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New Zealand Gold and Silver 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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Bank Failures: Will New Zealand be Cyprussed?

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Unless you’ve been under a rock (or without broadband and TV for 3 days like me!) you will have no doubt heard about the “bail in” of banks via bank depositors in the small island nation of Cyprus. The proposal (which has since been voted down) was to tax – a.k.a. steal funds – up […]

Pleasure or Pain? Where to Now for Gold and Silver in New Zealand Dollars?

What are you experiencing? Pleasure or Pain? It probably depends on whether you own any gold or silver already (and also when you purchased it), or whether you’re intending to buy some in the near future. If you’ve bought in the past 2 years you could be experiencing some pain as you may well be […]

Gold and Silver in NZ Dollars: 2012 in Review and What Lies Ahead?

Well another year bites the dust and as we have done for the past couple, it’s time to review the performance of Gold and Silver in New Zealand Dollars for 2012. By now you’ve no doubt read that gold (when priced in US dollars) extended its run of positive year end results to 12 years […]

What’s Wrong With the RBNZ’s Bank Failure Plans?

What happens if a bank fails in New Zealand? If your bank failed tomorrow, what would happen? Who knows is the current answer. If it was a small bank the government may leave it to the statutory managers and so depositors might get wiped out completely if the bank was devoid of assets. But, if […]

Housing Un-affordability: It’s Not Supply, It’s the Debt Stupid!

The topic du jour in the media this week has been housing affordability or rather unaffordability in New Zealand and especially Auckland. So we couldn’t resist but throw our 2 cents worth into the mix. In case you’d missed it the government has announced they will work to make more land available in Auckland and […]

Gold Symposium 2012: What is the End Game for the Global Monetary Crisis?

Thoughts from the presenters at the 2012 Gold Symposium in Sydney on how the monetary crisis may end: When 90% of the audience puts their hand up in answer to the question “who owns physical gold or silver?”, there was always going to be an element of “preaching to the converted” at an event titled […]

Why the Greens Are Wrong About Money Printing

Everyone Else is Printing Why Shouldn’t We? You’ve no doubt heard the Greens theory announced this week that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) should print money to buy $2 billion dollars worth of Canterbury reconstruction bonds and overseas assets. Their theory being we will restock the Governments Disaster Fund and lower the NZD […]

QE3, Gold and Silver: How Will it Affect New Zealand Precious Metals Prices and the NZ Dollar?

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What do Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story and Ben Bernanke have in common? “To Infinity and Beyond” is their shared catch phrase it seems. With the US Federal Reserve’s Chairman’s announcement last week of open ended quantitative easing (QE), Jim Sinclair’s (of JSmineset.com) long time call of QE to infinity seems to now be in […]

Why Has the New Zealand Dollar Been Rising of Late?

We read a Bloomberg article  yesterday looking at the Aussie and Kiwi dollars and the fact they have been the best performing major currencies against the US dollar in recent months.  In fact it noted the returns on New Zealand’s securities surged to sixth in the second-quarter, up from 13th in the first three months […]

Currency, Doing Business, and Tax Rates on the Rich | How Does New Zealand Compare

Today we have a bit of a comparison of little old New Zealand in a number of measures, from various odds and ends we’ve come across in the past week.  So we’ll get to have a look at where we rank globally on a range of topics such as: Our currency Ease of doing business […]