John Rubino

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• Another Financial Crisis Is Coming

  Published 20 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In their 2004 book The Coming Collapse of the Dollar, James Turk and John Rubino advised readers to bet against the housing bubble before it…

• Money Bubble Part I

  Published 20 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  with John Rubino & Gordon T Long 21 Minutes, 22 Slides Join John Rubino and Gordon T Long as they discuss John's new book which…

• The Eurozone's Really Bad 2014, In Two Charts

  Published 15 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Headline writers have found some brutal things to say about the eurozone lately. To take just a few of the dozens of possible examples: France…

• Deflation Shock Coming? Or QE Euphoria?

  Published 09 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Taki Tsaklanos over at GoldSilverWorlds has reprinted a series of charts from Incrementum Lichtenstein that show a reversal in several big trends. Here are a…

• What Blows Up First? Part 2: Japan

  Published 06 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Of all the crazy financial stories of the past year, Japan's might be the craziest. To recap: For two decades, successive Japanese governments have fought…

• What Blows Up First? Part 1: Europe

  Published 30 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  2013 was a year in which lots of imbalances built up but none blew up. The US and Japan continued to monetize their debt, in…

• 2014 Themes: Part II

  Published 22 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  21 Minutes, 38 Slides As central macroeconomic questions, John Rubino lays out his Key Themes for 2014, his rationale for each and the global ramifications.…

• The Private Sector Is Borrowing Again - And That's Not Good

  Published 18 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Since at least the 1980s, US policy has been to convince us to borrow as much as possible on pretty much anything we could think…

• We Give Up! Part 2: Republicans Cave On Budget, Debt Limit, Everything

  Published 11 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  A growing number of Americans seem to have concluded that elections offer no real choice, that whoever wins is going to spend and borrow more…

• Welcome to the Third World, Part 12: Your Pension is an 'Unsecured Obligation'

  Published 08 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The main difference between well-run and badly-run countries is certainty. In well-run countries, money is worth pretty much the same from one year to the…

• If You Were Going to Buy a Mining Stock, Which Would It Be?

  Published 04 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Let's say you've got some traditional mutual funds full of stocks and bonds and they're way up. You're worried by all the taper talk and…

• China Gives Thanks For Cheap Gold

  Published 28 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Just a quick Thanksgiving morning update on China's gold imports, which continued at extraordinary levels in October. To put the 131 tonnes in perspective: Until…

• Inflation is Raging - If You Know Where to Look

  Published 24 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Most people - certainly most governments and economists - define inflation as a general rise in prices. But this is wrong. Inflation is an increase…

• The Money Bubble Gets Its Grand Rationalization

  Published 20 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Late in the life of every financial bubble, when things have gotten so out of hand that the old ways of judging value or ethics…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 11: Europe's Imploding Recovery

  Published 17 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  For a while there it looked like Europe was beginning to dig itself out of the pit into which it had fallen after the 2008…

• Miners Reporting Serious Progress

  Published 14 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  This was supposed to be the year that gold and silver miners pretty much imploded. The story in a nutshell is that during the boom…

• Fake Conflict: Fed Criticizes Big Banks

  Published 09 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Yesterday, Federal Reserve official William Dudley had some harsh words for Wall Street banks, sort of calling them criminals, among other things: New York Fed…

• That's a Lot of Silver...

  Published 05 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The Indian government has restricted the importation of gold. So Indians have switched to silver: Starved of gold, Indians may import record volumes of silver…

• China's Appetite for Gold: 'Waning' or Surging?

  Published 01 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Bloomberg's latest report on Chinese gold imports is a great illustration of a journalist's power to shape a message by highlighting certain data points and…

• DOW 20,000? or 5,000?? Part III

  Published 01 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  22 Minutes, 31 Slides In Part III of this series we ask John Rubino whether DOW 20,000 is directly ahead or DOW 5,000, and when?…