the Arctic. That is, even a high-school...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 19, 2023
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It’s Time (and Easy) to be Smarter than Our “Leaders”
Below, we consider just how far America has fallen from its founding vision (and something we can do about it).
Matthew Piepenburg / November 5, 2023
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Debt, Currency Debasement & War—The Timeless Pillars of Failure
Below, we follow the breadcrumbs of simple math and bond market signals toward an oft-repeated pattern of how once-great nations become, well…not so great any more.
Matthew Piepenburg / October 22, 2023
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A 1987 CRASH IN STOCKS WITH A GOLDEN DAWN FOR OIL AND GOLD
What a bloody mess! Well, economic collapses and wars always are. But sadly it will become a lot messier! We now have two dangerous wars, maybe we will have a global war. We have a coming collapse o...
Egon von Greyerz / October 16, 2023
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5 Signs that Gold Will increasingly Flow to the East
The reshaping of the world economy and the global (political) order is in full swing. It is a long process, the concrete outcome of which is uncertain in advance and associated with numerous impondera...
Ronnie Stoeferle / October 13, 2023
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