John Rubino

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• Long-Term Bonds and the End of Our World

  Published 23 November 2009 | viewed 5,167 times

  Nouriel Roubini warns that an asset bubble is building as money chases commodities. Asian countries are considering capital controls to stem the inflow of hot…

• Well-Written, Well-Timed: The Dollar Meltdown

  Published 18 November 2009 | viewed 4,438 times

  Charles Goyette is a veteran radio guy, a libertarian who supported Ron Paul before it was fashionable. Now he's written his first book, The Dollar…

• Reasons to Worry About Gold (In the Short Run)

  Published 09 November 2009 | viewed 3,436 times

  Let's start with a lesson that every investor eventually learns: Short-term trends are almost impossible to play consistently. I base this on both common sense…

• The Super-Rich Are Spooked

  Published 02 November 2009 | viewed 6,630 times

  A couple of seemingly unrelated articles in Friday's Wall Street Journal illustrate how life is getting more complicated for the super-rich. First, it seems that…

• So Many Shorts, So Little Time

  Published 14 October 2009 | viewed 6,084 times

  U.S. stocks are up again today, bringing the S&P 500's bounce off the bottom to 63%. All those buy-and-hold 401(K) investors (and the advisors who…

• Paying Off The Past

  Published 11 October 2009 | viewed 2,883 times

  Yesterday's Wall Street Journal ran a great, sad article on the effects of the credit bubble on low-income people. A few excerpts: The 'Democratization of…

• Ron Paul: Here Comes the BIG ONE

  Published 07 October 2009 | viewed 5,510 times

  Ron Paul has a bestseller. That sounds so nice I'll say it twice. Ron Paul has a bestseller. His new book, End the Fed, is…

• America and Britain Must Be Very Worried

  Published 06 October 2009 | viewed 6,686 times

  It's been obvious for some time that America's trading partners are caught in a financial catch-22: If China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia keep accepting dollars…

• Why Your Offshore IRA Needs an LLC

  Published 26 September 2009 | viewed 3,347 times

  A few months ago I interviewed Erika Nolan, executive director of the Sovereign Society, a consultancy that specializes in asset protection, for a magazine article…

• I'll Give Up My Chicken When They Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands

  Published 27 August 2009 | viewed 2,763 times

  Last week I had dinner with two friends, one of whom is what the mainstream would call a conspiracy nut. Over the course of a…

• Who's on the List?

  Published 19 August 2009 | viewed 3,788 times

  Yesterday's Wall Street Journal ran an article on Washington's ongoing attempt to discover where its citizens keep their money. Here's a quote that illustrates the…

• A Tremendous Secret

  Published 14 July 2009 | viewed 9,646 times

  Last week FOFOA posted a long article on the coming devaluation of the dollar and how it might play out. He thinks it will be…

• High-Level Monetary Discussion

  Published 27 June 2009 | viewed 3,587 times

  Transcript of GoldMoney's James Turk responding to questions/comments from Principally Correct, a visitor to DollarCollapse.com: Principally Correct: An author wrote in the FAQ on "fiat…

• No Gold, No Bullets: Now It's Personal

  Published 22 June 2009 | viewed 4,271 times

  Facts have a different feel when they're personal. And speaking personally, evidence that Americans are seriously spooked is starting to pile up. In the past…

• Is Your Gold Really There?

  Published 16 June 2009 | viewed 3,006 times

  March ... April ... June ... the Banking index climbed with the market. In early May, the Banking index topped out at 43.67. And then…

• Lessons From the Past

  Published 12 June 2009 | viewed 3,869 times

  Discover Magazine runs a monthly back-page feature called "20 Things You Didn't Know About..." that usually lives up to its title. In a recent issue…

• The Illusion of Safety

  Published 26 May 2009 | viewed 3,963 times

  Last week the Wall Street Journal published an article that (assuming it wasn't a clever satire) perfectly illustrates the train wreck that's in store for…

• Best Quotes of March 2009

  Published 01 April 2009 | viewed 4,164 times

  Ty Andros, Tedbits EVERYTHING is mispriced for what is unfolding. Stocks, Bonds, currencies, natural resources, precious metals, real estate are ALL set for massive VOLATILITY…

• Bears Call For a Rally

  Published 04 March 2009 | viewed 6,183 times

  After its worst year in living memory, the stock market is due for a bit of relief. Whether it turns out to be a dead…

• Best Quotes of February 2009

  Published 01 March 2009 | viewed 3,932 times

  Philipp Bagus and Markus H. Schiml, Ludwig von Mises Institute Only two things can save the Fed at this point. One is a bailout by…