The news he is talking about is legit.
CBDC's linked with gold is something i write here already for years.
He says it will be minmum 15% linked.
He mentions
IMF like i did and based on his comments he suggests a price of minimum $15k per ounce if CBDC's are linked to gold by 15%.
I don't agree with this number because he took a wrong total fiat number which is in reality way higher.
He probably like many others are known for being gold bullish for a long time but many of these people were bullish on gold when Nato/BRICS had a big econamical fight in 2011-2013 where it looked a financial doom will happen which big majority of people are not even aware of.
US/Nato at the end admitted to step away from an unipolar monetary system to a tri polar monetary system which implementation you are currently witnessing.
Doesn't mean that the risk in 2012-2013 of a systematical crash wasn't real with to major groups fighting each other and noone willing to step away from their goal
Of course i don't know Piepenburg but i saw many of good gold econemists being blamed till today that the financial crash didn't happened in 2013.
But they are only able to blame them because they have no knowledge how close we were in that time for a systematical crash and the USA would never step away from their major plan wouldn't it be so critical at that time to lose all control as BRICS were ready to go to the end.
Remember for russia and
china it either means to survive or go fully down when giving up.There is no retreat for them