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THE MYTH OF MANUFACTURED GOLD

Gold’s 5,000-Year Role

In this presentation, renowned wealth-preservation advocate Egon von Greyerz discusses the enduring role of gold as humanity’s most reliable form of money.

Drawing on thousands of years of monetary history, he contrasts real, physical gold with the “paper money” systems created by modern central banks.

As the founder of VON GREYERZ AG, he emphasizes why tangible assets, especially physical gold, remain essential for protecting wealth amid today’s increasingly fragile financial system.

Using a symbolic illustration of people and gold bars, he highlights the illusion of fabricated wealth and the dangers inherent in debt-driven monetary expansion.

Von Greyerz argues that as global liabilities reach unprecedented levels, traditional banking structures will face severe stress, making physical gold, held outside the financial system, an essential safeguard for preserving long-term wealth.

THE MISLEADING GOLDEN COIN

Gold is up 76% vs. Bitcoin

Only true trust proves itself over 5,000 years

Egon von Greyerz, founder of VON GREYERZ AG, notes that today’s monetary landscape is no longer a contest between innovation and tradition, but a stark confrontation between illusion and reality.

As global debt accelerates and financial systems strain beyond their limits, investors increasingly search for assets capable of surviving an inevitable monetary reset. Bitcoin, despite its popularity, remains a speculative digital construct, while Gold, humanity’s oldest monetary anchor, continues to reveal the structural fragilities of a system built on credit, leverage, and eroding trust.

THE GREAT DEBT MOONSHOT

$3B to $100T — Gradually, Then Suddenly

Egon von Greyerz warns that we are witnessing the final stage of the Western monetary order. What began in 1913 with the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve has now reached its breaking point. The post-1971 world of unlimited credit and fiat expansion has produced an exponential debt spiral: from 3 billion USD in 1930 to 38 trillion today — a 3 million percent increase.

What They Don’t Tell You About a Banking Crisis

Counterparty risk, bail-ins, and BRRD exposure, why gold inside banks isn’t truly yours.

In this discussion, Jonny Haycock speaks with Matt Piepenburg of VON GREYERZ about the often-ignored risks of storing gold within the banking system — from counterparty exposure and rehypothecation to EU bail-in legislation under the BRRD. They explain why genuine wealth protection requires holding metal outside the financial system in sovereign, politically independent jurisdictions such as Switzerland, and examine the broader macro forces — debt, financial repression, and systemic fragility — that continue to drive private, allocated ownership of physical gold.

SILVER'S CATAPULT MOMENTSilver’s decades of suppression have built the pressure for a historic breakout — the first signal of fiat’s final collapse.

Long mocked as the “poor man’s gold,” silver has spent decades under deliberate suppression — pressure that now strains at breaking point.

The $50 mark, long treated as resistance, is no ceiling but a catapult line.

Once breached, it will not merely reprice silver; it will expose the fragility of a paper system living on borrowed time.

As Egon von Greyerz argues in this video, this is not speculation but inevitability — the long-awaited return of honest money, and the first signal that fiat’s long decline is entering its final act.

Middelkoop & Piepenburg: The Great Bluff in Finance

"Cheat to Keep the Game Going” — Cowardice or Necessity? Why Gravity Always Wins

VON GREYERZ AG partner Matthew Piepenburg joins Willem Middelkoop, founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and best-selling author of The Big Reset: War on Gold & the Financial Endgame, in a frank discussion of the broken financial system fueling an openly accelerating gold and silver market.

Raised in foster care as the son of a Swiss physicist, Middelkoop’s early independence shaped his lifelong habit of questioning consensus — a trait that later made him a respected author, fund manager, and advisor to Europe’s OMFIF policy forum. Speaking as the lone sound-money voice among central bankers and academics, Middelkoop challenges the intellectual cowardice behind Western monetary policy and its willful blindness toward precious metals.

Together, Piepenburg and Middelkoop dissect the mounting distrust in fiat currencies, the rise of gold and silver as truth signals, and the troubling shift from global cooperation to confrontation — hallmarks of a financial system in its “beginning of the end.”

