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Shifting Monetary Trust – Who Gets In & Who Is Left Out

January 15, 2026

The latest VRIC Media interview with Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ AG, delivers a sober and unflinching assessment of why record gold and silver prices are not the cause of today’s instability, but a clear symptom of it.

As the “horizon of distrust” widens across sovereign bond markets, central bank policy, geopolitics and the fragile confidence underpinning paper assets, capital is seeking refuge in real money. In such an environment, gold and silver are witnessing and signalling a global monetary system entering its late-stage chapter, as traditional price discovery breaks down.

Massive debt expansion, currency debasement, bond-market fragility and geopolitical escalation merge into one clear conclusion: the rising price of physical gold and silver is not a celebration, but a warning.

Looking forward while also heading past lessons and patterns, Piepenburg explains that wealth preservation in the years ahead will depend less on prediction and more on positioning outside consensus.

Watch the full interview to learn why the rising price of gold and silver is not a celebration, but a warning signal.

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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.