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John Rubino

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John blogs on Substack and is the former manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. His books include The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops (2014), The Collapse Of The Dollar And How to Profit From It (2008), Clean Money: Picking Winners In The Green-Tech Boom (2008) and How ...more
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Huge Miner Bankruptcies Possible Soon; Great News For Gold And Silver, Bad News For Streaming Companies?
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 4:16 PM EDT
The commodities bust may be about to claim some brand-name victims...
In this article: FCX, GLNCY Also: VALE, SLW
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OPEC Threatens, Market Yawns
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 3:01 PM EDT
Is the pain of low oil prices becoming unbearable for OPEC?
In this article: DTO, OIL, UCO, USO
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What Blows Up Next? Part 2: Pension Funds With Nowhere To Hide
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 1:00 PM EDT
Faced with spiking volatility in pretty much every market, it’s natural and reasonable to sell some risky assets and hide out in cash until the dust settles. So it’s not a surprise to hear that pension funds are doing just that.
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The Shrinking Global Economy, In Three Charts
Sunday, January 10, 2016 6:43 PM EDT
The US balance of trade (exports minus imports) has been rising lately Since a trade deficit subtracts from GDP growth, a shrinking deficit will, other things being equal, produce a bigger, faster-growing economy (that’s the mainstream take).
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This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, China Edition
Sunday, January 10, 2016 5:37 AM EDT
As China’s leaders figure out that pegging the yuan to the dollar while quintupling their debt in five years was a colossal mistake, they are, apparently, concluding that the only way out is a sudden, sharp currency devaluation.
In this article: GLD, CYB
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Perfect Storm!
Thursday, January 7, 2016 4:19 PM EDT
One of the fascinating things about this latest global financial crisis is that there’s no single catalyst. Unlike 2008 which could be traced to subprime housing, or 2000 when tech stocks crashed, this time seemingly-unrelated things are unraveling.
In this article: AAPL, AMZN, GLD, META
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Stock Market’s Remaining Pillars Are Crumbling
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 1:10 AM EDT
Once every decade or so investor credulity reaches a point where even seasoned money managers buy into the notion of “one decision” stocks — that is, shares of companies so insanely great that they’re virtually guaranteed to keep going up.
In this article: GE, XOM, AAPL, AMZN, NFLX, META, GOOGL
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Risk Off! For Now
Monday, January 4, 2016 11:10 AM EDT
Stocks are plunging everywhere (with the Chinese market closed because of instability), gold is surging, and the "buy the dip" voices in the mainstream media are vacillating between bemusement and panic.
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Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters
Sunday, January 3, 2016 4:12 PM EDT
Hedge funds, generally the most aggressive species of money manager, do a lot of “black box” trading in which bets are placed on previously-identified patterns betting those patterns will repeat in the future.Those strategies are now failing.
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More Ominous Charts For 2016
Saturday, January 2, 2016 5:45 PM EDT
If 2015 was the year in which no investment strategy worked, 2016 is looking like the year in which all economic policies fail. Already, at what should be the blow-off peak of a long expansion, US corporate profits are instead rolling over.
In this article: SPY
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A Monster With A Key To Its Own Cage
Monday, December 28, 2015 3:16 PM EDT
Out on the fringes of monetary policy, a merger of sorts is taking place between the debt jubilee and Modern Monetary Theory. The result — will make the past decade’s bank bailouts and QE programs look like kid stuff
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This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition
Sunday, December 27, 2015 3:56 PM EDT
For Canadians, with their weak domestic currency, gold has been behaving just fine. It’s up 17% in C$ terms over the past two years and looks ready to rally from here.
In this article: GG Also: GLD, FXC
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The End Is Near, Part 7: Governments Become (Really Bad) Money Managers
Thursday, December 24, 2015 2:44 PM EDT
2015 was a year Brazil would like to forget. Its economy crashed, its political class was decapitated by a corruption scandal, a huge iron mine dumped toxic waste onto a bunch of villages — and the sludge is now seeping into the ocean.
In this article: BZQ, EWZ
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The Dominoes Keep Falling: Leftward Lurches And EM Defaults
Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:56 PM EDT
Sometimes one big event dominates the landscape, like last week when the Fed raised interest rates. Other times a bunch of less-universally-significant-things add up to a meaningful story.
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The Recession And Bear Market Of 2016, In Two Charts
Sunday, December 20, 2015 3:28 PM EDT
If used car sales are an indicator of the future of new car sales, then overall business sales and industrial production will “surprise analysts” by plunging next year.
In this article: KMX, AN
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Market Figures Out Fed No Longer Has Its Back
Friday, December 18, 2015 2:55 PM EDT
US stocks soared while the Fed was meeting to raise interest rates this week — though it’s not clear why that should be so since monetary tightening isn’t generally a good thing for stock prices.
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