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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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Torrent Of Bad News Greets Fed As It Prepares To Raise Rates
Ideally, a central bank would like the party to be rocking when it takes away the punch bowl. This party, however, is not cooperating.
Junk Bond Crisis Starts To Metastasize
With junk bonds finally reverting to their intrinsic value, the question on everyone’s mind is “what blows up next?
This Is How Fast It Happens
Investors who piled into the riskiest corners of the credit markets during seven years of rock-bottom interest rates are getting a reminder of how hard it can be to cash out.
The Least Surprising Stat Of The Week: Corporate Insiders Are Dumping Their Stock
Corporate insiders have been selling their shares at near-record levels, and according to some, this could be a sign for outside investors to start selling as well.
The End Is Near, Part 6: Individual Investors Rediscover Individual Stocks
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have become a huge hit with retail investors, for good reason but towards the end of bull markets small investors tend to rediscover their inner stock-picker. Just in time to get creamed in the subsequent crash.
Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People
Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the divergence between Fed tightening and ECB/BoJ/BoC easing.
How Low Can A Pension Fund Go?
While Chicago descends into a very public bankruptcy, Kentucky is, dollar for dollar, screwing up even more badly. Why should non-Kentuckians care? Many state pension plans are nearly as badly run with aggregate dollar amounts in the trillions.
The "Real Stuff" Economy Is Falling Apart
Each month one or two high-profile government reports show the US is growing, adding jobs and generally recovering from the Great Recession.
Money Is Becoming Unmanageable: Hedge Funds Post Losses, Face Outflows
Why are the worlds’ most successful investors having so much trouble lately? The short answer is that the markets they used to understand have been replaced by something very different.
Internal Bleeding, Cheap Tech, And Falling Angels
Think of “market internals” as the blood pressure and insulin levels of the financial world. They operate below the surface, frequently unnoticed, but over time they have a big say in the health of the patient.
Chinese Debt Snowball Gaining Momentum
It’s a safe bet that China, following the developed world’s lead, will soon toss a big chunk of its foreign exchange reserves. The result? An even more highly-leveraged world and Potemkin markets that look real but no longer are.
The Best Jobs Are Now In Government
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
Are Superbugs A Bigger Threat To The Global Economy Than Terrorism?
With less tourism comes less trade, and with less trade comes less growth — as if the already sputtering global economy needed another push towards the edge...a something serious that happened in, of all places, a Chinese pig farm
The End Of The Recovery, In One Chart
One of the questions on analysts’ minds lately is whether stock prices can keep moving up when corporate sales and profits are falling. But the same can be asked about the overall economy.
Is Anybody Okay Out There?
In normal times, the world’s major economies are a mixed bag. Some are up, some are down, some are placid, some are in crisis. It’s only at the boom/bust extremes that everyone finds themselves in more-or-less the same boat.
Corporations Are Liquidating Themselves, One Buyback At A Time
In every bubble there are trends so obviously crazy that it’s hard to see how anyone, let alone mainstream money managers, can buy in. And yet buy in they do.
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