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Michael Pento on the Yield Curve, Recession and Why This Time is Not Different
Yield Curve, Recession and Why This Time is Not Different In this very good interview with Micheal Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies, Pento explains why the yield curve is not dropping simply due to...
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The RBA is Destroying The Australian Economy…and No One Cares. Is the RBNZ...
Greg Canavan wrote last week in his excellent Rum Rebellion eletter that the Reserve Bank of Australia is destroying the Aussie economy. It prompted us to have a think about how this compares to the...
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Could Negative Interest Rates Be in Store for New Zealand?
Is This What’s in Store for New Zealand Down the Road? How’s this for perverse? Could anything as crazy as negative interest rates on mortgages come to New Zealand? Homeowners in Denmark are “about to...
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Derivatives – a Beginner’s Guide to “Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction” –...
Following the 2009 financial crisis, the term derivatives has been firmly embedded in todays lexicon. With the failure of Bear Stearns in 2008, and subsequent bailout of multiple other too big too...
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Should I Buy Gold Today or Wait? 6 Factors to Consider
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...
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What Would Negative Interest Rates Mean for New Zealand?
A couple of weeks ago we reported on the prospect of negative interest rates arriving in New Zealand as soon as November. The Westpac chief economist expected the RBNZ to signal its change of plan in...
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Real Interest Rates vs Gold Prices – What Can They Tell Us About When to Buy...
Recently there has been a bit of discussion in the mainstream about interest rates potentially rising sooner than expected. ASB yesterday increased its five-year term deposit rate by 75 basis points...
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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? There has been a bit more talk of the possibility of inflation...
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The Yield Curve Recession Predictor 2022: Impact on Gold?
The best predictor of a recession we have seen is the yield curve. While the yield curve may sound like something only economists would know about and discuss, it’s actually a surprisingly simple...
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Interest Rates and Gold: If Interest Rates Rise in 2022 What Happens to Gold?
Last week the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) raised the Official Cash Rate yet again by another 50 basis points. Today we look at interest rates and gold. Specifically answering the question: If...
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