John Rubino

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• Nope, Thats Not Money

  Published 19 August 2007 | viewed 5,686 times

  Prudent Bear's Doug Noland has for years been pointing out that one of the drivers of the credit bubble has been the ever-broadening definition of…

• Death Spiral

  Published 20 July 2007 | viewed 5,737 times

  In "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar," James Turk and I said this about the effect of a falling dollar on other countries: Recall that…

• This Time It's Value Traps

  Published 13 June 2007 | viewed 5,989 times

  Most financial bubbles are pretty easy to spot: An asset class climbs way beyond what old-fashioned valuation measures used to define as reasonable, market participants…

• Best Quotes of May 2007

  Published 11 June 2007 | viewed 4,705 times

  Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault A world run on two or three fiat currencies, issued and accepted by diktat...becomes only more likely every time that drug-lords…

• Best Quotes of April 2007

  Published 03 May 2007 | viewed 4,176 times

  Jeremy Grantham, Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo Everything is in bubble territory. Everything. From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair;…

• Can We Trust the Silver ETF?

  Published 09 April 2007 | viewed 6,167 times

  The introduction of precious metal ETFs is one of the reasons that gold and silver have been on a tear lately. But like any other…

• Best Quotes of March 2007

  Published 03 April 2007 | viewed 5,081 times

  Adrian Ash, BullionVault In short, the global boom in all asset prices has come thanks to one major bear market - the bear market in…

• Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?

  Published 22 March 2007 | viewed 7,344 times

  The Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer just published a really nice piece of investigative journalism, some of which appears below. This is pretty much self-explanatory, but…

• James Turk: $720 Gold in Two Months

  Published 06 March 2007 | viewed 5,758 times

  All you worried goldbugs out there, repeat after me: Corrections happen. Every bull market has lots of 5%-10% squiggles that look like the end of…

• Banks and Bubbles IV: Sudden Junk

  Published 03 March 2007 | viewed 5,577 times

  I had another installment of "Banks and Bubbles" all set to go today. This one was going to have a little fun with the rumor…

• Best Quotes of January 2007

  Published 07 February 2007 | viewed 5,552 times

  Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault Today's bubble in novelty and complexity is sure to blow up - if not in 2007, then all in good time.…

• Enormous Pressure on the U.S. Dollar

  Published 05 February 2007 | viewed 5,061 times

  Professor Piggington, a.k.a. my good friend Rich Toscano, recently teamed up with a San Diego money management shop called Pacific Capital Associates. Their new website…

• Best Quotes of November 2006

  Published 06 December 2006 | viewed 4,086 times

  Bill Bonner, Daily Reckoning A man can make a fool of himself whenever he wants. Generally, he pays the price himself and the rest of…

• The Whole World is Watching

  Published 26 November 2006 | viewed 6,009 times

  Thanksgiving weekend wasn't exactly peaceful for the world's central bankers. On Friday the dollar capped a down week with a near-vertical fall that only stopped…

• Best Quotes of October 2006

  Published 03 November 2006 | viewed 3,648 times

  Richard Daughty, the Mogambo Guru According to the great analyst Charles Kindleberger, financial crises are associated with changed expectations that lead owners of wealth to…

• The Asking Prices Were Realistic Eight Months Ago

  Published 12 October 2006 | viewed 4,693 times

  I guess that's it then. BusinessWeek and JP Morgan have called the bottom in the housing market, so we can all start snapping up McMansions…

• Best Quotes of September 2006

  Published 10 October 2006 | viewed 4,875 times

  Bill Bonner, Daily Reckoning Poor Mr. Typical has not had a wage increase since 1972, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's website. He earned…

• THE Question

  Published 28 September 2006 | viewed 5,552 times

  "Choose the form of your destruction." - Gozer the Traveler, Ghostbusters By now, pretty much the whole sound-money community agrees that humanity in general and…

• Best Quotes of June 2006

  Published 10 July 2006 | viewed 4,836 times

  Richard Appel, Financial Insights Great gold price spikes such as the one encountered in 1979-1980 were unusual events, but punctuated mankind's existence. Throughout history, when…

• 21st Century Jugger-not

  Published 03 July 2006 | viewed 5,139 times

  The other day Bloomberg ran an article on how all those doomsayers predicting a repeat of the 1970s are delusional. This paragraph pretty much sums…