Category Archives: Syndicated Articles

We believe that first and foremost it pays to be positioned in actual physical gold.  However the following makes a good argument for also having some positions in gold stocks or shares.  While the gold mining shares have lagged the price of gold over the past year, history does say that the miners will likely […]

Last week following the Federal Reserve announcement we commented that we thought the Fed would like to see more inflation. In this article from the always thorough Bud Conrad, we get a number of other insights into the likely meanings behind and results to come from the announcement.  Bud comments on: – The reactions of gold, […]

You may or may not have heard the potentially major news report that Iran is discussing with India the possibility of transacting oil purchases in gold rather than in US dollars.  It hasn’t been widely reported.  We first noticed it on debka.com, since then it has also been reported on RT.   In the last few […]

Following on from last weeks article looking at previous corrections in gold and the time it took to make new highs, we’ve also done the same thing with this new article from Casey Research.   We’ve looked at 3 major corrections in New Zealand dollar priced silver since 2005, comparing how deep the corrections have […]

Here’s some great stats on how long it has taken gold to reach new highs in each of the 3 previous large corrections in the current gold bull market of the past 11 years.  While the below article is based upon the US dollar price of gold, it can give an indication of what to […]

Outlined in this article are some of the reason as to why gold has been falling in recent months.  (On top of these someone a bit closer to home, Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint, has outlined how Indian demand has been a big factor too.) So, has the bull market in gold finished?  Well […]

We’ve just completed our own 2011 review of gold and silver in NZ dollar terms.  In the following article Jeff Clark shows us that surprisingly US treasuries were the best performing sector of 2011.  So is this the place for our money in 2012 or does gold still look strong from a fundamental point of […]

Well here we are in 2012.  No doubt you’ve heard about the “Mayan prophecy” and how December 2012 is when the Mayan Calendar ends.  We’ve mulled this over ourselves lately.  There’s certainly much changing in the world in all spheres – financial and economic obviously, but also environmental, political and sociologically too.  In the below […]

Although the charts in this article deal with gold and silver in US dollars, we’ve actually had very similar sized corrections in NZ dollars recently too, so there’s still some validity in comparing.  Since we wrote last week that gold was at close to 2 month lows, gold is now even closer to it’s 200 […]

We do stumble across from time to time in the blogosphere articles about supply shortages in the precious metals.  Well here’s some actual nuts and bolts numbers on how the supply of gold appears at the present, as well as some prognostications on the future supply… By Louis James, Casey Research We have reported on […]