New Zealand may soon not be the only developed country without bank deposit insurance, but with a policy of bank bail ins. A “bail in” means it is the savers who have funds with a failing bank whose deposits are used to prop up a failing bank. (If you’re unaware of what happens to your […]
Category Archives: New Zealand Articles
This category includes all the articles on gold, silver and related topics written by Gold Survival Guide, often with a New Zealand focus.
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Nov
Nov
Back on the 1st November we asked the question: “Is the New Zealand Dollar Now in a Longer Term Downtrend?” Let’s revisit what we said then. Then we’ll consider will the New Zealand dollar continue to fall? Is the NZ Dollar Now in a Longer Term Downtrend? As noted already the NZ Dollar is still oversold. […]
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Nov
Nov
The Free Smartphone App Built Specifically for New Zealand Gold and Silver Investors We’re always looking at ways we can improve our service. The latest addition is the brand new Gold Survival Guide Mobile App. It’s available for free download now on the Google Play store for Android Devices. It will also be available soon […]
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Oct
Oct
The announced policies from the new Labour/NZ First/Greens Coalition have caused a lot of discussion around how the housing market here will be affected. A NZ house price crash has even been discussed overseas. Martin Armstrong has done some really interesting work on large cycles and how we humans often repeat the same mistakes. He […]
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Oct
Oct
Time for an updated look at the Gold to Silver Ratio. Why? Because we think silver may finally be setting up to outperform gold again. We haven’t looked at the Gold to Silver Ratio in real detail since March 2016. In that post we covered: What is the Gold to Silver Ratio? How is […]
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Oct
Oct
Update 2018: The RBNZ bank dashboard has now been published. See this post for the full details of what is included and what its shortcomings may be: RBNZ Bank Financial Strength Dashboard: How Helpful is it? Last month the Reserve Bank quietly published its RBNZ Bank Dashboard initiative for quarterly bank disclosures. The full riveting […]
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Oct
Oct
Connecting Like Minded People Gold, silver and related ideas remain very much a fringe topic. One of the most common things we hear when talking to people is “I don’t have anyone to discuss any of this with. My friends and family think I am nuts!” Odds are that you may have few, if any, […]
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Sep
Sep
Last week we tried to answer the question Could a Capital Gains Tax on Property Increase Investment in Gold & Silver in NZ? This came about as a result of the Labour party discussing changes to the tax system. But there is also another change relating to property that has been talked about recently. The […]
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Sep
Sep
Plenty of talk in the media currently about a capital gains tax on property or even land taxes. A reader Stan has been mulling this over and asks: “Could the introduction of a capital gains tax on investment residential properties, make investing in silver/gold, a more attractive scenario to those then put off in taking […]
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Aug
Aug
Silver Maple Monster Box – 500 x 1oz Royal Canadian Mint Silver Maple Leaf Coins A Silver Maple Monster box is one of the best value ways of buying the popular 1oz silver maple leaf coins in bulk. First produced in 1988 by the Royal Canadian Mint, the Silver Maple Leaf (SML) was the […]