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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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They’re Lying To Us, Part 5: Fake Credit Scores
Like any other weak-willed entity, an over-indebted country eventually finds that formerly-easy things get harder to do.
The Most-Anticipated Stock Market Crash
US equities have been going up for so long that most investors — especially those who were only recently enticed into the casino by the apparently easy money on offer — have trouble remembering the last time it was possible to lose big in stocks.
A Horrible Thought
Say you’re a sociopath who has spent the past decade with a government agency that, thanks to a fear of imminent terrorist attack, has been given effectively unlimited power.
And That’s A GOOD Thing??
John Rubino argues that we need to be cautious of another bubble in equities.
Happy Markets In An Unhappy World
The old Dickens quote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” is pretty much always applicable to a world as big and complex as this one.
Edward Snowden Towers Over His Enemies
It’s a short interview, just 14 minutes, but by the end it is clear that this guy is vastly smarter and more interesting than the politicians and bureaucrats who would like to hang him.
They’re Lying To Us, Part 4: Fake Pensions
Most people learn by the age of 10 or so that making promises is easier than keeping them. That’s why really big promises like corporate pensions and national retirement/health care programs are so easy to screw up.
They’re Lying To Us, Part 3: The Fake Stock Market
For the average person trying to decide how to feel about the economy, the single biggest data point is the stock market.
This Is Disgusting — And The Food Sounds Gross Too
It is by now generally understood, at least in the sound money community, that inflation is much higher than the government admits and that the true extent of the problem is being hidden in various ways.
Debt Makes You Dumb: Borrowing Just To Get By
As incomes stagnate and prices rise, a growing number of Americans face a tough choice: either descend a couple of rungs on the lifestyle ladder or borrow to keep it together.
They’re Lying To Us, Part 2: GDP
Today the US took its next-to-last stab at calculating First Quarter GDP, and the downward revision was impressive even by recent standards.
Gold Bugs’ Hearts Are Beating Faster
Gold and silver popped 3.5% and 4.8% respectively and the junior miners, which have been universally unloved lately, took off.
They’re Lying To Us, Part 1: Unemployment
One of the frustrating things about the monthly US jobs report is the way everyone focuses on the wrong number.
We Are So Not Prepared For Another Oil Shock
In one sense, energy doesn’t matter all that much to what’s coming. Once debt reaches a certain level, oil can be $10 a barrel or $200, and either way we’re in trouble.
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