With another year gone it’s time for our annual year in review, looking at how gold and silver in NZ Dollars performed during the calendar year. Also a chance to look at our predictions (or what we prefer to call guesses!) from last year and see how we did. We do this every year – even […]
Tag Archives: gold
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Dec
Dec
Chris Martenson has a new book out called “Prosper”. A new subscriber (Thanks Andrew R!) mentioned how much he was enjoying the audiobook version, so we’ve ordered it ourselves. We’ve featured a lot of Chris’s work over the years including his crash course – which you can see for free here. And everything he does […]
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Dec
Dec
One of the worst kept secrets in global finance was confirmed on Tuesday when the IMF gave notice that it was to add the Chinese Renminbi to the basket of currencies that make up the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR). This will take place in October 2016. “Under the new formula, the respective weights of […]
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Nov
Nov
Investing in bonds is not a common form of investment in New Zealand by any means. We keep an eye on the NZ Government Bond rate ourselves as a useful indicator of demand for NZ debt. However there are many different types of bonds to consider. This article outlines why one type of bond is shouting a […]
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Nov
Nov
We actually posted a video of this and a write up last week (you can see that here). But we thought it still worth sharing this Casey Research article in case you hadn’t seen it. We covered the options for Long Life Freeze Dried Emergency Food (available from our sister site here) and gold and silver in […]
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Oct
Oct
A couple of days ago we spotted the below tweet from David Morgan at the Silver Investor: Normally we’d probably overlook this as the name Jonathan Johnson didn’t mean anything to us. However we spotted the company name Overstock.com (a very large online retailer in the USA) and recalled reading a couple of interviews with […]
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Oct
Oct
Here are some of the highlights from the recently concluded Casey Research Summit. Find out what some of the speakers such as Doug Casey and Marc Faber think are the best buys currently in the world of investing… Find Out What Doug Casey Is Buying Today By Dan Steinhart Doug Casey was asked to leave the stage… If […]
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Aug
Aug
A chuckle is what we often get from reading anything by Stewart Thomson. He has again posted one of his paid newsletters in the clear, so we’ve republished it. Mainly because he has some different views on interest rate rises. What are they? Well, he thinks the odds are high the Fed will raise rates […]
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Aug
Aug
Big news this week that one of the best performing hedge fund managers of the past few decades has taken a very large position in gold. In fact it is 20% of his fund size. Read on to see who it was and why he did it… This “Pig” Just Made a Massive Bet on […]
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Aug
Aug
With the announcement this week of China’s Yuan devaluation getting plenty of coverage, we’ve got a slightly different take on it below from J.S. Kim. His angle is not the majority view that they have done it solely to boost their exports though. Read on to find out… Another Strong Signal Yesterday to Own More Physical […]