John Rubino

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• Creeping Fascism, Part 3: They Really Are Watching You

  Published 28 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It's becoming easier every day to accept the miraculous as normal: GPS systems that somehow know exactly where you are and give you precise directions…

• When Hedge Funds Go Short, Gold Goes Up

  Published 20 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Bloomberg is reporting on the rising number of hedge funds shorting gold: Gold Bear Bets Reach Record as Soros Cuts Holdings Hedge-fund managers are making…

• Velocity of Money and the Crack-Up Boom

  Published 19 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Based on both recent history and mainstream economic theory the past few years should not have been possible. When you cut interest rates to near-zero,…

• Golden Bullseye

  Published 16 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  One of the lessons that gold bugs are learning, in the most painful way possible, is that you can't trade a manipulated market. When big…

• Preparing For Deflation

  Published 15 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Signs of a slowdown are spreading. Here in the US, despite all the happy talk about rising stock prices and falling deficits and the imminent…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 9: What's Wrong With These Pictures?

  Published 10 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Japan's currency devaluation has worked beautifully. The yen is plunging, Japanese stocks are soaring, and the current account surplus -- the main measure of a…

• One More Drop, Then Silver Back Above $25

  Published 08 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In this week's Q & A, National Numismatics' Tom Cloud updates his near-term precious metals price targets and explains why silver will rise faster than…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 8: US Issues Variable-Rate Debt

  Published 06 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It's easy to understand the attraction of things like adjustable-rate mortgages and teaser-rate credit cards. They give you cheap money up front and a few…

• As Trust Evaporates...

  Published 28 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has once again put the world's major hard news organizations to shame by describing, in comprehensible terms, the pervasive corruption at…

• First-Quarter GDP: Way Worse Than It Looks

  Published 26 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  First-quarter GDP came in at an annualized rate of 2.5% this morning, which is not terrible as growth goes these days (Japan and most of…

• Catherine Austin Fitts: Another Gold Smackdown Coming?

  Published 25 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the…

• News Flash: Economists Clueless

  Published 22 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Economist Robert J. Samuelson just published an unintentionally funny article in Capital Journal on the bemusement today's economists feel after being wrong about virtually everything…

• For Gold, Friday's COT Report Is Huge

  Published 18 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The dominant explanation (in the sound money community at least) for the precious metals crash is, well, sabotage. The metals exchanges were running out of…

• The Long Wave Versus the Printing Press: Another 2008?

  Published 14 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Marc Faber of the Gloom Boom Doom Report was interviewed by Bloomberg on Friday, and of course topic number one was the brutal takedown of…

• Welcome to the Currency War, Part 7: The Zero Sum Game

  Published 11 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Based on the past few weeks' stock market action, Japan's decision to flood the world with yen looks like a raging success. It's not of…

• Gold's Paper Price 'Doesn't Mean Anything'

  Published 03 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In this week's talk with National Numismatics' Tom Cloud, he explains why the reported price of gold is not the real price. DollarCollapse: Hi Tom.…

• The Other Currency War

  Published 29 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Most of the recent "currency war" talk refers to countries trying to lower the value of their currencies to gain a trade advantage and/or make…

• 'Risk-Free' Is So 2012

  Published 25 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  So you've got this pile of cash and you're not sure what to do with it. Nice problem, as problems go, but definitely not trivial,…

• Money In The Bank? No Thanks

  Published 21 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The West and the Rest, he presents a list of institutional arrangements that turned a bunch of ignorant, "malodorous" Europeans into…

• If This Isn't The Gold Bottom, It's Close

  Published 12 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In this week's talk with National Numismatics' Tom Cloud, he covers the tightness in the silver market and why the coming debt ceiling increase is…