John Rubino

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Great News For Gold Bugs: The COT Report Is Playing Out As Usual, Which Means Lower - Then Much Higher - Prices Coming

  Published 08 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  This year's recovery in precious metals prices - and the sudden spike in gold/silver mining stocks - convinced a lot of people that a new…

• Is Real Estate Finally Rolling Over?

  Published 05 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Amid all the epic financial bubbles that have emerged in the past few years, real estate has been a bit of an afterthought. Still, the…

• World Gone Mad, Part 1: 'Huge Demand' To Lend Italy Money For 50 Years

  Published 05 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  You read that right. Not only is Italy selling 50-year bonds, but people are lining up buy them. Italy's first 50-year bond sale had huge…

• Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Rates In This World? Bank

  Published 04 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  I know it's bad form to express sympathy for the people running the world's central banks. But come on, they're human beings in an impossible…

• Podcast: European Banks In The Eye Of The Storm

  Published 04 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, the Italian banks...it's getting ugly across the pond, and the worst is yet to come. Here's a brief look at the reasons…

• Signs of Panic!

  Published 02 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Deutsche Bank Published 10-01-16 25 Minute Video John Rubino and Gordon T Long discuss the unfolding mayhem in the European banking sector and specifically what…

• It's Not Just Deutsche Bank. The Entire Financial Sector Is Sick

  Published 01 October 2016 | viewed 0 times

  These are great times for financial assets -- and by implication for finance companies that make and sell them, right? Alas, no. Just the opposite.…

• What Blows Up First, Part 3: Really, Deutsche Bank?

  Published 26 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Calling Wall Street's banks stupid and dangerous is like calling the sun "big and warm." It's a clear understatement of an obvious fact. The same…

• Welcome To The Third World, Part 20: Poor Kids Become Prostitutes To Buy Food

  Published 14 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  One of the jarring things about visiting less-well-off countries is the seemingly inexhaustible supply of girls and boys available for anyone with hard currency. These…

• Podcast: Markets Explain Facts Of Life To Fed

  Published 12 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Last week the Fed found out what will happen if it raises rates: The global financial markets will melt down. So this morning a new…

• Here's How Europe Implodes, Part 1: Italian Junk Bonds And The End Of Austerity

  Published 11 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The "whatever it takes" economy is progressing nicely around the world, with governments and central banks doing things that no 20th century economist would have…

• Developing Countries Emulate The US, Turn Citizens Into Debt Slaves

  Published 08 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  One of the big advantages of being a Latin American or Asian country used to be — somewhat counter-intuitively — the lack of credit available…

• Welcome To The Third World, Part 19: Health Care Systems Break Down

  Published 03 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The most obvious difference between "rich" and "poor" countries is that the former provide health care for most or all of their lucky citizens. At…

• The Next Experiment, Part 1: Japan Prepares To Buy Pretty Much Everything

  Published 29 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  For most of the world, the past decade's monetary and fiscal experiments are viewed as failures. See, for instance, French support for the EU project…

• Have The Markets Become Too Big to Fail?

  Published 28 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long discusses with John Rubino Government Interference "Governments are acting like they don't think they can handle a garden variety equities…

• Welcome To The Third World, Part 18: Pensions Overwhelm Public Services

  Published 27 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Citizens of the developed world are watching Venezuela's descent into financial and political chaos mostly, it seems, with amused detachment, safe in the assumption that…

• Corporations - And Corporate Execs -- Fall Out Of Love With Their Shares

  Published 17 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  It's no secret that one of the main things propping up the US stock market has been corporations' willingness to buy back their own shares…

• Podcast: A Tough Time To Manage Money

  Published 16 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  In normal times, some asset classes are expensive others are cheap, making it easy to use historical relationships to decide where to invest. That's not…

• Even Hedge Funds Can't Understand Today's Manipulated Markets

  Published 15 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  One of the big surprises of the past few years is the number of brand-name hedge funds reporting terrible results. Their customers are not amused:…

• Why Interest Rates Can't Go Much Lower, In Five Charts

  Published 14 August 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Japan and Europe have been operating with negative interest rates for going on a year now, and this is what they have to show for…