John Rubino

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John manages 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 ... more

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Jay Taylor: Under “Basel III” Rules, Gold Becomes Money!
Sunday, March 17, 2019 10:00 AM EDT
In 2018, central banks added nearly 23 million ounces of gold, up 74% from 2017. This is the highest annual purchase rate increase since 1971, and the second-highest rate in history.
In this article: GLD
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The Coming Wave Of Junior Gold Miner Buyouts
Friday, March 15, 2019 3:41 PM EDT
There’s nothing wrong with gold mining’s M&A situation that can’t be cured by a rising gold price.
In this article: GLD
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Central Banks Cave, Usher In The Crack-Up Boom
Monday, March 11, 2019 2:43 AM EDT
The other big central bank were supposed to join the Fed in “normalizing” interest rates and reversing the past decade’s QE experiment. Instead, they blinked and went back to aggressive ease, and the Fed is following them. This is a very big deal.
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Poetic Justice For The Aristocracy
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 3:33 PM EDT
Over the past couple of decades, the world’s central banks have been pushing rates lower in each cycle, impoverishing small savers and retirees while enriching the already rich.
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Three Junior Miners You’ll Be Hearing About
Sunday, March 3, 2019 9:43 PM EDT
In the notoriously hype-ridden junior miner space, there’s never a shortage of great-sounding stories. Most fail to pan out, but some end up succeeding in a big way. Here are three that have a good chance...
In this article: GBR.TSX, NSRPF, BKUCF
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Remember, The Fed Hasn’t Actually Done Anything Yet
Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:12 PM EDT
Last year’s Fed Funds rate increases are still in place, while the Fed’s balance sheet remains diminished. So the damage has not been undone, and it’s starting to bite.
In this article: SPX
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STOCKS I FOLLOW

BNDX Vanguard Total International Bond ETF
BWX SPDR Barclays Capital International Treasury Bond ETF
C Citigroup Inc.
DBJP DBX ETF Trust
DIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average
DXJ WisdomTree Japan Total Dividend Fund
EU WisdomTree Dreyfus Euro Fund
EWG iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund
EWJ iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund
FEZ SPDR DJ Euro Stoxx 50
FXI iShares China Large-Cap
GE General Electric Company
GIM Templeton Global Income Fund Inc.
GREK Global X MSCI Greece
IAU iShares COMEX Gold Trust
OILB iPath B S&P GSCI Crude Oil TR ETN
PGJ PowerShares Gldn Dragon Halter USX China
QQQ PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1
SGOL ETFS Physical Swiss Gold
SPY SPDR S&P 500
UCO ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil
UDN PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund
USO United States Oil Fund, LP
UUP PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund
UUPT PowerShares DB 3x Long U.S. Dollar Index Futures ETN
VGK VANGUARD EUROPEAN ETF
VGT VANGUARD INFO TECH ETF
XLK Technology Select Sector SPDR
YINN Direxion Daily China 3x Bear
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Work Experience

Website Editor
DollarCollapse.com
2004 - Present (15 years 5 months)
I manage DollarCollapse.com, a "gloom and doom" website that chronicles our ongoing descent into financial crisis, while offering investment advice designed to make the descent profitable if not fun.
Writer
CFA Magazine
January 2000 - Present (19 years 6 months)
I also contribute regularly to CFA Magazine, which goes out primarily to money managers and financial analysts.

Education

New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
MBA
1980 / 1983
Finance
Kent State University
BS
1974 / 1978
Economics

Publications

The Money Bubble
John Rubino, James Turk
DollarCollapse Press
01/02/2014
Chronicle of the financial mistakes made by the US, Europe, and Japan since the crisis of 2008, and strategies for investing for the inevitable next crisis.
The Collapse of the Dollar and How To Profit From It
John Rubino, James Turk
Crown Business
09/01/2008
Co-authored with GoldMoney's James Turk, a brief history of the policy mistakes that led to the ongoing financial crisis, and strategies for investing in precious metals and other hard assets to profit from what's coming.
Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom
John Rubino
Wiley
07/01/2008
A (a bit premature as it turns out) look at alternative energy and other clean technologies, with advice for investors on choosing among them.