Governments

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

Since the Great Financial Crisis started in 2006, global debt has more than doubled from $125 trillion to $260 trillion. The more money that has been printed, the lower interest rates have gone. In 2...

Egon von Greyerz / December 19, 2019

In the long history of governments and central banks deceiving the people, August 15,1971 was just another date in the calendar. Throughout history, the ruling elite has always cheated the people. But...

Egon von Greyerz / December 4, 2019

Is a Marxist government soon going to rule the UK. The UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his election campaign and set out his Marxist policies. The UK has been ungovernable since 2017, with...

Egon von Greyerz / November 7, 2019

“BREXIT, is in the last innings, UK will get out” - This is how Egon von Greyerz starts the interview with Eric King of King World News. Egon goes on to say that in the long run the EU w...

Egon von Greyerz / October 18, 2019

“Sic Transit Gloria Mundi” (Thus passes the glory of the world). This phrase was used at the papal coronations between the early 1400s and 1963. It was meant to indicate the transitory or ephem...

Egon von Greyerz / October 17, 2019

There will in the next couple of years be a real Eureka moment in markets. But it is unlikely to be of the same satisfactory nature as in the case of Archimedes. The Greek mathematician and scientist...

Egon von Greyerz / October 11, 2019

What is history’s greatest illusion? Is it the Indian Rope Trick or is it performed by Houdini or maybe David Copperfield. No, this is an illusion which is so big that the whole world has fallen for...

Egon von Greyerz / September 11, 2019

The world is now standing before a seminal moment and virtually nobody can see it. There has not been a more critical moment in the last 50 years than what we are now facing. In 1971, the world faced...

Egon von Greyerz / August 29, 2019

The messages from the ECB and the Fed couldn’t be clearer. They are seeing major problems in the financial system and in the world economy and they will do whatever it takes to save the system. But th...

Egon von Greyerz / August 1, 2019