Matt's Publications

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

The 2008 crisis (bubble) was limited to real estate; today, we are in an everything bubble, from meme stocks, inflated bonds and over-priced housing to bloated art, over-paid celebrity chefs and pricy...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 7, 2022

As we have warned from the very onset of this otherwise avoidable war in Ukraine, the backfiring of Western sanctions against Putin (de-dollarization, inflationary tailwinds and increasingly discredit...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 24, 2022

Everything, including money, is politically-self-serving rather than economically free-market. Capitalism is dead. The folks in office to “save you” are mostly interested in saving their positions and...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 11, 2022

As usual, the end game will boil down to yield curve controls and more money printing, which means more currency debasement and a central bank system that secretly (and historically) favors inflation...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 22, 2022

As central bankers play checkers on a global debt chessboard, we see below how policy hypocrisy, worsening monetary options, failed diplomacy, tanking bonds, rising rates, debt addiction, mismanaged s...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 13, 2022