John Rubino

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• 2007 All Over Again, Part 6: Stock Valuations Enter 'Crash' Territory

  Published 11 December 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The Trump Christmas stock market rally has taken valuations beyond a point that in the past has signaled trouble, which in turn has generated a…

• Euro Devaluation Accelerates - Millions Of Europeans Wishing They'd Bought Gold

  Published 08 December 2016 | viewed 0 times

  ECB Chairman Mario Draghi's announcement of bigger and better QE this morning should have surprised no one. The fact is that the eurozone is coming…

• The Variable-Rate World Stares Into The Abyss - Again

  Published 06 December 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Back in 2013 interest rates in the US and elsewhere started to rise, and the results were scary to put it mildly. Here's an excerpt…

• Podcast: All Eyes On Italy

  Published 02 December 2016 | viewed 0 times

  It's rare for the world to worry about Italy. But Sunday's referendum has the global Establishment on the edge of its seat. The worst case…

• These Were Supposed To Be Hillary's Numbers!

  Published 30 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Good headlines just keep coming. The Chicago PMI index of Midwest economic activity jumps to its highest level in two years. The ADP employment report…

• Welcome To The Currency War, Part 23: Europe Will Devalue Or Dissolve

  Published 27 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  No rest for the wicked. With the shockwaves from Brexit and President Trump still reverberating around the world, the established order is bracing for more…

• Another Election Year, Another Bunch Of Fake Growth Numbers

  Published 23 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Some pretty good economic reports have energized various parts of the financial markets lately. Consumer spending is up, GDP is exceeding expectations and even factory…

• Speculators Are Finally Bailing Out Of Gold – And That's A Good Thing

  Published 19 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  All this talk of massive new infrastructure spending financed with a tsunami of freshly-minted currency should be lighting a fire under gold. That it hasn't…

• So Much For Electing An Outsider

  Published 19 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  During his run for the presidency, Donald Trump took the occasional break from insulting women and minorities to toss off some decent - even exciting…

• Krugman Gets His Alien Invasion - And Gold Bugs Get Paradise

  Published 13 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Nobel Prize winning economist and uber-liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman likes to illustrate his philosophy by noting that the threat of an alien…

• Why We're Ungovernable, Part 15: Glenn Greenwald Explains The Election

  Published 09 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The world's elites, because they live in a system created by themselves for themselves, tend to see events like Brexit and President Trump as aberrations…

• We're All Hedge Funds Now, Part 4: Central Banks Become World's Biggest Stock Speculators

  Published 07 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  At first, the idea of central banks intervening in the equity markets was probably seen even by its fans as a temporary measure. But that's…

• This Is What Gold Does In A Political Crisis, 'Trump Might Actually Win' Edition

  Published 02 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  A week ago it looked like the US government was destined to end up firmly -- maybe even more firmly — in the hands of…

• Don't Sweat The Election. The Next Crisis Is Already Baked Into The Cake

  Published 31 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Friday was one of those days where you walk away from the screen for a minute and come back to find a completely different market.…

• This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Brexit Edition

  Published 26 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  In June the UK shocked the world - or at least the world’s elites - by voting to pull out of the European Union. Economists…

• Stupid Stuff, Late-2016 Edition

  Published 25 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Cyclical turning points tend to feature large numbers of people doing and saying what in retrospect turn out to be amazingly dumb things. Think GM…

• The Boredom Before The Storm

  Published 23 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  With all the surprising and/or disturbing things going on - Brexit, China's soaring debt, US/Russia/China saber rattling, the, um, unique US presidential race, the cyber…

• More Good News For Gold Bugs: The Bottom Is Getting Closer

  Published 16 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  In the latest gold and silver commitment of traders (COT) report (click here for an explanation of what this report involves), paper players made big…

• The Floodgates Begin To Open

  Published 16 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  It's now clear that what governments did to counter the Great Recession may have delayed systemic collapse, but did not resurrect the old normal. Growth…

• World Gone Mad, Part 2: 'Perpetual Preferred'

  Published 09 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Towards the end of a credit bubble, ideas that might have seemed crazy in more boring times are not just accepted but embraced by investors…