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Gold Matters: Real Solutions To Surreal Risks Kindle Edition
Two highly respected global authorities in macro-economic risk and precious metal investing, Egon
von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, have co-authored a much-needed examination of gold as an
essential wealth preservation asset in a modern setting of unprecedented financial risk. Never before
have financial systems been stretched this dangerously thin. Never before have investors faced a
future of such epic change demanding immediate solutions.
Von Greyerz and Piepenburg provide a clear, blunt yet fact-based case for significant and pending
wealth destruction arising form a global convergence of historically unprecedented debt, market,
currency and banking risk. Rather than sensationally assert such warnings, the authors of Gold
Matters carefully examine each of these financial fault-lines with simple and graph-supported facts
rather than dramatic declarations.
Von Greyerz and Piepenburg open with an objective, reader-friendly yet largely ignored history of
central bank and sovereign mismanagement of international monetary and fiscal policies,
characterized today by the reckless expansion of the broad money supply to address unsustainable
(as well as unprecedented) debt levels. Such distorted yet consistent policy errors (i.e., solving a
record-breaking debt crisis with more debt) have led to the largest risk asset bubbles (stocks, bonds,
property) ever recorded in the history of capital markets.
As history reminds: All bubbles pop, but the interim (and artificially stimulated) euphoria and extreme
inflation of risk asset pricing placed the majority of retail investors into a dangerous and false
complacency. Wall Street pundits, cornered policy makers and an increasingly discredited financial
media have deliberately ignored and/or downplayed the fatal patterns and consequences of such
desperate money creation to pay for equally desperate debt expansion, namely: The inevitable
arrival of wealth destroying inflation, serial market implosions, social fracturing and the classic
debasement of the currencies by which uninformed investors otherwise measure their accumulated
wealth. In short, as currencies weaken, so does wealth.
Physical gold, often misunderstood as a “barbarous relic” of the past, is revealed in Gold Matters as
an essential real asset in this distorted modern backdrop. With the calm of two market veterans
sharing over 70 combined years of experience at the highest levels of enterprise management,
global banking, hedge fund, and wealth management circles, von Greyerz and Piepenburg bring
much-needed candor, expertise and perspective in identifying the obvious challenges investors face.
As importantly, they offer equally obvious solutions. As Zurich-based principals to the world’s largest
private wealth management enterprise for ultra-affluent gold investors outside of the commercial
banking system, their experienced critique of, and solutions to, this broken financial system are
based on objective facts rather than subjective theory or bias.
Their deep understanding of precious metal solutions, hitherto reserved for only the world’s most
affluent, are now shared openly for all investors seeking to be informed and prepared rather than
anxious and uncertain. With great crisis comes great opportunity, and despite the clear risks and
struggles ahead, Gold Matters offers a sane and clear path to wealth generation and preservation in
an otherwise volatile future setting marked by increasing wealth destruction and profound systemic
change.
If such themes, facts and solutions speak to your own instincts and interests, please scroll above
and hit “buy now” to become a more informed—and hence prepared--investor.
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LanguageEnglish
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Publication dateMay 2, 2022
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File size4790 KB
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- ASIN : B09ZFCZNVD
- Publisher : Egon von Greyerz & Matthew Piepenburg (May 2, 2022)
- Publication date : May 2, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 4790 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 394 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0578288397
- Best Sellers Rank: #322,689 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
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I grew up as a Swedish/Swiss dual-national, educated primarily in Sweden. After an early career in Swiss banking, I spent 17 years as the Finance Director and Executive Vice-Chairman of Dixons, a FTSE 100 company which grew from a small photographic retailer into the largest consumer electronics retailer in the UK. Thereafter, I founded Matterhorn Asset Management, AG (MAM), the world’s largest enterprise for direct ownership of precious metals outside of the commercial banking system. When not managing MAM, I mostly enjoy the wealth that can’t be measured, namely time with my family, close friends, music, books and nature.
Check out these videos to learn more:
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After a brief career in corporate law, I founded my first hedge fund during the dot.com bubble of the late 90’s before transitioning to the management of that wealth as a general counsel, and then later CIO and Managing director of a single and multi-family office. Living between Europe and the US, I am an active principal at the Swiss-based Matterhorn Asset Management, AG and write and speak regularly around the world on market risk and wealth preservation. When not tracking markets, my guiding joys are a beautiful family as well as a string of horses and a loyal Labrador.
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Great read if you are interested in learning about gold or if you are worried about the economy and what you should do to preserve your wealth.
This book is the best, most bookshelf reference I have.
Political leaders, Federal reserve bank heads and wall street leaders have mislead the common man for decades and the system is very fragile today.
Gold Matters describes, in easy to read language, just how this happened and what you can do to protect yourself today.
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Continuem nos presenteando com a vossa Arte.
Obrigada pelo vosso tempo.
This resulted in the necessity of steadlily lowering interest rates, in order to be able to service payments.
Eventually, politicians and central banks maneuvered the system to a point, which can plainly be described as a "lose - lose" situation.
If interest rates are raised sufficiently to reduce inflation, a heavy depression with market crashes and high unemployment will result.
If interest rates remain at low levels, inflation will persue, with more decline of the pater currencies.
The latter seems to be the favored of the two way conundrum, since, by an effect called "financial repression", it inflaties away and thus reduces governmental debt. As a sideeffect, it distracts from the responsible persons in power, since the effects of inflation appear time deferred.
Now, what is the investment solution in times of crashing markets, high inflation and delutionary speech of politicians. Well, the title of the book already provides a hint. Gold has been a protector of wealth for thousands of years. It should not be consideres a speculative investment, but rather a store of wealth in turbulent times, which preserved value over generations.
Anyone who is familiar with the articles of the authors, will not find much news in this book.
The volume of it, could have been easily downsized, due to the continous repetiton of expressions like "money debasement", "distorted and desperate central banks", "creating money out of thin air", rigged to fail markets", or "mouseclick money", which can be found in each chapter, while omitting how money is created by a mousclick and how it can appear on a balance sheet. What ist the accounting entry on the aktiva?
This infinite loop of repetition together with a creation of long sentences, often with messages in brackets, does not contribute to a pleasure of reading. Also the graphs included are bearly discernable.
An emperic change in our finacial system lies ahead, which will influence the foundation of everybodys captial expediture. Anyone who is looking for a revealing literature in a "blunt" language, will be served with this book.