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Gold vs. An Openly Rigged & Failing Financial System

November 26, 2025

Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ AG, joins GoldRepublic Global’s Alexi Jordanov in Zurich, Switzerland. Here, we enjoy another refreshingly blunt look at the risks and opportunities for investors navigating a global financial system already teetering on the edge of a grossly mismanaged debt (and hence currency) crisis for which gold is a historically confirmed antidote.

Piepenburg opens with a necessary look backwards in order to better look forward. He takes a critical look at the otherwise intentionally overlooked plumbing of a quietly rigged central banking system in general and the Federal Reserve in particular. He then takes an equally critical look at current derivative market risks, which are 10X the size of the pre-GFC levels that brought markets to their knees in 2008.

All of the ignored lessons and risks of yesterday inform a deeper understanding of today and tomorrow. Piepenburg addresses why gold’s bull market has just begun and why debating price moves or potential pull-backs near-term grossly misses the longer-term (and essential) role of gold. And he makes this role perfectly clear as a strategic preservation asset in a world already witnessing a credit and currency crisis unfolding in real-time.

In this informative discussion, Piepenburg further unpacks investor concerns regarding future “resets,” increasing centralisation via Stablecoin and CBDC magic tricks, and sober ways informed investors can self-protect themselves from monetary forces devolving into open sight toward radical changes now and to come.

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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.