John Rubino

Author and Website Editor
Contributor's Links: DollarCollapse.com

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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EC Is “Temporary Inflation” A Real Thing?
Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:39 PM EST
More debt won’t delay the Big D forever of course, but it might move it beyond the retirement date of most of the current political class, and for them, that seems to be enough.
In this article: IEF, JJC
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Well This Looks Disturbingly Familiar
Friday, February 26, 2021 5:31 PM EST
The financial markets are being rocked by rising inflation and surging interest rates, which in some ways present an even trickier challenge than COVID-19.
In this article: GLD, IEF, NDX
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If This Isn’t A Blow-Off Top …
Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00 PM EST
With everyone everywhere throwing money at overpriced assets on the assumption that the government will bid those assets still higher, we’re witnessing the greater fool theory taken to its logical extreme.
In this article: TSLA, NKLA, ABNB, IWM, SPX
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The Number That Blows Up The World, “Everything Bubble” Edition
Friday, February 12, 2021 12:22 PM EST
The current environment is similar to 1977, a time of rising but not yet runaway inflation, in which the mood is just beginning to shift from complacency to concern.
In this article: IEF, UUP, SPX
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Is This The Biggest Financial Bubble Ever? Hell Yes It Is
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 8:02 AM EST
The bond and money markets, made up of instruments that pay interest, are in the aggregate far bigger than the world’s stock markets.
In this article: UUP, BITCOMP, ETH-X
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Reddit Giveth, And Reddit Taketh Away
Tuesday, February 2, 2021 4:00 PM EST
For just a little while – literally a couple of days – silver stackers saw the light of sudden riches at the end of the tunnel.
In this article: PSLV, SLV
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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
OIL 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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Well Played, Mr. President. Sorry To Have Doubted You
The political and financial worlds were baffled by President Trump’s decision, just hours after being released from the hospital, to suspend coronavirus stimulus bill negotiations “until after the election”.
In this article: GLD
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Fine Art Is Outperforming Gold. Now It’s Available To Everyone
an Goghs and Warhols outperformed gold in 2018 and might do even better in the coming monetary reset.
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Work Experience

Website Editor
DollarCollapse.com
2004 - Present (17 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 (21 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.