May 9, 2012

This week: Kiwi takes a dive and helps out precious metals Real Interest Rates in New Zealand: What can they tell us about when to buy gold Gerald Celente in Trends Journal – NZ a good place to escape to. Shanghai Futures Exchange starts silver futures trading Good time to buy Gold and Silver in NZ? How a Silver bar quote is put together Kiwi takes a...

Apr 19, 2012

This week: - More gold bears than gold bulls – time to buy? - Free Aussie Gold Stock pick - China’s gold imports up tremendously   More gold bears than gold bulls – time to buy? A week of great charts for you this week.  This first one is of the Bloomberg gold bull/bear sentiment indicator. It shows that the gold bears outnumber the gold...

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...

If you like a chart or two, here’s a few interesting ones showing foreigners have been reducing their holdings of US Treasuries.  Could this be the start of the inevitable loss of faith in government debt?  We shall have to wait and see… By Bud Conrad, Chief Economist, Casey Research Foreign central banks buy US Treasury and Agency debt through...

It’s been quite a while since we featured anything from James (or Jim) Quinn from The Burning Platform.  This guest post is a must read for us New Zealanders as it looks at China’s future to which we are inexorably linked.  For one, because they are buying more and more of our commodities.  And two, because they are Australia’s main trading...