Matt's Publications

Is democracy dying? Pride Cometh Before the Fall Many years ago, the American political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, prematurely declared the victory both of liberal democracy and free-market capitali...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 18, 2024

Political opinions are almost as vast as financial opinions—from bull to bear, or left to right. But there are differences, no? Political opinions, unlike market evaluations, for example, more often l...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 4, 2024

In his latest conversation with the David Lin, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses US political volatility (post-assassination attempt, pre-Biden drop out) and social unrest, with speci...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 25, 2024

Between politics (driven by self rather than public servants), markets (driven by debt rather than profits) and currencies (diluted by over-creation rather than chaperoned by a real asset), it is fair...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 14, 2024

In this extensive interview with Adam Taggart of Thoughtful Money, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses a wide range of market forces impacting investors in an almost surreal 2024 of rat...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 24, 2024

I spend a lot of time tracking the ripple effects of embarrassing and unsustainable debt levels on our credit markets, rate markets, equity bubbles, inflation metrics and, of course, the daily-debasem...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 22, 2024

There is much legitimate (as well as dramatic) talk about the failing US, its debased currency and its identity-fractured/inflation-taxed middle-class which has been increasingly described more aptly...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 9, 2024

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

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

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