WTFinance, Released on 4/15/26 (Recorded on 4/13/26)

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Matthew Piepenburg. Matthew Piepenburg is Partner at Von Greyerz, author of Rigged to Fail, and co-author of Gold Matters — a comprehensive examination of gold as a historically confirmed wealth preservation asset. He began his career as a transactional attorney, launched a hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble, and has worked across family offices and Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform before dedicating his work to precious metals and monetary risk. During our conversation we spoke about the current geopolitical situation, the dollar system fracturing, central banks losing control, golds continuous rise and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 – Introduction
3:18 – Geopolitical overview
8:40 – Dollar system fracturing?
20:34 – Central banks losing control?
24:07 – Gold rise to continue
32:43 – Central Bankers selling gold
38:34 – Cash settlement of gold
41:18 – Paper vs physical
49:09 – One message to takeaway?

Matthew Piepenburg began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001. Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the best protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join Matterhorn Asset Management. Read Piepenburg’s writings here: https://vongreyerz.gold/author/matthew-piepenburg…

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