Matt's Publications

We consider the State of California as the metaphor of a failed state as well as the failing state of the American Union, which is anything but a dream.

Matthew Piepenburg / March 8, 2023

Regardless of what Powell says today, the real play is 3 to 4 moves ahead, which all point toward an inevitably weaker USD and thus an inevitably rising gold price. Powell, of course, is more politic...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 22, 2023

With inflation ripping and war blazing, many still argue that gold did not do enough. Hmmm… But gold in every currency but the USD (see above) would beg to differ. Furthermore, and as argued so man...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 8, 2023

Most investors, sensing a recession, are doing what most investors typically do in bad times: Make bad choices. Key among these bad choices is the traditional flight to long-dated US Treasuries as a...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 1, 2023

The slow but steady implosion of global bond markets is no longer a debate but fact. Knowing this, investors can better brace themselves for the policy and market reactions to come. Here, we once aga...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 18, 2023

When broken, debt-soaked “developed economies” suffering from years of fantasy money printing to “solve” fatally rising debt levels collide with history-blind and economically-ignorant policy makers,...

Matthew Piepenburg / January 4, 2023

History (whether on battle fields or sports fields) is riddled with tragi-comical examples of human blundering (and hubris) in the face of otherwise obvious and self-inflicted risk—you know: The final...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 21, 2022

It’s hard to imagine how we ever got to this obvious consequence of too much debt and too much artificial, centralized “capitalism.” Were policy makers sinister (i.e., intentionally creating a red ca...

Matthew Piepenburg / December 7, 2022

The media-ignored levels of open fraud and inflationary currency debasement which passes daily for monetary policy (namely monetizing trillions of sovereign debt with trillions of mouse-clicked Dollar...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 23, 2022

From polo to hockey—it’s a known fact that the best players think three moves ahead. Sadly, the same can’t be said of our financial elites… But as playing conditions deteriorate across the bond, sto...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 9, 2022