Matt's Publications

Another year is ending, which means it’s time to look back in order to better look forward. For 2025, I see no other realistic option or scenario ahead other than a weaker dollar and rising gold. This...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 31, 2024

In a pre-election trip to DC and the Big Apple, it was clear to everyone with whom I spoke that, “Trump was never gonna win, period.” A month later, he won. These were pretty clever folks, so why were...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 15, 2024

Piepenburg rolls up his sleeves with a blunt assessment of BTC’s so-called “digital gold” slogan, which, based on the very definitional elements of money and the mathematical elements of volatility, c...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 13, 2024

Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, closes out 2024 with a no-holds-barred conversation with Grant Williams of Things That Make You Go Hmmm. Together, they dive into the fallout of the post-Tr...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 4, 2024

Needless to say, Donald Trump recently won the US election, and as JFK Jr. said of this “impolitic” figure, a “revolution” is coming. Depending on one’s politics, such a “revolution” is either music...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 17, 2024

There Are Two Americas… This observation goes beyond the partisan divide of a polarized nation heading toward a polarized election. The deeper, irrevocable rift lies beyond left vs. right. Quite sim...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 27, 2024

VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Nomi Prins with Ted Butler of VRIC Media to separate facts from fiction as to the key themes facing the global financial system, namely: US recession ind...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 3, 2024

Matthew Piepenburg joins Jesse Day of Commodity Culture in a candid conversation on the myriad financial, geopolitical & social forces shaping the future.

Matthew Piepenburg / September 29, 2024

As a polarized U.S. marches toward a political, financial, and perhaps even military crossroads in the closing months 2024, many feel what George Lukas might otherwise describe as a “disturbance in th...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 20, 2024

Left, right or center, our policy makers - from parliaments and executive branches to central banks and think tanks - have taken the world closer to war, immigration disasters, infrastructure failures...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 8, 2024