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.

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