John Rubino

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• A World Without Fractional Reserve Banks and Central Planning

  Published 27 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Excerpted From The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops by James Turk and John Rubino   In a very real sense, it is…

• Yeah, This Will Work Out Just Fine

  Published 26 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Islamic State (ISIS) has set a modern-day "emergent threat" record by going from obscurity to existential global menace in what seems like a matter…

• Europe Is Tanking, QE Is Coming

  Published 17 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Last year the world kind of forgot about Europe. After ECB head Mario Draghi vowed to "do whatever it takes" to get the Continent growing,…

• Variable-Rate World, Part 4: Japan's Home Buyers Up In ARMS

  Published 16 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Everyone knows that Japan deeply is in debt and one way or another is going to suffer for it. But for those who thought the…

• They're Lying To Us, Part 5: Fake Credit Scores

  Published 11 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Like any other weak-willed entity, an over-indebted country eventually finds that formerly-easy things get harder to do. Today, for instance, banks are having trouble attracting…

• Why We're Ungovernable, Part 10: The Republicans' Civil War

  Published 10 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Back when the republican party was actually the party of small government it was possible for country club moderates (white guys and their trophy wives…

• The Most-Anticipated Stock Market Crash

  Published 06 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  US equities have been going up for so long that most investors -- especially those who were only recently enticed into the casino by the…

• A Horrible Thought

  Published 31 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Glenn Greenwald's No Place To Hide chronicles his work with Edward Snowden to bring the US government's global surveillance network to light. It's a chilling…

• And That's a GOOD Thing??

  Published 28 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The past year has seen a long list of "XYZ is at its highest level since XXX" announcements. Some notable examples: NASDAQ tech stocks are…

• Happy Markets in an Unhappy World

  Published 24 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The old Dickens quote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is pretty much always applicable to a world as…

• The Tar Pit that is Financial Reression

  Published 19 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  With Gordon T Long & Co-Host John Rubino 30 Minutes, 15 Slides Macroprudential Policies of Financial Repression have been steadily accelerating since the implosion of…

• Edward Snowden Towers Over His Enemies

  Published 18 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Guardian just ran an interview with Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who blew the whistle on perhaps the most extensive secret spying program…

• They’re Lying To Us, Part 4: Fake Pensions

  Published 16 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Most people learn by the age of 10 or so that making promises is easier than keeping them. That's why really big promises like corporate…

• They're Lying to Us, Part 3: The Fake Stock Market

  Published 09 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  For the average person trying to decide how to feel about the economy, the single biggest data point is the stock market. When share prices…

• This Is Disgusting -- And the Food Sounds Gross Too

  Published 08 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It is by now generally understood, at least in the sound money community, that inflation is much higher than the government admits and that the…

• Debt Makes You Dumb, Part 2: Borrowing Just To Get By

  Published 01 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  As incomes stagnate and prices rise, a growing number of Americans face a tough choice: either descend a couple of rungs on the lifestyle ladder…

• They're Lying To Us, Part 2: GDP

  Published 25 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Today the US took its next-to-last stab at calculating First Quarter GDP, and the downward revision was impressive even by recent standards. It now appears…

• Mysterious Buying - US Treasuries and Equities

  Published 23 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  28 Minutes, 43 Slides With the aid of 43 slides, Gordon T Long and John Rubino debate three highly unusual and mysterious buying patterns which…

• Gold Bugs' Hearts Are Beating Faster

  Published 22 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Last Thursday was the kind of day that precious metals investors have been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for. Gold and silver popped 3.5% and…

• They're Lying To Us, Part 1: Unemployment

  Published 16 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  One of the frustrating things about the monthly US jobs report is the way everyone focuses on the wrong number. The headline says "unemployment falls..."…