Nov 5, 2012

The topic du jour in the media this week has been housing affordability or rather unaffordability in New Zealand and especially Auckland. So we couldn’t resist but throw our 2 cents worth into the mix. In case you’d missed it the government has announced they will work to make more land available in Auckland and put a 6 month limit on the council for signing...

Oct 30, 2012

Thoughts from the presenters at the 2012 Gold Symposium in Sydney on how the monetary crisis may end: When 90% of the audience puts their hand up in answer to the question “who owns physical gold or silver?”, there was always going to be an element of “preaching to the converted” at an event titled the Gold Symposium. We intend to outline over the next...

Oct 11, 2012

Everyone Else is Printing Why Shouldn’t We? You’ve no doubt heard the Greens theory announced this week that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) should print money to buy $2 billion dollars worth of Canterbury reconstruction bonds and overseas assets. Their theory being we will restock the Governments Disaster Fund and lower the NZD at the same time. As...

Oct 1, 2012

Last week we took some time to jot down all the reasons we could think of as to why to buy gold.  So it seems only fair that we should give “poor mans gold” the same treatment and so today we look at the question – “Why buy silver?” First up a number of the reasons we mentioned last week to buy gold also hold true as to why to buy silver. These...

Sep 26, 2012

“Gold’s been going up a fair bit but surely it can’t go any higher?” That’s one of the common responses we get when we mention we are involved in selling gold and silver bullion. Unlike a number of years ago the average guy or girl in the street now knows that gold has been rising for a number of years. But – they think because it has been rising...

Sep 18, 2012

What do Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story and Ben Bernanke have in common? “To Infinity and Beyond” is their shared catch phrase it seems. With the US Federal Reserve’s Chairman’s announcement last week of open ended quantitative easing (QE), Jim Sinclair’s (of JSmineset.com) long time call of QE to infinity seems to now be in play. Or as we saw written...

Sep 4, 2012

We posted a somewhat controversial video a couple weeks back of Sandeep Jaitly commenting on what in his opinion were mistakes made by Austrian School economist Von Mises on the Max Keiser show.  He made a number of other comments, the upshot of which was that he resigned from the Gold Standard Institute.  We’ve since read a couple of opinions and didn’t...

Aug 29, 2012

Just under 2 weeks ago we wrote in our weekly newsletter: When Boring (Precious Metals Price Movements) Can be a Good Thing The prices of gold and silver are almost boring at the moment with both trading in very narrow ranges particularly in NZ dollars….  However, we think this boring price action bodes well for the metals. The fact the metals are just...