Matt's Publications

Over the years I’ve written almost ad nauseum about the crazy I see (and saw) around me as a fund manager, family office principal and individual investor. The list includes

Matthew Piepenburg / March 27, 2021

We certainly live in interesting times. Yet be you bear or bull, left or right, optimist, cynic or pessimist, one would be hard pressed to pretend that anything is, well, normal.

Matthew Piepenburg / March 20, 2021

In our own recent reports (and frankly any report) addressing the topic of precious metals, we confronted inflation topics, including, its many tailwinds. One critical tailwind for rising inflation i...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 18, 2021

Worried about gold sentiment? Don’t be. The mainstream view of gold right now is an open yawn, and sentiment indicators for this precious metal are now at 3-year lows despite the gold highs of last Au...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 15, 2021

For quite some time we have been warning about the rising shark fin of rising yields and rates. As of this writing, one can almost hear John Williams’ orchestral theme song to Jaws ringing in the ear...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 12, 2021

Despite a penchant for double-speak that would make a politician blush, the Fed tells us that its primary focus is unemployment not inflation. Let me remind readers, however, that an openly nervous Mr...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 9, 2021

I’ve often joked that fretting over delusional price moves in individual stock names in a market Twilight Zone is akin to fretting over the desert choices on the Titanic’s dinner menu.

Matthew Piepenburg / March 1, 2021

Just over four years ago, as Bitcoin was making its first big moves in both price and public perception, John Hussman of Hussman Investment Trust penned a lengthy as well as seminal report entitled, “...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 22, 2021

Oft sind es die unerwarteten Quellen, die uns Markteinblicke gewähren. Einer der populärsten, ja innig geliebten Harvard-Professoren war beispielsweise kein Ökonom, sondern der brillante (und somit a...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 14, 2021

Regardless of one’s politics, most would agree that extremely complex issues are typically given extremely misleading titles. Not all those of the extreme left, for example, are all that “woke” and no...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 12, 2021