John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Classic Videos: Ron Paul During the Last Election

  Published 08 March 2010 | viewed 1,649 times

  The best way to understand how far the U.S. has drifted from its original design is to listen to Ron Paul. He sounds like Thomas…

• Inflationary Head Fake

  Published 05 March 2010 | viewed 2,998 times

  Today (Friday the 5th) has a meaningful feel. The news is good on U.S. employment and Greek finances, and the markets are in recovery mode:…

• China and Germany: The Perils of Vendor Financing

  Published 27 February 2010 | viewed 1,143 times

  In response to Why Would Anyone Buy a Spanish Bond?, reader RAID 3000 pointed out that the U.S. has far more serious problems than Europe…

• Mr. Bernanke has Acknowledged the Allure of a Higher Inflation Goal

  Published 23 February 2010 | viewed 2,133 times

  Major policy changes usually start out as trial balloons, ideas placed with sympathetic media outlets that float around and draw reactions from the affected parties.…

• Classic Videos: Hyperinflation Nation Part 1/3

  Published 22 February 2010 | viewed 2,420 times

  With guys like Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Marc Faber suddenly getting a lot of airtime, the number of compelling videos available on YouTube is…

• Redoing the Kitchen While the House Burns Down

  Published 15 February 2010 | viewed 3,356 times

  Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank is by far the most interesting part of that paper's dull gray Op Ed page. Back in January he…

• Another Day, Another Bail-Out

  Published 09 February 2010 | viewed 3,076 times

  With a bail-out of Greece apparently immanent and everyone drawing parallels between the PIGS countries and the Wall Street firms that nearly cratered the global…

• Lies We're Being Told: Interest is Consumption, Saving is "a Negative Act"

  Published 02 February 2010 | viewed 3,818 times

  The latest piece of deep thought from iTulip's Eric Janszen explains why, if the recession is over, so many people remain in such bad shape.…

• What Does Japan's Implosion Mean For the Rest of Us?

  Published 26 January 2010 | viewed 4,484 times

  Standard & Poor's is threatening to cut Japan's credit rating, which doesn't sound like that big a deal in a world where no one's credit…

• Sharks in Offshore Waters, Part Three

  Published 25 January 2010 | viewed 3,388 times

  Two things are certain about moving money overseas: First, it's necessary if you want to shield at least some of your savings from the capital…

• If Only

  Published 20 January 2010 | viewed 4,034 times

  A Wall Street Journal columnist named Thomas Frank just made a great suggestion: One Cross of Gold, Coming Up How the government could get even…

• Sharks in Offshore Waters, Part Two

  Published 20 January 2010 | viewed 2,952 times

  Offshore investing is one of those things that's easy to do but hard to do well. Whip out a reasonably hefty checkbook and you'll find…

• Sharks in Offshore Waters, Part One

  Published 15 January 2010 | viewed 2,552 times

  Last month I wrote an article for CFA Magazine on the pitfalls of offshore investing. It's a long piece, so it will appear here in…

• Hyperinflation History: La Terreur

  Published 12 January 2010 | viewed 3,998 times

  A while back a reviewer dismissed the idea of a dollar collapse by asking "Collapse against what?" His argument was that the other major currencies…

• Irony: Andrew Jackson On a Federal Reserve Note

  Published 10 January 2010 | viewed 2,701 times

  Karl Golovin, a retired customs agent and security director for Ron Paul's presidential campaign, just forwarded a transcript of Andrew Jackson's farewell address. It's pretty…

• Health Care: Here Come the Unintended Consequences

  Published 06 January 2010 | viewed 2,866 times

  As a general rule, DollarCollapse.com doesn't get involved in public policy debates. Not because they aren't important, but because the damage has already been done.…

• The Difference a Printing Press Makes

  Published 03 January 2010 | viewed 3,082 times

  Contrast how the best-run U.S. states are responding to the recession -- cutting services, laying off workers, raising taxes, and generally making hard choices --…

• The Last Time That Happened Was During the Great Depression

  Published 27 December 2009 | viewed 7,318 times

  Until a few years ago, running a U.S. city was pretty easy. You added services when voters asked, you hired more workers (who were likely…

• To Borrow or Not to Borrow

  Published 20 December 2009 | viewed 2,965 times

  I just got off the phone with a friend who's buying some commercial real estate but isn't sure how to pay for it. Should he…

• Can You Afford Fries With That?

  Published 09 December 2009 | viewed 4,182 times

  This showed up in my mailbox this morning: THE ECONOMY IS SO BAD.......... The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card…