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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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US Factories Crushed By Strong Dollar
Friday, April 24, 2015 4:49 PM EDT
Government statistics are always suspect, for at least one obvious reason: Modern economies are way too big and complex to measure in real-time.
In this article: UUP
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Corporate Profit Pattern Emerges: Okay Earnings, Disappointing Sales
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10:57 PM EDT
If revenue is the important number, the portrait of corporate health now being painted this earnings season is pretty bleak.
In this article: T, EBAY, META, QCOM, TXN
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When All News Is Bad News
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:57 PM EDT
One of the defining traits of financial bubbles is the willingness of traders and investors to interpret pretty much everything as a buy signal.
In this article: GREK, FXE
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Is The Credibility Bubble Bursting?
Monday, April 20, 2015 2:36 AM EDT
In a fiat currency system, perception is, by definition, everything. Paper money has no intrinsic value.
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2007 All Over Again? Let Us Count The Ways (And Remember What Happened Then) - Part 1
Friday, April 17, 2015 12:57 PM EDT
For the first time since 2007, more than half of Americans, 52 percent, say their financial situation is “getting better,” a new Gallup poll shows. That’s up from a low of 29 percent three years ago.
In this article: GS, BX, WFC
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OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:36 PM EDT
When a central bank wants to tighten monetary policy, it sells bonds from its portfolio to investors in return for cash. That shrinking supply of spendable funds slows the economy down, moderates inflation — and frequently causes a recession.
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Welcome To The Currency War, China Edition
Monday, April 13, 2015 5:01 AM EDT
The Chinese Central Bank has relaxed rules on home purchasing, cut interest rates twice, and reduced the ratio of reserves banks are required to set aside in the past six months, with economists forecasting further stimulus.
In this article: CYB, UUP, GXC
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What Gold’s Bull Market (That’s Right, Bull Market) Means For Miners
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:24 AM EDT
One of the oddities of floating exchange rates is that they cause people to view the world in terms of their own national currency. For Americans that means looking out through a window that is distorted by the dollar’s recent surge.
In this article: GLD, UUP
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GE Gets Out At The Top
Friday, April 10, 2015 12:39 PM EDT
The company announced that it is selling a big part of GE Capital’s real estate assets and using the proceeds to buy back stock.
In this article: GE
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More Scary Numbers
Monday, April 6, 2015 2:11 PM EDT
The list of things hitting cyclical peaks gets longer every day. Besides the nominal amounts (debt, derivatives, money supply) that are now at all-time highs, some “as a share of GDP” indicators are starting to say similar, very scary things.
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Is The Whole World Slowing Down?
Monday, April 6, 2015 3:50 AM EDT
Conventional economic theory says that double-digit growth in debt and money creation should produce a boom, and that today our biggest problem should be too many people getting big raises at work. Yet that’s not the case at all.
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Why We Feel So Poor, In Two Charts
Friday, March 27, 2015 6:46 PM EDT
Among the many things that mystify economists these days, the biggest might be the lingering perception, despite six years of ostensible recovery, that the average person is getting poorer rather than richer.
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We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 2: Tech Startups And Nigerian Bonds
Monday, March 23, 2015 2:43 PM EDT
Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany in the same financial family.
In this article: JPM, AZSEY, PBR
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We’re All Hedge Funds Now
Friday, March 20, 2015 2:47 PM EDT
Public companies are finding that investing in their current business doesn’t pay nearly as well as borrowing money and using the proceeds to buy back stock. Pension funds, meanwhile, have more options, though the end result is the same.
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We’re Very Disappointed In You!
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 6:20 PM EDT
Another day, another “unexpectedly” bad economic report. Over the past couple of months it seems like a lot of what US government statisticians say comes as an unpleasant surprise for economists.
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Welcome To The Currency War, Part 18: Dollar Soars, Economy Disappoints
Friday, March 13, 2015 4:23 PM EDT
The point of competitive devaluation, aka currency war, is that a cheaper currency gives a country several advantages over its trading partners, leading to better growth and generally happier voters.
In this article: FXE, UUP
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