Matt's Publications

The yield on the 10Y UST is known by most investors to represent the real cost of capital/borrowing. In short, it is the most important yield in the world, as it prices the cost of the world’s reserv...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 4, 2022

Despite all the fake, real, twisted, straight or bent words, facts and policies emerging today, the West in general and the US in particular cannot escape the natural laws of debt nor the hard realiti...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 21, 2022

Powell’s so-called “war against inflation” will fail, but not before crushing everything from risk asset, precious metal and currency pricing to the USD. As importantly, Powell is accelerating global...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 6, 2022

Despite Western attempts to flex its currency muscle via USD-driven sanctions, nations like Russia and China are now leading the charge from a one-currency world to a multi-currency world of import pa...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 23, 2022

Is DC creating an intentional class of American lords and serfs, in which the former hand out stimulus checks to prevent the later from reaching for pitch forks? As we learned in the Europe of the 19...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 10, 2022

Given the evidence, the US is heading straight into a recession and will be forced to confront that reality (however downplayed or officially postponed) by cranking out the mouse-click money in a way...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 3, 2022

Current market forces collectively, historically, empirically and common-sensically point toward new highs for gold, whose bull market, which began to stretch its legs after the 2016 bottom of $1050,...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 26, 2022

With global debt at $300T+, and combined U.S. corporate, household and public debt well past $90T, the Fed’s “face-saving” attempt to raise rates as a weapon against 9% reported CPI inflation is a fai...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 19, 2022

The current and open fraud regarding the paper gold price in the COMEX market is now as plain to see as the open desperation in the global financial system, which is unraveling in real-time all around...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 11, 2022

Whether we wish to admit it or not, the so-called “Developed Economies” in the U.S., Europe and Japan are really nothing more than debt-broke economies, veritable banana republics. This means their e...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 6, 2022