John Rubino

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• Soaring Debt = Slow Growth = Even More Debt = Systemic Crisis

  Published 04 June 2017 | viewed 0 times

  It's just common sense: Borrow too much money and the weight of this debt makes it hard to do things that used to be easy.…

• The Least Explicable Bubble

  Published 03 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Of all the mini-bubbles now inflating out there, maybe the least explicable is the race among emerging market companies to borrow dollars. This has gotten…

• Misunderstanding GDXJ: Why It's Actually Great News For Junior Miners

  Published 27 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Something extraordinarily good for junior precious metals miners just happened. But for some reason it's being misinterpreted as a bad thing. Here's the general story:…

• The Housing Bubble Is Back

  Published 25 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Last week I ran into a friend whom I'd been worrying about. He's a real estate appraiser and his work had been drying up as…

• Don't Let This Happen To You!

  Published 22 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Some lives were changed recently: Gold Treasure Found Inside A British Piano (Mercury News) — British officials say they've been unable to trace the rightful…

• After The Crash*, Part 2: Digital And Regenerative Medicine

  Published 21 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  For most people, the doctor visit hasn't changed in decades. Same physical waiting rooms, same paper forms to fill out, same slow, expensive tests and…

• Why We're Ungovernable, Part 17: Europe Gets Its Doomsday Scenario

  Published 17 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The rise of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has made a lot of people nervous since, among many other things, she's in favor…

• China Starting To Resemble Bernie Madoff

  Published 14 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Aubible.com just released a new show on Bernie Madoff (Ponzi Supernova: Bernie Madoff Speaks, available for free to subscribers) that explains how the world's biggest…

• After The Crash, Part 1: Solar Stocks

  Published 13 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The frustration out there is palpable. Skim the comments sections of popular financial sites like Zero Hedge or Seeking Alpha and you'll see gloom-and-doomy articles…

• Welcome To The Third World, Part 23: Honest Pension Returns Equal Mass-Bankruptcy

  Published 10 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Last year the California Public Employees' Retirement System, otherwise known as Calpers, cut the expected return on the funds it invests for plan beneficiaries from…

• What's Left To Drive The Recovery? Not Much

  Published 08 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  US growth, such as it is, has lately been driven by a handful of hot sectors. Car sales have set records, high-end real estate is…

• Soaring Global Debt Sets Stage For 'Unprecedented Private Deleveraging'

  Published 06 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The UK's Telegraph just published an analysis of global debt that pretty much sums up the coming crisis. Here's an excerpt with a couple of…

• Maybe The Recovery Wasn't Real After All

  Published 01 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  For a while there it looked like the US and its main trading partners had finally achieved escape velocity. Growth was up, inflation was poking…

• Welcome To The Third World, Part 22: Whites Are Dying 'Deaths Of Despair'

  Published 27 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  "White privilege" is such a commonly accepted pillar of American society that it's become material for comics. As Chris Rock tells his audience in the…

• Two Trends That Will Force The Fed To Start Buying Stocks

  Published 25 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  While the Japanese and Swiss central banks have turned themselves into hedge funds by loading up on equities, the US Fed has stuck to supporting…

• Be Careful What You Wish For, Police Body-Cam Edition

  Published 25 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  After the recent deluge of videos showing police abusing and sometimes flat-out murdering more-or-less innocent citizens, the willingness of a growing number of cities to…

• Don't Hide Your Gold Coins Where Your Thermostat Can See

  Published 21 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Back in the 1990s when businesses started going online they frequently didn't realize that their new networking gear came with simple default passwords like "admin".…

• Welcome to the Third World, Part 21: State Schools Scale Waaayyy Back

  Published 19 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Readers of a certain age will remember when state universities were a bit spartan but extremely cheap. Middle class families could send their kids to…

• Podcast: Inflation + Populism = Soaring Gold

  Published 14 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Inflation is back, thanks to the past few years' exuberant borrowing and currency creation. Meanwhile, populist politicians are gaining traction in Europe, threatening both the…

• Fossil Fuels Are Toast - But Real Assets Are Still The Place To Be

  Published 09 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  With all the oil-related headlines we're exposed to each day, you might assume that "black gold," along with other fossil fuels like coal and natural…