Inflation

It was a tremor that shook the financial markets in the trading days following Liberation Day, when tariffs were imposed on almost every country in the world. One of the big winners was gold. After a...

Ronnie Stoeferle / April 17, 2025

Despite the undeniable ripple effects of the recent tariff measures out of DC, the headlines, as usual, are mostly wrong about the causes of the current market volatility and the longer-term ramificat...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 9, 2025

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

The picture above shows the Bonfire of the Vanities (Falò delle Vanità)in 1497 in Florence. Objects of sin like art, books, cosmetics etc were burnt. Tom Wolfe wrote an excellent book with the same ti...

Egon von Greyerz / March 27, 2025

The inevitable consequence of the current Global Debt Bubble will be the Bankruptcy of the financial system and many of its participants. The one Swiss and three US banks that just went under is just...

Egon von Greyerz / April 16, 2023

“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

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

It is not difficult to understand Cassandra’s enormous frustration. She was given the gift of accurately predicting important events and her curse was that no one would believe her. Some of us are cer...

Egon von Greyerz / July 25, 2019