John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Best Quotes of January 2009

  Published 03 February 2009 | viewed 4,233 times

  Paco Alhgrin, Seeking Alpha Here, I'll simplify it: your government, through Legal Tender laws, is forcing you to use dollars to navigate the economy in…

• The Net Tightens

  Published 09 January 2009 | viewed 4,808 times

  Americans hoping to protect their wealth from a soon to be bankrupt and panicked government are finding that their options are few, and growing fewer…

• Best Quotes of December 2008

  Published 01 January 2009 | viewed 4,971 times

  Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault 'No Inflation, Constant Expansion' was a misnomer to start with, the lie of the first half undone by the scam of…

• Gold and Clean Tech: Two Sides, Same Coin

  Published 03 December 2008 | viewed 4,795 times

  Henry Kissinger used to say that the tricky thing about foreign policy is that information and options are inversely related. That is, when you have…

• Best Quotes of November 2008

  Published 01 December 2008 | viewed 4,527 times

  Jeffrey Christian, CPM Group At the end of the de-leveraging, you will see a divergence between gold and silver on the one hand and industrial…

• The Next Bull Market

  Published 14 November 2008 | viewed 7,861 times

  It took a few decades longer than it should have, but the world has finally figured out that leveraged speculation is not the path to…

• Best Quotes of October 2008

  Published 03 November 2008 | viewed 4,728 times

  Ted Butler, Investment Rarities Maybe one in a million of the world's citizens realizes that there is much more gold in existence than there is…

• More Good Timing For Peter Schiff

  Published 26 October 2008 | viewed 5,241 times

  It's been fun over the past few years watching EuroPacfic Capital's Peter Schiff educate mainstream (i.e. clueless) economists and money managers on CNBC and elsewhere.…

• Death Spiral Revisited

  Published 09 October 2008 | viewed 5,322 times

  Back in mid-2007 I posted a column titled "Death Spiral" that made some (for that time) extreme predictions. Here are the last few paragraphs: Anyone…

• Best Quotes of September 2008

  Published 01 October 2008 | viewed 4,675 times

  Ty Andros, Tedbits The greatest transfer of wealth from those that store their wealth in paper to those that don't is unfolding. ALL markets will…

• A Gift From the World's Central Banks

  Published 22 September 2008 | viewed 6,373 times

  Here we go. America's options have finally dwindled to just two: Accept a 1930s-style deflationary crash or embark on a Weimar Republic-style hyperinflation. There was…

• Best Quotes of August 2008

  Published 04 September 2008 | viewed 3,527 times

  Gene Arensberg, Resource Investor Everyone can look at the data and form their own conclusions. But when silver is in short physical supply, commanding injuriously…

• Best Quotes of July 2008

  Published 04 August 2008 | viewed 3,186 times

  Frank Barbera, Financial Sense The phrase 'systemic collapse' is rarely used in financial circles, but with housing collateral values in continued decline, there is an…

• McMansion Ghost Towns

  Published 03 August 2008 | viewed 5,161 times

  I just handed in a manuscript for a new book which contains the following sentence: "The image of McMansion ghost towns, once the wishful thinking…

• Time to Start Honing the Message

  Published 21 July 2008 | viewed 3,487 times

  For gold bugs, the past few years have been kind of peaceful, intellectually speaking. Because they understood the dynamic of fiat currency leading to excessive…

• The Juniors, Part One

  Published 18 July 2008 | viewed 3,013 times

  There are three kinds of precious metals investors, and only two of them are happy. Those who own mostly bullion (or its ETF or digital…

• The Wall Street Journal Senses That Something is Wrong

  Published 16 July 2008 | viewed 6,328 times

  A subscription to the Wall Street Journal costs several hundred dollars a year, so most people out there don't get it and DollarCollapse.com rarely posts…

• America, Ex-Distortion

  Published 13 April 2008 | viewed 3,070 times

  In yet another sign that the end is near, Harper's Magazine, that venerable fount of left wing culture, has become a source of clear-eyed financial…

• Shayne McGuire: The Early Innings of a Gold Boom

  Published 27 February 2008 | viewed 6,735 times

  My new friend Shayne McGuire is director of global research at Texas' $115 billion Teacher Retirement System, which means he oversees a vast portfolio of…

• After Denial Comes Accommodation

  Published 24 February 2008 | viewed 5,427 times

  Back in June of 2006 I posted some long excerpts from an internal report produced by Colorado & Santa Fe Real Estate, a Denver firm…