Matt's Publications

Is America Losing?
Below, we soberly assess the lessons of history and math against the current realities of a debt-defined America to ask and answer a painful yet critical question: Is America losing?
Matthew Piepenburg / May 19, 2024
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Sober Gold vs. The Rate Cut Circus Show
Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine.
Matthew Piepenburg / May 5, 2024
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The Tragic Ripple Effects of Historically Unsustainable Debt
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins John Buttler (Southbank Research) and David Lin in a spirited discussion on the omni-present yet undeniably important theme of the USD and its historical...
Matthew Piepenburg / April 17, 2024
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Why Is Gold Rising Now, Where Is It Headed Tomorrow?
Needless to say, we at VON GREYERZ spend a good deal of time thinking about, well… gold. Year after year, and week after week, there is always a new way to examine gold price moves and decipher the o...
Matthew Piepenburg / April 14, 2024
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The Implications of Fatal Debt? Expect More Lies
If you want to understand the direction of debt, rates, the USD, inflation, risk asset markets, gold and the US endgame, it might be better not to listen to the experts. In fact, Johny Cash is a far...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 31, 2024
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Modern “Leadership”: A Perfect Blend of Delusion, Dishonesty & Distraction
As is historically typical of all corrupted and objectively bankrupt nations, the truth is often as hard to find as an honest man in parliament.
Matthew Piepenburg / March 10, 2024
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Gold’s Historic Rise as the S&P Teeters Toward Mean-Reverting Pain
In this engaging, 30-minute conversation, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with Liberty Finance’s Elijah Johnson to discuss Gold’s recent surpassing of the 2100 (USD) marker in the b...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 6, 2024
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What’s Next When Policy Makers Can’t Hide Their Sins?
It’s almost comical to watch policy makers of all stripes and country codes caught in a corner yet pretending we don’t notice. Again: It’s almost comical. But there’s really nothing funny at all abo...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 25, 2024
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Gold: How DC Screwed You, and Now Itself
The French poet, Arthur Rimbaud famously wrote that “Nothing is true.” Hmmm. Fairly sensational, no? Deciphering the nuance behind such poetic phrases is almost as difficult as deciphering the mean...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 11, 2024
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The US Is Living on Borrowed Time
In late December, I published a final report on the themes of 2023 while looking ahead at their implications for the year to come. I repeated my claim that debt markets and debt levels made the futur...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 26, 2024
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