John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Bad News For China: Bernanke Says It's Okay

  Published 27 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will be remembered by future generations as the guy who didn't see a housing bubble while he was creating it.…

• Canaries In The Coal Mine, Part 2: Three Chinese Stocks Lose $40 Billion In One Week

  Published 24 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The Chinese stock market's spectacular run is turning into a stagger: Two more Hong Kong stocks collapse after Hanergy crash (AFP) -- Two of Hong…

• Is Greece Still A Country If Someone Else Owns Its Assets?

  Published 22 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  This story isn't actually about Greece, but it begins there. After the country went functionally bankrupt a few years ago, the solutions proposed by its…

• Interpreting The Signals

  Published 21 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Published 05-21-15 43 Minute Video Connected in Strange Ways? John reviews the key messages in his latest 5 reports: Growth Currency War Collateral Damage: China…

• The End Is Near, Part 5: Paying Dividends With Borrowed Money

  Published 20 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  A recent Goldman Sachs report explains where this year's stock market profits (should there be any) will come from: Buybacks and Dividends All That's Left…

• Interest Rates Spiking Everywhere

  Published 18 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Just as ultra-low interest rates start to seem normal, the markets decide otherwise. US 10-year Treasury bonds yielded about 1.9% in April and are now…

• No Money, No Growth

  Published 15 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Last August, the US Fed stopped creating new currency out of thin air and dumping it into the banking system. Which is another way of…

• US Nearing Recession, Dollar Falling Hard

  Published 13 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The dollar soars by a record amount versus the euro and the yen in 2014. And economists predict strong growth in 2015. Really? If a…

• The End Is Near, Part 4: Peak Trophy Asset Inflation

  Published 13 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Stories about insane prices being paid for unique (and some not so unique) things are now a daily occurrence. A few examples: Picasso's Women of…

• Canaries In The Coal Mine, Part 1: Tech High-Flyers Fall To Earth

  Published 11 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  While the "stock market" continues to flirt with new records, there's turmoil under the surface. High-flying social media companies Twitter and LinkedIn fell hard in…

• Currency War Collateral Damage: China Stops Growing, Starts Easing

  Published 10 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  When a country pegs its currency to a bigger one like the US dollar, it in effect outsources its monetary policy to the operator of…

• Mediocre Is The New Perfect

  Published 08 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Three things happened this morning: The Labor Department reported a big jump employment; the financial markets responded like kids on Christmas morning; and -- with…

• The End Is Near, Part 2: Corporations Are The Ultimate Dumb Money

  Published 04 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  David Stockman just published a chart so compelling that he didn't feel the need to add any commentary. But there are a few things to…

• Why Investors Should Be Terrified, In One Chart

  Published 03 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Advisor Perspectives' Doug Short recently published an update on margin debt, accompanied by several well-made charts. But it only takes one to make the point.…

• When Big Names Say Bad Things

  Published 03 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Some well-known money managers have been badmouthing the financial markets for what seems like a really long time. Peter Schiff -- just as in the…

• Is Solar Power About To Crush Big Oil And Big Coal AND End Global Warming?

  Published 02 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Something amazing has happened in the energy market. The cost of solar power has fallen to the point where, in a growing number of places,…

• The End Is Near, Part 2: Everyone Piles Into Junk Bonds

  Published 02 May 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Six years into a recovery, stocks at record levels, high-end real estate in the stratosphere and debt levels soaring in virtually every public and private…

• Flat-Lines, Fed Rate Hike Evaporates

  Published 29 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  As pretty much everyone is now aware, US Q1 growth was way below expectations. And the only reason it was even marginally positive was because…

• Japan Hits The Easy Money Wall. We May Be Next

  Published 28 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Japan, whose monetary policy is by far the world's most expansive, just reported retail sales that soared on the wings of all that newly-created currency.…

• The End Is Near, Part 1: The 'War On Cash'.

  Published 27 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  As the saying goes, you can know a person by the quality of his or her enemies. This is also true of societies, where moral…