"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •177 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 935.40 | -29.70 | -3.08% |
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WTI Crude •6 hours | 70.60 | +0.98 | +1.41% |
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Gasoline •6 hours | 1.958 | +0.012 | +0.64% |
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Ethanol •177 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •177 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 177 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 177 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 5 hours | 74.17 | +0.91 | +1.24% | |
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Natural Gas • 9 hours | 3.514 | -0.201 | -5.41% | |
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Heating Oil • 6 hours | 2.245 | +0.040 | +1.79% |
John Rubino
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Biography
John Rubino edits DollarCollapse.com and has authored or co-authored five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops, Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom, The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It, and How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust. After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a currency trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He now writes for CFA Magazine.
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If Other Gold Miners Can Do What Newmont Just Did, Look Out
The past few years have been brutal for the gold miners, most of which brought it on themselves by starting new, high-cost mines just in…
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US Factories Crushed By Strong Dollar
Government statistics are always suspect, for at least one obvious reason: Modern economies are way too big and complex to measure in real-time. So virtually…
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The Coolest Silver Coins, Finally Back On The Market
In 2005 a New Jersey car dealer named Chris Duane started questioning the system that let his customers borrow ridiculous amounts of money to buy…
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When All News Is Bad News
One of the defining traits of financial bubbles is the willingness of traders and investors to interpret pretty much everything as a buy signal. Rising…
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De-Dollarization
with John Rubino & Gordon T Long Published 04-20-15 35 Minute Video It Begins! John Rubino and Gordon T Long discuss the status of global…
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Is The Credibility Bubble Bursting?
In a fiat currency system, perception is, by definition, everything. Paper money has no intrinsic value. So the people saving it and accepting it in…
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2007 All Over Again? Let Us Count The Ways (And Remember What Happened Then)
There's a journalistic sub-genre that might be called "The Highest/Lowest Since XXX," in which a reporter takes a current statistic and illustrates (often with snazzy…
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Is A Trap About To Be Sprung?
New York artist Stephen Green's latest painting, DemandedDislocation, combines current affairs irony with a deeply sad vision of the future. Note the workers protesting for…
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OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?
When oil prices fell out of bed last winter there was much hand-wringing over the fate of the former beneficiaries of high-priced crude. Trillions of…
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Welcome To The Currency War, China Edition
Here's one for the "seriously, you're surprised?" file: China pegs its currency, the yuan, to the dollar, the dollar soars, taking the yuan with it...and…
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What Gold's Bull Market (That's Right, Bull Market) Means For Miners
One of the oddities of floating exchange rates is that they cause people to view the world in terms of their own national currency. For…
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GE Gets Out At The Top
Back in the early 2000s, General Electric -- previously known as the world's biggest, best managed maker of cool, useful things like jet engines and…
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More Scary Numbers
The list of things hitting cyclical peaks gets longer every day. Besides the nominal amounts (debt, derivatives, money supply) that are now at all-time highs,…
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Is The Whole World Slowing Down?
That stats just keep getting stranger and, if you're a policymaker or an investor, scarier. According to a (now widely publicized) McKinsey & Co study,…
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Clueless In The Middle East
Starting with the CIA's overthrow (and some would say murder) of Iran's democratically-elected president in the 1950s and continuing through our serial invasions of Iraq…
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Why We Feel So Poor, In Two Charts
Among the many things that mystify economists these days, the biggest might be the lingering perception, despite six years of ostensible recovery, that the average…
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Surprises and Disappointments Begin!
With John Rubino & Gordon T Long 36 Minute Video John Rubino and Gordon T Long discuss the overwhelming number of negative economic surprises and…
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We're All Hedge Funds Now, Part 2: Tech Startups and Nigerian Bonds
Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany…
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We're All Hedge Funds Now
As negative interest rates spread from Switzerland, Japan and Germany to the rest of the developed world, people with money to invest face some life-defining…
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We're Very Disappointed In You!
Another day, another "unexpectedly" bad economic report. Lately it seems like a lot of what US government statisticians say comes as an unpleasant surprise for…
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