John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• It's Schadenfreude Time

  Published 23 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Doug Noland's writings are always interesting. But sometimes more than others. The former manager of the Prudent Bear fund and now proprietor of the Credit…

• Pretty Good Day For Gold Bugs

  Published 21 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The bull market that wouldn't end finally has. In a brutal day that just kept getting worse, US stocks followed Asia and Europe into the…

• The Fed Talks And The Market Tanks. That's Different

  Published 20 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Normally there's a distinct pattern to the impact of Federal Reserve statements on the financial markets. The tone of equities trading in particular starts to…

• Corporate Profits Have Peaked -- And Will Tank Next Year

  Published 18 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  One of the reasons US stocks have had such a nice run is that public companies have been making a lot of money. The profit…

• Another Monday, Another Batch Of Brutal Numbers

  Published 17 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The global recovery meme got another series of jolts this morning, as pretty much everything suprised on the downside. In no particular order: Japan economy…

• The Dumb Money Is Doing Something Smart

  Published 16 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  At the peak of bull markets, when stock prices have been rising long enough for people who just recently started paying attention to conclude that…

• Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Rates In This World? Currency Crisis Edition

  Published 13 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  A month ago China's stock bubble was bursting and Greece was imploding. Yet the US Fed, in a violation of both headline sentiment and common…

• China About To Make History - Again

  Published 09 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Any discussion of China has to open with the now-widely-understood fact that the numbers it reports are not to be trusted. Knowing this makes it…

• Big Media Stocks Tank, Almost Nothing Left To Support The Market

  Published 06 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Bloomberg just posted an analysis of the recent correction in media stocks (Another major pillar of the bull market is collapsing) that contains some surprising,…

• Faced With 'Significant Deterioration,' Fed Begins Its Rate Hike Walk-Back

  Published 05 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The recent trickle of bad news has become a torrent. From just the past couple of days: Eurozone retail sales fall sharply in June (MarketWatch)…

• Here Comes The Next Trillion-Dollar Bailout

  Published 03 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  As boxers like to say, it's the punch you don't see that knocks you out. In a world where a growing part of the financial…

• QE Fails In Japan: Inflation Nonexistent, Consumer Spending Drops, More Ease Coming

  Published 31 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  After nearly three decades of stagnation, Japan in 2013 went all-in, ordering its central bank, the Bank of Japan, to buy pretty much every bond…

• Fed To Markets: You're STILL Too Easy To Fool!

  Published 30 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  These days no matter what the Federal Reserve actually says, the markets respond like dogs sensing a piece of bacon coming their way. This is…

• Putting The Puzzle of Greece Together

  Published 28 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Published 07-27-15 33 Minute Video John Rubino and Gordon T Long discuss the current puzzling developments in Greece and the seemingly impossible choices facing the…

• China: Major Devaluation Coming

  Published 27 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The whole "market economy" thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China's dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008…

• Central Banks Ready To Panic

  Published 24 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Less than a decade after a housing/derivatives bubble nearly wiped out the global financial system, a new and much bigger commodities/derivatives bubble is threatening to…

• What Blows Up Next? Part 1: Resource-Based Economies

  Published 23 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The Great Recession and its aftermath was actually the best of times for countries with natural resources to sell. The US, Europe and Japan ran…

• Does A Commodities Crash Mean Global Depression, Mass-Devaluation Or Both?

  Published 21 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  First, precious metals peaked and began drifting lower. Then copper fell, oil plunged and it became obvious that these weren't isolated events. The entire commodities…

• Are Gold Investors Finally Capitulating?

  Published 20 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Sprott Asset Management's Rick Rule is one of the smartest guys in the resource investing world -- and one of the most reasonable -- which…

• Was Greece Always Part Of The Plan?

  Published 19 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Since its inception, critics of the eurozone have been pointing to its incomplete nature -- everyone uses the same money but keeps their own national…