Category Archives: New Zealand Articles

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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How Would Hyperinflation in the USA Affect New Zealand? [2023 Projections]

How Would Hyperinflation in The USA affect New Zealand?

How would hyperinflation in the USA affect New Zealand? How would interest rates here be affected? And what about the New Zealand dollar? Two years ago we were merely talking about the possibility of inflation to come. See: Inflation in 2021 and Beyond: What’s Different to 2009? But since then we have seen record high […]

Why Buy Silver? Here’s 21 Reasons to Buy Silver in 2023

Why Buy Silver

We’ve previously looked at all the reasons we could think of as to why to buy gold.  So it seems only fair that we should give “poor mans gold” the same treatment and so today we look at the question – “Why buy silver?”… Reasons to Buy Silver? Same as the Reasons to Buy Gold […]

New Zealand Bank Deposit Protection Scheme – Does N. Z. Have Bank Deposit Insurance in 2023?

New Zealand Bank Deposit Protection Scheme - Does New Zealand Have Bank Deposit Insurance?

How safe are your bank deposits? Does New Zealand have a bank deposit insurance scheme? Or is there a government bank deposit guarantee? The short answer is no. New Zealand doesn’t currently have a bank deposit protection scheme. With a recent question from a reader it seems many people are still not aware of this. […]

How to Safely Hold Dollars, Remain Liquid, and Seize Short-term Opportunities

Here’s an interesting question for anyone who might have significant funds in a New Zealand bank account. Or anyone who wants to keep their savings liquid with a view to purchasing precious metals or other tangible assets and investments. Reader DM asks: “I have just sold my farm and will shortly have a significant chunk […]

Why Buy Gold? Here’s 15 Reasons to Buy Gold Now in 2023

“Haven’t gold prices gone up quite a lot in the last year or so? So why buy gold now? Isn’t it too late to buy?” That’s one of the common responses we get when we mention we are involved in selling gold and silver bullion. Unlike a number of years ago the average guy or […]

Paper Gold vs Physical Gold – What Should You Buy in 2023?

Buying the right type of gold is key. You have the choice between physical gold vs paper gold in its many varied forms. But how do you decide which type of gold is right for you? Is it paper gold or physical gold? When deciding between paper and physical gold, the answer comes down to […]

Gold Mining Shares vs Physical Gold Bullion – Which to Buy in 2023?

Here’s quite a specific question from a reader looking at gold mining shares vs physical gold bullion. “I’m interested to know if owning gold and silver mining shares or owning actual gold and silver products makes any difference if your goal is wealth creation? In the short term and in the long term which would […]

Silver Breakout or Silver Fakeout? – Where to Next for Silver in 2023?

In our newsletter last week we wondered if we are seeing “the start of a full fledged breakout in silver”. With the passage of just another 6 days we reckon we can now say, yes it is! Silver in New Zealand dollars has moved sharply higher over the past week.  Looking at the 3 year […]

Gold Survival Guide Co-Founder Interviewed on Reality Check Radio

Gold Survival Guide Co-Founder Interview on Reality Check Radio

Co-Founder of Gold Survival Guide, Glenn Thomas, was recently interviewed by Paul Brennan on the new Reality Check Radio breakfast show. Paul Brennan is a former long time host on National Radio. The interview covers: The interview will appear in the list below. It is titled: “Glenn Thomas from Gold Survival Guide with Paul Brennan […]

Dow Gold Ratio: How Does Gold Compare to Shares For the Past 100 Years? Where to From Here in 2023?

Here’s a great question from a reader on gold versus shares. It’s worth reviewing this as last time we looked at this in November 2021 the US stock market had just hit a new all time high. You’ll see why perhaps you shouldn’t simply compare shares/stocks to gold over a long period of time and […]