Category Archives: Syndicated Articles

We were lucky enough to meet Rick Rule at a gathering with Doug Casey from Casey Research here in Auckland a couple of years ago.  We got to speak directly with someone who has been heavily involved in the commodity and mining sectors for many years and it was an enlightening experience.  Today we hear […]

We’ve discussed in recent weeks a number of reasons why the US dollar is on the way out as the global reserve currency.  This article does well in summarising and linking together why all these recent factors that likely point to the end of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency… By Marin Katusa, […]

Whatever Doug Casey says is always worth listening to as his opinion is more often than not from left field.  In this interview he discusses the current global “recovery” and whether this is sustainable.  Interestingly he also talks about the likelihood of gold backed digital currencies, something we think seems more and more likely in […]

If you’ve heard about manipulation but haven’t managed to get you head around it, here’s a great article that summarises a good deal of the evidence relating to the manipulation of the silver market without having to read too many pages.   At the end Mr Weir also comes up with what would be an […]

It seems to us that many people are sitting on the sidelines trying to pick the bottom of the current correction in precious metals.  This is definitely an “easier said than done” activity.  This article discusses one method that makes a lot of sense to us when it comes to buying gold and silver and […]

Anecdotal evidence seems to point to many people sitting on the sidelines at the moment when it comes to purchasing gold (and silver).  From what we have heard the common view is that gold and silver will fall further yet as it seems to them the global economy is improving (if you listen to Bernanke […]

Two years ago we wrote an article When will you know it’s time to sell gold?  In this article we touched on 7 indicators to keep an eye on.  Well, the following article goes into significant depth on one of these indicators and as it is probably the most crucial gold indicator to track, makes the […]

Of news lately has been that the Indian government has raised import duties on gold bars and coins into India. In fact a strike by Indian Jewellers just ended today after the government back tracked on also implementing a 1 percent levy on non-branded gold jewellery.  The expectation would be that these further tariffs (they […]

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 […]

There’s been a bit of talk recently that things are looking up around the globe.  Europe has been “fixed” (not our opinion but we’ve seen it written), unemployment is down (if you believe the government unemployment numbers that is), and it seemed like the printing presses would be sitting idle for a while (at least […]