The Reborn 1920s: Inside the Global Credit Inferno

Where euphoria reigns, debt explodes, and the next great reckoning looms

In this compelling discussion, Alasdair Macleod joins Matthew Piepenburg to explore the striking parallels between today’s global economy and the:

Speculative frenzy of the 1920s.

Macleod contends that we are living through a reborn Roaring Twenties—an era defined by runaway credit expansion, euphoric markets, and unsustainable faith in central banks.

Unlike the original 1920s, this modern version is borderless: a synchronized, debt-fueled boom spanning every major economy. Together, Macleod and Piepenburg trace how decades of monetary manipulation have created a global credit inferno—one that burns hotter, spreads faster, and threatens a far greater collapse than the crash of 1929.

FRANCE on the Brink: The First Domino

An insider’s perspective: How Macron’s crisis-ridden France could ignite the next global meltdown

Gold continues to soar as global debt hits unprecedented highs. But today’s focus shifts away from the U.S. to France — the EU’s second-largest economy — where political instability, a deepening debt crisis, and growing social unrest are colliding. In just two years, five prime ministers have resigned under Macron’s leadership, the latest being Sébastien Lecornu after less than a month in office. With deficits ballooning, credit downgrades mounting, and the public rejecting austerity, France finds itself trapped in a vicious cycle of debt, unrest, and dwindling political options.

Egon von Greyerz — Founder and Chairman of VON GREYERZ AG — is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on wealth preservation, precious metals, and the fragility of today’s financial system.

In this in-depth discussion with Darryl Payne and Brian Payne of As Good As Gold Australia, Egon expands on what he calls:

The last 1%

The final phase in the long decline of fiat currencies, which have already lost 99% of their value since the United States closed the gold window in 1971.

Together, they examine the exponential rise of global debt, the erosion of purchasing power, and the mounting political and geopolitical instability shaping today’s world. Far from abstract theory, Egon argues this is a cycle that has repeated throughout history.

Every fiat currency eventually collapses, while gold and silver endure as real money and the ultimate form of wealth preservation.

For investors and ordinary savers alike, this is both a warning and a roadmap: as the current monetary era nears its inevitable end, protecting capital with precious metals is no longer optional — it is essential.

Key Insights

* 1:09 – 2:02: Richard Russell’s warning — debt will destroy currencies; only gold and silver will survive.

* 2:08 – 5:37: Every currency in history has gone to zero; gold rises as fiat falls.

* 6:02 – 8:00: Politicians ignore history and truth for reelection; weak leadership marks the end of eras.

* 9:05 – 12:17: Europe’s dependence on Russia/China, NATO weakness, and rising war risk.

* 13:00 – 20:07: Deficits and debt — governments print worthless money, leading to collapse.

* 20:13 – 22:02: Cryptocurrencies are fiat in digital form, unlike gold’s intrinsic value.

* 22:09 – 24:37: Wealth preservation: only gold and silver protect against collapsing markets.

* 25:30 – 31:38: Debasement of currencies guarantees rising gold/silver prices; central banks quietly buying.

* 32:31 – 35:02: China and the East’s cultural tradition of saving in gold contrasts with Western debt culture.

* 36:03 – 39:00: “Be your own bank” — gold and silver stored safely provide independence from collapsing bank

The Hidden Origin of Today’s Market Instability

Every symptom investors face now — from bubbles to weak treasuries — traces back to 1971’s decoupling from gold.

Fifty-four years ago, President Nixon told Americans that suspending the dollar’s link to gold would be a “temporary” measure.

That moment in August 1971 was patient zero for the instability investors face today. The U.S. dollar lost its anchor, politicians gained the freedom to borrow without restraint, and the long cycle of debt, inflation, and currency debasement began.

Fast-forward to 2025, and the symptoms are everywhere: U.S. debt has exploded to $37 trillion, inflation feels higher than the official numbers, stock markets inflate and deflate with every Federal Reserve pivot, and trust in the dollar is eroding as more trade settles outside of it. These aren’t isolated challenges — they are the predictable consequences of a currency unchaperoned by gold.