Reports from local bullion refiners and suppliers here in New Zealand match overseas reports of delivery delays for gold and particularly for silver. Locally the delays are from a week up to many weeks for silver, whereas not long ago you could pick silver up a couple of days after ordering it. Is this due […]
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Here is where we also feature writing from others around the world. We don’t always agree with everything they have to say but we pick interesting commentary from the likes of James Rickards, Darryl Schoon, Stewart Thomson and many others.
Often giving our 2 cents worth on what they have to say too.
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By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD The numbers for silver demand are starting to make some market-watchers nervous. The U.S. Mint sold over 6.4 million silver Eagles in January, more than any other month since the coin’s introduction in 1986. China’s net imports of silver quadrupled in 2010, to 122.6 million ounces, roughly 13.7% of global […]
What This Key Technical Signal is Flashing Right Now I have stated this for many years now and I’ll continue to stand by this statement: Technical and fundamental analysis are of limited utility in predicting short-term trends in manipulated markets when analyzed in a vacuum absent of the context of government and bank manipulation. This not […]
The Grand Poobah of Casey Research gives us a history lesson today on the last Great Depression. Not surprisingly what he has to say about it, differs on almost every count to what you may hear in most history books and mainstream accounts. Read on to learn his conclusions – based largely upon comparing todays […]
CHINA, INFLATION & GOLD China created paper money and paper money then created inflation Ralph T. Foster in his invaluable book, Fiat Paper Money, The History and Evolution of Our Currency, writes that paper money made its first appearance in Szechwan, a remote province of China early in the 11th century. Because of a shortage […]
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We’ve written previously on the Gold/Housing ratio for here in NZ. Here’s some historical data on the silver/housing ratio for the USA and how low the ratio could potentially drop in the future. We’ve also now had a look at what local data we could find on the NZ silver/housing ratio. So you can compare […]
If you think gold and silver as an asset class are severely misunderstood, and they are, then multiply that misunderstanding 10 times, and you will realize the level of misconceptions that exist around junior mining stocks. The typical propaganda disseminated by bankers that surround gold and silver every single year when gold and silver corrections […]
By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research Does the price action of gold of late make you scratch your head, falling as it has from its recent high of $1,420 to $1,359 as I write? Hard not to make one wonder, considering the nature of so much recent breaking news… Consumer prices in December exceeded forecasts, […]
Unfortunately we missed hearing the interviewee in this interview, Frank Holmes, when he spoke here in Auckland and also in Wellington at the end of 2009. Because he is someone in the gold sector worth paying attention to. In this interview he gives his projection for 2011, how silver may do, as well as a couple […]
We discuss gold pool accounts to some degree in our Free Ecourse. Here’s some more specifics on the possible pitfalls and if you choose to use unallocated gold storage how you could minimise the potential risks… By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD One of the cheapest ways to buy and store physical gold and silver is […]