This week in our musings, we have some thoughts of our own – and thoughts of others that we have found interesting…. The opening headline in this week’s NZ Sunday Star*Times Business section reads “Gold Production heads to $1b”. It seems that gold is starting to attract mainstream attention, even in New Zealand. Over the page, in Rod Oram’s piece, we...

Feb 4, 2010

We know we’re not part of Australia – even if the rest of the world doesn’t – but we’ve posted this article under the “New Zealand Articles” heading, as where the Aussie housing market goes generally so does ours.  It also discusses the NZ housing market in terms of affordability or rather it’s unaffordability. ...

  This week in our musings, we have some thoughts of our own – and thoughts of others that we have found interesting….   Last week and earlier saw the precious metals paper market correction continue.  Please note that this is the supposed paper market tail wagging the physical market dog. The physical market remains in high demand and short supply. The...

Weekly Wanderings 21 October 2009 This week the US dollar carry trade, gold and scary charts!…  Each week over at MaxKeiser.com, Max and Stacy present a radio show entitled “The Truth about Markets”. There are at least two variants of the show, with one slanted towards Christchurch (New Zealand) listeners. In this WW, I summarize the points discussed this...

Is there an Australian in the house?  Today, yes there is.  For any of our Australian brethren reading we feature some thoughts from one of your countrymen.  Steve Keen was one of the very few academic economists worldwide that predicted the current debt fueled financial crisis as far back as 2005.  He writes regularly on his blog here. He gives his...