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Gold’s Steady Role vs Unsteady Headlines

April 13, 2026

Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, places rapidly changing and admittedly alarming headlines into sober perspective as to gold’s secular direction and role going forward. Focusing purely on the economics (rather than political or military guesswork) of the ever-changing conflict in Iran, Piepenburg briefly describes the competing financial interests of the various parties.

Primarily, this is a war about the dollar, the UST, oil and yes, gold’s larger role. Piepenburg places the conflict into the larger context of US dollar hegemony in particular and hence US global hegemony in general – all of which are at risk. He addresses five key risk factors in the backdrop to this otherwise pivotal geopolitical conflict.

Finally, Piepenburg addresses the various scenarios of a resolved or unresolved conflict, all of which point toward massive gold tailwinds going forward.

Watch the full analysis to understand the forces shaping gold’s future.

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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). His widely respected reports on macro conditions and the changing behaviour of risk assets are published regularly at SignalsMatter.com.