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With a NASDAQ and S&P 500 (narrowly driven by seven, mega-cap monopoly powers) enjoying a seemingly immortal ride North, all feels eerily normalized in the land of Wall Street Oz. Surfing the S&am...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 31, 2025

Keep big purchases off-market and control the price to which those transactions refer. That has been China’s strategy: No longer! In recent decades, China, which ranks fifth in global silver reserves,...

Alasdair Macleod / August 29, 2025

Fifty-four years ago (August 15, 1971), Nixon took the USD off its gold standard, thereby officially putting the final nail in the Constitutionally mandated concept of US money. But hey, at least the...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 17, 2025

Since the price of gold was freed by the final separation of sovereign currencies from gold following the closure of the gold window on August 15, 1971, gold has experienced three bull markets: in the...

Ronnie Stoeferle / July 27, 2025

Are stablecoins just CBDC by another name? The answer is essentially: Yes. Below we discuss the recent passage of the Genuis Act, the USA’s first national cryptocurrency legislation and address why th...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 23, 2025

The Western World is Already In Recession Subtract budget deficits from national GDPs, and private sector GDPs are shrinking. While government spending is creating more debt, the tax base to pay inter...

Alasdair Macleod / July 20, 2025

We’re pleased to announce that Alasdair Macleod has joined VON GREYERZ as Strategic Advisor. With over 50 years of experience in global markets, monetary history and precious metals, Alasdair’s outloo...

Egon von Greyerz / July 16, 2025

Could a gold revaluation be on Trump’s mind? Below, we consider the options facing a debt-sick America. A Bug Racing for a Windshield As we’ve been warning for years, the US and USD are a bug rapidly...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 13, 2025

Many are wondering if it’s too late to buy gold, that gold has peaked, and they have missed their opportunity. We hope the below series of facts, figures and common-sense reality-checks will put such...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 30, 2025

Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ,  joins VRIC Media founder, Jay Martin, in a compelling conversation about the revolutionary shifts happening in the global financial system—the ramification...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 24, 2025

Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ, joins Thoughtful Money’s Adam Taggart to underscore, in no uncertain terms, that every headline thread—from markets, inflation/deflation and credit risk to...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 19, 2025

Is gold calling out a broken global financial system? One Big…Lie? Earlier this year, I was asked to give my most “heretic” opinion about the global financial system. This was an unusual yet bold ques...

Matthew Piepenburg / June 16, 2025