Matt's Publications

As usual, the end game will boil down to yield curve controls and more money printing, which means more currency debasement and a central bank system that secretly (and historically) favors inflation...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 22, 2022

As central bankers play checkers on a global debt chessboard, we see below how policy hypocrisy, worsening monetary options, failed diplomacy, tanking bonds, rising rates, debt addiction, mismanaged s...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 13, 2022

Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio to discuss the seismic shifts in the global financial system now emerging in the wake of Russian sanctions and the implications...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 1, 2022

Debt destroys nations, financial systems, markets, and currencies. Always and every time. The inflationary financial system is now failing because its debt levels have rendered it impotent to grow eco...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 30, 2022

As the world focused keenly on Ukraine, few noticed the extent and magnitude to which the entire world financial system changed overnight. The consequences of this titanic shift are difficult to overs...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 16, 2022

Taken as a whole, all the chest puffing—from Boris to Biden—ignore the colder realities of the USD’s teetering reserve status, oil market realism (and inflation), Sino-Russian chess skills and record-...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 2, 2022

One of gold’s many attributes is its historical honesty, and as far as we see it, as gold rises, it calls “BS” on the recent tough-talk from on high. Markets, for example, expected gold to fall hundre...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 18, 2022

Although it may seem refreshing to see folks at Goldman or Bridgewater taking public swings at the Fed, it’s far too little and far too late. The warnings they are making today are the very same we’ve...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 2, 2022

The Fed is handing us more inflation, rising rates, tanking bonds, a nervous equity market and a stagnating economy. Things will likely get emotional in 2022, for even the hawks are offering too littl...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 20, 2022

As the United States rolls into 2022, the tradition of American exceptionalism looks exceptionally untenable. With the inflation backing the Fed into a corner and geopolitical challenges mounting abro...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 3, 2022