Gold •66 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 918.70 | -11.60 | -1.25% | |
WTI Crude •1 day | 67.67 | -1.48 | -2.14% | |
Gasoline •1 day | 1.896 | -0.030 | -1.55% | |
Ethanol •66 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •66 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 66 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 66 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 1 day | 71.06 | -1.63 | -2.24% | ||
Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.275 | +0.021 | +0.93% | ||
Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.115 | -0.054 | -2.49% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
John Rubino edits DollarCollapse.com and has authored or co-authored five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops, Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom, The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It, and How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust. After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a currency trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He now writes for CFA Magazine.
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