Tag Archives: central banks

The Serious Warning No One’s Talking About

Is “helicopter money” coming to Japan? This article makes a very good argument as to why Japan might be the first major nation to try very soon.   This followed a visit to Japan from someone that was previously the world’s most powerful central banker… The Serious Warning No One’s Talking About By Justin Spittler […]

How to Escape the World’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme

We don’t have negative interest rates in New Zealand (although never say never!), but in this article you’ll see how why negative rates are a threat to your wealth no matter where you live in the world. Given the rate of growth in negative yielding debt globally this is likely to affect us even more […]

Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan Returns to Gold

Witty, dry and insightful, but always entertaining. Bill Bonner is one of our favourite financial writers.  He always comes at topics from a slightly different angle. In this piece he discusses Alan Greenspan and his views on gold of which he has been very outspoken on lately. Perhaps he is a “scalawag” as Bonner says. Perhaps (as […]

The #1 Reason to Buy Gold and Silver Surprisingly is NOT What You Think It Is

In the aftermath of the Brexit surprise and the sudden and severe impact on the Pound Sterling, this article is quite timely. It looks at recent devaluations of a number of other currencies. We’re not just talking struggling third world developing nations here either.So if you don’t think this can happen in the west then […]

In Gold We Trust 2016 – Out Now!

Last week Ronni Stoeferle and his partner at Incrementum Mark Valek released their “In Gold We Trust 2016” Report. We look forward to this report every year and set aside some time to digest it. If you were lucky you may have had the chance to meet Ronni back in 2013 when he made a […]

Doug Casey: This Country Is on the Cusp of a Real Disaster

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned we had a 100 Trillion Dollar note from Zimbabwe, and that these had turned into somewhat of a collectors item. Below Doug Casey tells us he carries one of these in his wallet as a conversation piece. Well recently he got to meet the man responsible for printing these […]

Mechanical ‘Economics’

Mechanical 'Economics'

Our favourite billionaire Hugo Salinas Price is back with a run down on all that is wrong with main stream economics. As always he puts his point across in an easy to understand manner showing what is wrong with using the definite principles of physics in trying to explain human action in economics…   Mechanical […]

The Elite’s Plan for Global Inflation, Part II

This is the follow up to another article posted earlier which you can read here first if you haven’t already: The Elite’s New Case for Gold. It expands upon what the likely plan is from the global elite in trying to overcome the forces of deflation…   Jim Rickards: The Elite’s Master Plan for Global Inflation […]

If You Use This Bank, Your Cash Could Soon Be “Taxed”

Up until now in the countries around the world where their Central Bank has set negative interest rates, it is only the banks who have been charged these by the Central Bank. The banks pay the Central Bank on any “excess reserves” they hold with the Central Bank, with the rationale being this will “encourage” […]

How Much Physical Paper Money is in Circulation in NZ vs Total Bank Deposits?

PAPER MONEY IN CIRCULATION IN NZ

Bank runs might seem like a far fetched possibility, both in the USA and here in New Zealand. But the below article shows just how little physical paper currency there is available in the USA compared to the total dollars in US cheque and savings accounts. It inspired us to have bit of a dig around […]