Repo Shark Fins & Nervous Banks vs. A Golden Life Raft

Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ AG, joins Liberty & Finance’s Elijah Johnson to put a number of key headlines (from “peak gold” and banking risk to inflationary theft) into clearer perspective.

Piepenburg explains how understanding the problem is key to carrying conviction regarding the solution. In terms of gold, its long-term direction can be confidently understood once one recognizes its critical role (and solution), as a now globally preferred strategic reserve asset over a dollar suffering from the problem of debasement to monetize now unsustainable debt. Gold and silver are monetary metals rising within the context of a failed fiat monetary system. Precious metals and their “bull market” are therefore entirely different than traditional bull markets in typical risk assets. In short, physical gold is rising because a global (and paper) monetary system is falling.

Piepenburg then addresses (and simplifies) the liquidity signals coming out of the US repo markets and ties these signals toward secularly rising gold and silver pricing. The repo markets are revealing drying liquidity warning lights as well as rising counterparty distrust among the larger banks. Such signals have massive ramifications on market, inflation and hence currency risks now and going forward.

Piepenburg explains the foregoing risks within the context of the key theme of inflation, the importance (and hidden tax) of which he can’t understate enough. The conversation turns to banking risks and the fine line between bank bailouts and currency-debasing bailouts.

Get the strategic context institutions are slow to admit. Watch now to learn why bonds-to-gold rotation risk is real, liquidity is tight, and tangible metal may be the only honest life raft left.

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