John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Dollar Collapse Gold Forecast For 2016 And Next Year's Monetary Experiment

  Published 01 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Gold is down in the US but rising in most other places. Could this be the start of the next bull market in precious metals…

• A Monster With A Key To Its Own Cage

  Published 28 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Out on the fringes of monetary policy, a merger of sorts is taking place between the debt jubilee and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The result…

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

  Published 27 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Along with the currencies of most other commodity-exporting countries, the Canadian dollar has been in near-freefall lately. Gold, meanwhile, has been sucked down with the…

• Small Stories Add Up To A Big Problem

  Published 25 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Three smaller stories -- a debt default by a Mexican construction firm, Spain's recent election of an anti-euro government, and Brazil's replacement of its finance…

• The End Is Near, Part 7: Governments Become (Really Bad) Money Managers, Screw Up Markets

  Published 24 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  2015 was a year Brazil would like to forget. Its economy crashed, its political class was decapitated by a corruption scandal, a huge iron mine…

• Something is Burning in High Yield Corporates!

  Published 23 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  With John Rubino & Gordon T Long Published 12-18-15 31 Minute Video John Rubino and Gordon T Long discuss the alarming developments in the Junk…

• First Podcast! Bad Numbers On The Economic Horizon

  Published 22 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Interest rates were finally increased after many years of threats/promises by the Fed. Economic numbers coming out of the Philadelphia Fed are decidedly negative and…

• The Dominoes Keep Falling: Leftward Lurches And EM Defaults

  Published 21 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Sometimes one big event dominates the landscape, like last week when the Fed raised interest rates. Other times a bunch of less-universally-significant-things add up to…

• The Recession And Bear Market Of 2016, In Two Charts

  Published 20 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Good friend Michael Pollaro just sent a couple of charts that show the US economy heading for a brick wall. The first illustrates what happens…

• Market Figures Out Fed No Longer Has Its Back

  Published 18 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  US stocks soared while the Fed was meeting to raise interest rates this week -- though it's not clear why that should be so since…

• Torrent Of Bad News Greets Fed As It Prepares To Raise Rates

  Published 16 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Ideally, a central bank would like the party to be rocking when it takes away the punch bowl. This party, however, is not cooperating. For…

• Junk Bond Crisis Starts To Metastasize

  Published 14 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  With junk bonds finally reverting to their intrinsic value, the question on everyone's mind is "what blows up next?" Here's the first in what might…

• This Is How Fast It Happens

  Published 11 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  As amazing as it now sounds, companies deemed to be highly risky were able to borrow money from US investors for less than 6% as…

• The Least Surprising Stat Of The Week: Corporate Insiders Are Dumping Their Stock

  Published 10 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Here's one for the "actions speak louder than words" file: Massive insider selling spurs stock market concerns (CNBC) - Corporate insiders have been selling their…

• The End is Near, Part 6: Individual Investors Rediscover Individual Stocks

  Published 08 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Since their introduction in 1993, exchange traded funds (ETFs) have become a huge hit with retail (that is, small individual) investors, for a very good…

• Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People

  Published 07 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC's inability to limit its members' production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the…

• How Low Can A Pension Fund Go?

  Published 06 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  This is one of those stories that gets more amazing the further you dig into it. Seems that while Chicago descends into a very public,…

• The 'Real Stuff' Economy Is Falling Apart

  Published 03 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Each month one or two high-profile government reports show the US is growing, adding jobs and generally recovering from the Great Recession. But it's not…

• Money Is Becoming Unmanageable: Hedge Funds Post Losses, Face Outflows

  Published 02 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Some of the money managers who made names (and billions of dollars) for themselves in the past decade are suddenly failing: Hedge Funds Brace for…

• What's With All The Superweapons?

  Published 30 November 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Because apparently the world isn't complex and scary enough, the major powers have decided to unveil a bunch of "superweapons" capable of, um, unique kinds…