WTFinance Currency Crisis As Debt Explodes Out of Control with Matthew Piepenburg
Interview recorded - 17th of April, 2025
On 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 the current state of the economy, tariffs, why all problems lead to debt and liquidity, a complete shift in the world order, collapse of the FIAT currency and more. I hope you enjoy!
0:00 - Introduction
0:57 - What are you seeing in the economy?
8:39 - Tariffs impact on liquidity
20:14 - Complete shift in the world order?
29:49 - Collapse of FIAT currencies
41:14 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?
Matt 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 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.
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