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What Would Happen to the NZ Dollar When the US Dollar Collapses?

What Would Happen to the NZ Dollar When the US Dollar Collapses?

The US dollar has fallen significantly since initially spiking higher in March last year during the initial stages of the corona-panic. As a result we are seeing more talk in the media of a US Dollar collapse. We even shared some thoughts on this topic in last week’s newsletter. (See: “A US Dollar Crash This […]

Buying Silver in New Zealand – Why is it More Expensive?

Buy Silver in New Zealand - Why is it More Expensive

Why is it More Expensive to Buy Silver in New Zealand? In the past when buying silver bars, premiums (i.e. the mark up) above the spot price of silver have been 20% and even as high as 30% in New Zealand. While premiums above spot price have reduced on silver over recent years, silver in […]

NZers: Do You Hold Cash or Gold in the Coming [or Already Here?] Crisis?

NZers: Do You Hold Cash or Gold in the Coming Crisis?

Here’s some thoughts on the debate between holding cash or gold in an economic crisis. We look to be in the early stages of the crisis written about in 2015 right now… In our article last week titled, What Will the Impacts of the COVID19 Lockdown be on the Global and New Zealand Economy?, we […]

Should I Buy Gold Today or Wait? 6 Factors to Consider

SHOULD I BUY GOLD TODAY OR WAIT?

Here’s an excellent question from a reader which we received a few years ago. It’s about whether to buy gold today or wait. Even though he asks whether the “powers that be” will let the stock market crash while Obama is in power, it’s still relevant today. Why? Because it shows the things we think might […]

Confusing Investing with Wealth Protection – The Risks of Paper Gold vs Physical Gold

CONFUSING-INVESTING-WITH-WEALTH-PROTECTION-THE-RISKS-OF-PAPER-GOLD-vs-PHYSICAL-GOLD

You’ve likely heard of reports in the past of problems with missing investor money at an Auckland bullion dealing and trading company. We’ve previously had the odd question from readers about the situation. We don’t know any more about it than anyone who has read the newspaper articles such as those below. We’ve had nothing […]

Here’s How to Connect With Other Like-Minded New Zealanders

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, […]

Financial Martial Law: Does NZ Have Similar Financial Reporting Regulations?

Reader Kim forwarded us the below article on Financial Martial Law in the USA and asked: “Have you guys seen this ? Does NZ have similar regulation ? Sadly I imagine it does.” First here’s the full article. At the end we’ll give our thoughts on where any similarities are with New Zealand financial reporting […]

RBNZ Deputy Confirms Our Thoughts: Any Bank Depositor Bail-In Exemption Likely Minimal

Last week we discussed how the IMF has: “…recommended the government implement a $10,000 “de minimis” exemption to the current Open Bank Resolution (OBR) scheme (a.k.a. bank depositor haircut scheme). This would mean that each bank depositor would get $10,000 exempt from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s (RBNZ) depositor “haircut” policy if a bank […]

IMF Says NZ Needs Bank Depositor Haircut Exemption of $10,000

An IMF report this week on the state of the New Zealand banking system, recommended the government implement a $10,000 “de minimis” exemption to the current Open Bank Resolution (OBR) scheme (a.k.a. bank depositor haircut scheme). This would mean that each bank depositor would get $10,000 exempt from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s (RBNZ) […]

Ronni Stoeferle: Retail Bullion Demand is Collapsing – What About in New Zealand?

See how retail gold investors have been behaving quite differently to big money investors. Discover how this compares to what’s happening in the New Zealand bullion market. Plus what the current headwinds and tailwinds for gold are. It’s been awhile since we shared any thoughts from the excellent Ronni Stoeferle of Incrementum and the In […]