John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Contact Contributor

Biography

• When Earnings Disappoint In A Market Priced For Perfection

  Published 16 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  After today's market close there was a flurry of earnings announcements, some of which were way low. Not bad, mind you. In fact they were…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 15: Europeans Ordered to Start Consuming

  Published 09 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  For the past couple of years the European Central Bank has been the only sane inmate in the asylum. Unfortunately, in a crazy world being…

• High-Frequency Trading and the Shrinking Trust Horizon

  Published 07 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The list of markets where big players are cheating the rest of us (and each other) keeps growing. First there was the Libor interest rate,…

• Debt Makes You Dumb, Japanese Edition

  Published 02 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Debt works the same way for countries as for families and individuals. That is, if you borrow too much, your life begins to suck. And…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 14: Russia, China, India Bypass the Petrodollar

  Published 26 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  As it tries to punish Russia for the latter's dismemberment of Ukraine, the West is discovering that the balance of power isn't what it used…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 13: China's Turn

  Published 24 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It's amazing how quickly China went from being the world's savior to its biggest danger. To recap: When the developed world stepped off a cliff…

• Tangible Versus Financial Assets: The Great Migration

  Published 17 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Excerpted from The Money Bubble, by James Turk and John Rubino.   Wealth comes in many forms, but only two general categories: tangible and financial.…

• Full-Spectrum War, Peak Complexity, and Real Assets

  Published 05 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Not so long ago -- say when the Soviet Union was crushing rebellions in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in the 1960s or the US was invading…

• What Will Blow Up First? Part II

  Published 01 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  China? A Wealth Confiscation Shock Wave? 17 Minutes, 20 Slides In Part II of this two part series John & Gord continue on their around…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 12: Bankrupt Rome and Soaring Euro-Bonds

  Published 28 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Only in a world totally corrupted by easy money could the following two things be announced on the same day. First: European Bonds Surge as…

• China Gold Imports Surge - Or Fall. You Decide

  Published 26 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Chinese gold imports are becoming a case study in the power of journalists to control the slant of a story by deciding which facts to…

• A World of Manipulated Markets

  Published 23 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The following is excerpted from The Money Bubble, by James Turk and John Rubino   "There are no markets anymore, just interventions." - Chris Powell,…

• What Will Blow Up First? Part I

  Published 22 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Europe? Japan? Emerging Markets? 20 Minutes, 30 Slides In Part I of this three part series John & Gord takes us an around the globe…

• What Blows Up First? Part 4: China

  Published 19 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  To Westerners, China has always been a mystery. The huge population of very smart, hard-working people. The succession of unfamiliar, authoritarian governments. The sense that…

• Bitcoin and Gold: Currency versus Money

  Published 10 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Bitcoin holders -- especially those who bought in during the crypto-currency's recent surge past $1,000 -- are a bit shell-shocked this week: Bitcoin prices plunge…

• Bitcoin: Revolution or Trap? Part 2

  Published 05 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Adapted from Chapter 18 of The Money Bubble by James Turk and John Rubino   In 1999 a brilliant, erratic iconoclast named Shawn Parker aimed…

• Money Bubble: Part II - How Does It Unravel?

  Published 03 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  17 Minutes, 22 Slides Join John Rubino and Gordon T Long as they discuss John's new book which he co-authored with James Turk. In Part…

• Bitcoin: Revolution or Trap? Part 1

  Published 02 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  From Chapter 18 of The Money Bubble by James Turk and John Rubino: In the Internet's early days there was general agreement that one of…

• What Blows Up First? Part 3: Subprime Countries

  Published 26 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  One of the reasons the rich countries' excessive money creation hasn't ignited a generalized inflation is that today's global economy is, well, global. When the…

• 1% Plus $15: The Math of Poetic Justice

  Published 23 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Way back when, as a staff writer for a state business magazine, I used to do an annual feature on the state's highest-paid executives. In…