John Rubino

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• Creeping Fascism, Part One: Return of the Company Town

  Published 16 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The US government's obliteration of the Bill of Rights via the Patriot Act, the recent defense bill that allows the military to detain citizens indefinitely…

• Next Up: Portugal

  Published 14 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  It looks like Greece will get its debt restructuring, which presumably delays its collapse by a few months. So now the spotlight shifts to the…

• Yet Another Make-Or-Break Week For Europe

  Published 05 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Nobody expects Greece to default on its debt and leave the eurozone. But Greek leaders do seem to be squeezing as much drama as possible…

• A Shrinking Trust Horizon -- And Hard Times In The City

  Published 29 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Nicole Foss, who under the pen name Stoneleigh co-edits the Automatic Earth website, just did a long-form interview with an Italian magazine where she lays…

• Fed To Markets: Buy Gold And Silver

  Published 25 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The Fed just spoke. Here's a slightly edited transcript: Blah blah blah ... the economy has been expanding moderately ... blah blah blah boilerplate inanity…

• Why Isn't Illinois A Bigger Story Than Greece?

  Published 22 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As the Greek default (and it is a default no matter what they end up calling it) is finalized this week, the consensus seems to…

• Precious Metals Stocks: Diversify, Seriously

  Published 20 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Gold and silver mining stocks will be the dot-coms of the second half of this decade. Yet most of the people who bet on them…

• For Europe, Every Day Is A New Adventure

  Published 12 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Europe's parade of surreal financial news just keeps coming. This week, investors are paying Germany to take their money by accepting negative interest rates on…

• Complex Systems, Dysfunctional Industries, and Catastrophic Collapse

  Published 08 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Over the holidays we tempted fate by booking a multi-stage plane trip … and ended up with cancelled flights, missed connections, and blank-faced airline employees…

• Welcome To The Third World, Part 4: Boomers Reap What They've Sown

  Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It was fun while it lasted. We Baby Boomers got to diss our elders when we were young and borrow without restraint through middle-age. Few…

• Europe's Problem, America's Solution

  Published 13 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Greece has been out of the spotlight for a couple of weeks, which means it's past due for another market-rattling announcement. And sure enough, today…

• Currency Wars: 'Strong Yen Is Destroying Japanese Industry'

  Published 12 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The thing to understand about inflation is that if one major country does it, all the others have to do it too. A single country…

• This is Europe's 'Powerful' Plan?

  Published 08 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Europe's leaders have convened another summit meeting that will, they promise, put all the break-up speculation to bed once and for all. But the ideas…

• Fooled Again!

  Published 02 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The pattern is by now so familiar that it deserves a place beside other technical indicators like moving averages and Fibonacci retracements. It begins with…

• Make-Or-Break Week For Europe

  Published 27 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The people buying bonds issued by Italy and Spain are clearly looking past the dysfunctional balance sheets and focusing on Germany's reluctance to let a…

• Consumer Metrics Institute: GDP Report 'Does Not Bode Well'

  Published 22 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Consumer Metrics Institute, a consultancy with a good track record of year-ahead economic predictions, is out with its analysis of 3rd quarter GDP. By…

• Why Would Anyone Buy A Spanish Bond? Part 3

  Published 20 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Eurozone's descent into chaos is starting to get repetitive -- though with each iteration the numbers do get scarier. Back in 2010, for instance,…

• Welcome to the Third World, Part 3: Disappearing Pensions

  Published 08 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  One of the things that separate the "rich" world from the rest of humanity is the expectation that a lifetime of work is rewarded with…

• And You Thought the Real Estate Bust Was Over

  Published 07 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  This week all eyes are on Greece and Italy, which is reasonable since they're likely to be pretty entertaining. But as incredible as it sounds,…

• Gold Miners Are Growth Stocks Now

  Published 03 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Earnings season has, so far, been a mixed bag for most industries. But for gold and silver miners this is one for the record books.…