The Paper Currency System: Open Lies, Open Robbery
Matthew Piepenburg

Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, rejoins Versan & Vandell Aljarrah of the Black Swan Capitalists to unpack the details of a generational wealth transfer unwinding in real-time across global financial markets. In this engaging conversation, Piepenburg places this theme into the broader context of a global debt disfunction leading to a breakdown of the currencies used (debased) to monetize that debt. 

For those measuring, saving or trusting in paper currencies and the “experts” who have mismanaged the same, their wealth is being slowly stolen as they effectively “run up-hill in roller skates” with their fiat paper. Gold, of course, is an obvious antidote to this hard reality.

Piepenburg distinguishes fiat bear markets from gold bull markets and addresses how and why gold has been intentionally downplayed in Wall Street and thus understandably misunderstood by Main Street. Today, however, awareness of currency risk is rising, and hence, gold and silver demand are building exponentially. Piepenburg further explains how inflation has been impacting citizens at unequal levels as part of the wealth transfer introduced above.

The trio then discuss how the speed and scope of skyrocketing prices in the precious metals space are in many ways an alarming indicator of a radically changing global financial and monetary system. Demand for a weaponized world reserve currency is openly falling. Piepenburg sees two areas of dollar risk in the UST market and the petrodollar system.  As for stablecoin “solutions,” they discuss the supreme irony of a “e-coin” issued to enhance dollar and UST demand while the issuers themselves re-invest their stablecoin profits into gold itself…

The conversation turns to examples of open fictions as to the “data” central bankers and national leaders use to buy time, votes and faith in a debased monetary system that is little more than open robbery being hidden by increasing signs of digitalized centralization. Piepenburg also discusses the profound disconnect between ripping markets and struggling economies.

Matthew Piepenburg, Commercial Director at Matterhorn Asset Management and co-founder of SignalsMatter.com, has extensive experience in alternative investments, law, and finance, with particular expertise in managed futures, credit and equity investing. He also has years of experience researching, evaluating and investing in alternative investments: hedge funds, private equity vehicles, VC and real estate. Matthew Piepenburg's skills include asset allocation, portfolio management and macro economic analysis. He has written numerous white papers on the long-term distortions of central bank policies here and abroad. He has guest lectured at numerous family office forums, law firms and universities, including Georgetown, Brown, Harvard and Cal State. Matthew Piepenburg is also a published author and regular contributor to The Good Men Project and the author of the Amazon No1 New Release “Rigged to Fail,” which bluntly details the systemic and structural flaws behind central-bank distorted capital markets. 

All of these combined monetary distortions are directly responsible for the staggering level of currency debasement ignored in plain sight by a majority of policy makers and investors, which is why Matthew is committed to informing of, as well as addressing solutions to, these systemic fault-lines in the global system. Toward this end, all rivers flow toward precious metals as currency insurance (hence Matterhorn role in Zurich) as well as sober yet actively managed portfolio construction (hence the SignalsMatter service). 

 

 

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