Strong Economy Narrative Is Farcical! with Matthew Piepenburg
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Interview recorded -1st of April, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Matthew Piepenburg. Matthew is a Partner of Von Greyerz AG.During our conversation we spoke about what is currently happening in the economy, why speculators are the only ones making money, no alternative to the US Dollar, Financial repression, wealth divide and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:45 - What is currently happening in the economy?5:57 - Debt owned by bottom 50%13:25 - Speculators the only ones making the money?18:22 - No alternative to the US Dollar28:22 - Strong US Dollar moving forward in short-term?33:23 - Potential for Financial Repression?37:33 - Is there away out of the current crisis?40:19 - How do you get rid of the wealth divide?45:00 - Last question to takeaway from podcast?Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001Thereafter, 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 most reliable and longer-term protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join VON GREYERZ.The author of the Amazon No#1 Release, Rigged to Fail, Matt is fluent in French, German and English; he is a graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD). Along with Egon von Greyerz, Matthew is the co-author of Gold Matters, which offers an extensive examination of gold as an historically-confirmed wealth-preservation asset.Matthew Piepenburg - LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/matthewpiepenburgWebsite - https://vongreyerz.gold/WTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas