Apr 3, 2012

There is certainly plenty of negative sentiment around about gold (and silver) at present.  At the very least it seems many are sitting on the fence expecting it to fall further.  The below video from J.S. Kim of SmartknowledgeU debunks a number of the myths that are trotted out every time gold reaches a new dollar high as it did last year.  The odds are...

Mar 30, 2012

First up a warning if you are somewhat new to the realm of gold.  The following is a fairly advanced article by monetary scientist Antal Fekete and we have to admit we needed to read it a couple of times in a quiet place to digest it all!  However wrapped up in this article are a number of principles that Professor Fekete has covered previously in stand alone...

Mar 29, 2012

This week: - Triple bottom might be in for NZD gold - Jim Sinclair first out the gate again - More bull from “The Bernank” - More on planning for Bank Failures in NZ   Triple bottom might be in for NZD gold Last week we mentioned gold in NZ dollars might be looking to make a “triple bottom”.  Well with the passage of 7 days it could well be that...

Nov 29, 2011

Last week we were reading this Zero Hedge article with the rather long headline “Futures Plunge As Fed Discloses New Stress Test: Fears US Banks Will Need To Raise Tens Of Billions In New Capital”. It outlines how the US Federal Reserve is intending to stress test 6 large US banks against a “hypothetical” market shock (or should that have said a highly...

It’s been a while since we featured anything from Darryl Schoon.  We always enjoy his writings as we pick up a few bits of monetary history we’ve previously not heard.  In this article he runs through the history of paper money and its travel from East to West and now back again.  Why do we care about monetary history?  Simply, because if we...