John Rubino

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• Inflation Chronicles, Part 1: Art Prices So High, 'The Crowd Forgot To Clap'

  Published 13 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Depending on which expert is talking, the world is either falling into a deflationary abyss or launching an inflationary moonshot. What's truly weird and fascinating…

• Did Gold and Silver Just Get Their 'Greenspan Put'?

  Published 07 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The world's central banks and derivatives traders have been having their usual fun with gold and silver lately, dumping huge volumes of futures contracts into…

• A Sunny Silver Forecast: Low Price Today Means High Price Tomorrow

  Published 03 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Solar power has been the next big thing in energy for as long as most people have been alive. But it was always too expensive…

• US Now Importing the World's Deflation

  Published 31 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  With US QE about to end, the rest of the world faced the prospect of another "taper tantrum" financial crisis, one that this time around…

• Federal Reserve to Markets: You're Too Easy!

  Published 26 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  As the end of the latest quantitative easing program approached, everyone was wondering if history would repeat in the form of a stock market correction…

• Goodbye War On Drugs, Hello Libertarian Utopia. Dominic Frisby's Bitcoin: The Future of Money?

  Published 21 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Now that bitcoin has subsided from speculative bubble to functioning currency (see the price chart below), it's safe for non-speculators to explore the whole "cryptocurrency"…

• Phase Shift?

  Published 18 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Does the Current Market Volatility Signal A Trend Change in Sentiment? 31 Minutes, 49 Slides Gordon T Long poses three questions for debate with John…

• Suddenly, We Have Problems

  Published 13 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  A rising stock market, like a rising tide, can cover a multitude of interesting and/or scary things. If the finance guys who really know what's…

• Fed Smacks Dollar; Europe and Japan Lose Hope

  Published 08 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  FOMC's fear of a strong dollar drives greenback lower NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. dollar turned lower against rivals Wednesday afternoon after the FOMC…

• The Soaring Dollar Debate: Good, Bad, Ugly

  Published 05 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The dollar is on a tear. And the world is scrambling to figure out what it means. Beginning with the always-interesting Martin Armstrong in a…

• 'Money Bubble' Predictions Coming True, Part 1: Stock Market Volatility Surges

  Published 03 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops, James Turk and I climb out on some long, skinny limbs with a series of…

• Does Surging Demand For Gold and Silver Coins Signal a Bottom?

  Published 28 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Reports of individuals snapping up near-record numbers of gold and silver coins are coming in from around the world: U.S. Mint American Eagle gold coin…

• Are Cars About to Crash?

  Published 26 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  New car sales have been one of the bright spots of the US recovery. And they're still at it: September U.S. auto sales to rise…

• Why Isn't Housing A Bubble?

  Published 22 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In his book The Postcatastrophe Economy, iTulip's Eric Janszen notes that financial bubbles don't repeat. That is, yesterday's bubble is never tomorrow's because hot money…

• Is Citigroup the Dumbest Bank Ever?

  Published 17 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Back in 2006, when the housing bubble was entering its truly (and obviously) manic phase, mega-bank Citigroup was being pressured by Wall Street to grow…

• They Really Mean

  Published 16 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Nearly a century after the fact, the Great Depression remains THE object lesson for virtually every branch of economics. To monetarists the fact that the…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 17: The Dollar's Turn to Cause a Recession

  Published 16 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Europe is an economic basket case while the US is kind-of sort-of recovering. Why? Several reasons, but the only one that really matters these days…

• Full Frontal Inflation

  Published 10 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  By now it's an article of faith within the sound money community that most major countries have borrowed so much that they're left with only…

• Real Interest Rates and Future Chaos

  Published 07 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The folks at Gresham's Law just published a nifty interactive chart of real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) interest rates since the 1960s that explains a lot about…

• Off-Topic But a Great Cause

  Published 02 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  When today's global financial system finally implodes and is (hopefully) replaced by something sustainable, one of the next big challenges will be preparing our kids…