John Rubino

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• Where Is The Market Turmoil Taking Us?

  Published 24 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  On Monday, stocks tanked around the world and so did oil, breaking $27. On Tuesday things looked better. Central banks were jawboning, with Mario Draghi…

• Chronicle Of A Debt Foretold

  Published 23 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Critics of today's fiat currency/fractional reserve banking world have (for what seems like forever) made the common sense point that when debt rises faster than…

• Short Sellers Back In The Saddle: QA With Bearing Asset Management

  Published 20 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The improbable success of The Big Short, a scathing and hilarious tutorial on making money during a financial crisis, probably has a lot of people…

• Everybody's Doing It

  Published 19 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Yesterday's post on the unreliability of China's official numbers attracted comments that were mostly along the lines of "people who live in glass houses shouldn't…

• Why Are We Still Paying Attention To Chinese Numbers?

  Published 19 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  A few years ago, economist Nouriel Roubini was explaining to a reporter why Chinese economic data couldn't be trusted. He noted that it takes the…

• Another Atrocious Week Going Out With A Bang

  Published 15 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  On days when lots of financial numbers are released, the normal pattern is for some to point one way and some another, giving everyone a…

• Fed Starts To Walk Back Its Rate Hike. Next Step: More QE, Bigger Experiments

  Published 14 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  That didn't take long. A month after the Fed's dreaded quarter-point interest rate hike, the markets tank and out come the talking heads to promise…

• Huge Miner Bankruptcies Possible Soon; Great News For Gold And Silver, Bad News For Streaming Companies?

  Published 13 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The commodities bust may be about to claim some brand-name victims: Freeport-McMoRan Inc: The Hits Just Keep Coming Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) is off to a brutal…

• DeFANGed

  Published 13 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Yesterday's bulletproof stocks, led by the FANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google), are getting whacked today. Amazon is down 100 points from its high, 32…

• OPEC Threatens, Market Yawns

  Published 12 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  It seems that at least some OPEC members are starting to panic: War of words breaks out among OPEC members (CNN Money) - Is the…

• What Blows Up Next? Part 2: Pension Funds With Nowhere To Hide

  Published 12 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Faced with spiking volatility in pretty much every market, it's natural and reasonable to sell some risky assets and hide out in cash until the…

• The Shrinking Global Economy, In Three Charts

  Published 10 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Regular contributor Michael Pollaro offers three more charts which tell a story that's both disturbing and apparently misunderstood by a lot of mainstream analysts. The…

• This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, China Edition

  Published 10 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  As China's leaders figure out that pegging the yuan to the dollar while quintupling their debt in five years was a colossal mistake, they are,…

• Book Review: Prosper! by Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart

  Published 08 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  In their new book, Peak Prosperity's Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart don't sugarcoat the thesis, which is basically the end of the world as we…

• Perfect Storm!

  Published 07 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  One of the (many) fascinating things about this latest global financial crisis is that there's no single catalyst. Unlike 2008 when the carnage could be…

• Stock Market's Remaining Pillars Are Crumbling

  Published 06 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Once every decade or so investor credulity reaches a point where even seasoned money managers buy into the notion of "one decision" stocks -- that…

• Risk Off! For Now

  Published 04 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The sound money community woke up this morning to a world finally behaving rationally -- which is to say cowering in abject terror at the…

• World On Fire

  Published 03 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The latest Middle East news is right out of ISIS' medieval playbook. But it's not (at least not all) ISIS. US ally Saudi Arabia apparently…

• Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing -- And Closing -- And Why It Matters

  Published 03 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  How do you make money in a world where history is meaningless? The answer, for a growing number of big fund managers, is that you…

• More Ominous Charts For 2016

  Published 02 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  If 2015 was the year in which no investment strategy worked, 2016 is looking like the year in which all economic policies fail. Already, at…