John Rubino

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• Why Pensions Are A (Big) Black Swan

  Published 17 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  When talk turns to what might derail today's debt-driven "recovery," the big names and easy stories get most of the attention: China with its soaring…

• The Only Thing Growing Is Debt

  Published 16 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The past few days have seen another batch of blah economic reports in the US: (Reuters) - Weak U.S. retail sales hint at slower economic…

• Greece Holds Out, Wins Even Worse Deal

  Published 13 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The hostile takeover is almost complete. On Sunday Greece agreed not just to Germany's original demands, but to even more: (Bloomberg) - The conditions that…

• Greece Enters Its Crack-Up Boom

  Published 09 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The Austrian School of economics has a concept called a "crack-up boom" in which a critical mass of people conclude that their government is actively…

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

  Published 07 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  $1.4 trillion of Chinese stocks have stopped trading. Greece is finally imploding. The US trade deficit is widening on falling exports.Copper just fell back to…

• Another Fun Monday

  Published 05 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Last week began with crosscurrents that made it hard to predict. See On Monday, It's China Versus Greece. This week is starting with no such…

• What If You Had An Italian Bank Account? Or A Portuguese Bond?

  Published 02 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Though it might yet drag on for weeks, months or even years, Greece's drama can end in one of only two ways: Continued austerity which…

• On Monday, It's China Versus Greece

  Published 28 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Fear and greed are both getting a serious workout lately, but Monday will be even more fun than usual because of two big stories that…

• Another Week, Another Chinese Gold Mine

  Published 25 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Though the true amounts are debatable, it's generally conceded that China is importing a lot of gold. What's not included in this calculation -- but…

• Housing Recovery? Nah, It's Just Spiking Mortgage Rates

  Published 23 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  This morning saw two very strong housing reports: First-time buyers lift U.S. home sales to 5-1/2-year high WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home resales surged to…

• Is The Fake Recovery Becoming Real? And Would That Be As Bad As It Seems?

  Published 19 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The homebuilders are happy. US retail sales are up. Even France is "turning the corner." And now the Atlanta Fed, which has lately been both…

• Let's Just Get This Greece Thing Over With

  Published 18 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Guys, please. As much as we all love a good crisis, this is getting really tiresome. The threats, the name-calling, the apocalypse certain to occur…

• We're All Greek Now -- Some Just Don't Know It Yet

  Published 15 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Let's see...a heavily-indebted country can't pay its bills, engages in a long series of failed attempts to manage a partial, controlled default, sees most of…

• Is The Age Of Negative Interest Rates Ending Already?

  Published 12 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  History teaches that long trends end only when everyone is finally convinced that they'll keep going. Maybe no trend in modern times has been as…

• Turns Out There's Already Competition In The Gold-Backed Currency Space

  Published 09 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The splash that BitGold made recently by buying GoldMoney led many (including this writer) to assume that the Canadian start-up was pioneering the gold-backed currency…

• Is This Gold's Long-Awaited Killer App?

  Published 08 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Gold bugs around the world got a shock a few weeks ago when a tiny Canadian start-up called BitGold bought venerable GoldMoney, the second biggest…

• What Would Happen If Mainstream Investors Discovered Gold?

  Published 07 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  China, India and Russia are accumulating a lot of gold, but they're virtually alone. Traditional money managers, for a variety of reasons, view the metal…

• Who's Next? China Finally Starts Snapping Up Gold Miners

  Published 04 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  One (perhaps the only) bright spot in the past few year's gold market has been Chinese and Indian demand for the metal. Here's a chart,…

• Even The Good Numbers Are Bad

  Published 02 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  US factory orders tanked again this morning, and were generally reported that way at first. To take just a few of the low-lights: Factory orders…

• 2007 All Over Again? Mega-Merger Edition

  Published 01 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Intel is buying chip maker Altera. Charter is buying Time Warner Cable. All the big drug makers are buying all the mediums-sized ones. Great news,…