Yet Another Trillion-Dollar Unfunded Liability: WHY California Is Burning
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 17: In Latin America, Soaring Population + Soaring Debt = “Brutal Justice”
By: John Rubino

Empty Words Are Failing. A Timeline For What Comes Next
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 16: France On Fire
By: John Rubino

Home Sales Plunge, Trade Deficit Spikes, Fed Blinks
By: John Rubino

The Cost Of Insurance Is About To Jump
By: John Rubino

Gold Is Setting Up For A Nice First-Half Rally
By: John Rubino

Has This Become A “Short Everything In Sight” Market?
By: John Rubino

Corporate Share Buybacks Looking Dumber By The Day
By: John Rubino

GE, Nvidia, Nordstrom, Bitcoin All Tank, And The Fed Notices
By: John Rubino

As Oil Plunges, Energy Junk Bonds Turn Dangerous — Again
By: John Rubino

A Palpable Sense Of Panic
By: John Rubino

Yet Another Trillion-Dollar Unfunded Liability, California Wildfires Edition
By: John Rubino

Oil And General Electric Join The Roll-Over Parade
By: John Rubino

The Election’s Finally Over. Now Things Can Go Back To “Normal”: Rising Interest Rates, Rising Debt, Rising Volatility
By: John Rubino

The World’s Smartest Investors Can’t Figure Out The Markets – And That’s A Really Bad Thing
By: John Rubino

New York City Joins The “Imminent Bankruptcy” Club
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 15: After Germany’s Merkel Comes Chaos
By: John Rubino

Here Comes The Housing Bust “Reverse Wealth Effect,” Australia Edition
By: John Rubino

This Is What A Paper Gold Short Squeeze Looks Like
By: John Rubino

Gold Is Becoming Cool Again
By: John Rubino

One More Thing To Worry About, Saudi Edition
By: John Rubino

Last Week Was Just A Taste Of The Coming Gold Short Squeeze
By: John Rubino

Rising Interest Rates Start Popping Bubbles — The End Of This Expansion Is Now In Sight
By: John Rubino

Notice How Quickly Market Psychology Changed?
By: John Rubino

US Interest Rates Are Spiking Again: Why This Is A Huge Deal
By: John Rubino

Another Trillion-Dollar Unfunded Liability, Part 2: Running The Hurricane Numbers
By: John Rubino

Italy Calls Europe’s Bluff — And The Euro Loses Either Way
By: John Rubino

The Fed’s In A Box And People Are Starting To Notice
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 15: Germany’s Merkel Demoted To Figurehead
By: John Rubino

Yet Another Trillion-Dollar Unfunded Liability: Too Many People In Hurricane Alley
By: John Rubino

The Paper Gold Market Is Screaming “Short Squeeze”
By: John Rubino

From Buenos Aires To Nashville: The Emerging Market Crisis Spreads From Periphery To Core
By: John Rubino

Even Mortgage Lenders Are Repeating Their 2006 Mistakes
By: John Rubino

Gold And Silver Are Acting Like It’s 2008. They May Be Right
By: John Rubino

More Emerging Market Chaos – How Long Before It Spreads To The Developed World?
By: John Rubino

Let The Emerging Market Bailouts Begin: “We Don’t Have Much Choice”
By: John Rubino

Is Tunisia the next emerging market to implode?
By: John Rubino

Great News For (The Remaining) Gold Bugs: Gold AND Silver Futures Speculators Are Now Net Short
By: John Rubino

Here’s How “External Dollar Debt” Produces An “Emerging Market Crisis”
By: John Rubino

Spectacular Gold COT Report: Prepare For A Huge Six Months
By: John Rubino

Why Aren’t Widespread Labor Shortages Translating Into Roaring Wage Inflation?
By: John Rubino

Another Way Of Looking At The Pension Crisis, As “A Stealth Mortgage on Your House”
By: John Rubino

Another Week, Another Improvement In Gold’s Prospects
By: John Rubino

New Age Fiscal Stimulus Is Unprecedented — And Ominous
By: John Rubino

Is The Interest Rate Death Spiral Finally Starting?
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 28: The “Bottom Half” “Bolsters” The Economy By Going Into Debt
By: John Rubino

Public Sector Pensions: The Parasite Devours Its Host
By: John Rubino

Gold And Silver Futures Action Turning Positive
By: John Rubino

Michael Pento: How The Trade War Will Hurt The US — And The World
By: John Rubino

US Housing Bubble Enters Stage Two: Suddenly-Motivated Sellers
By: John Rubino

Student Debt Bubble Expands As Parents Do More Of The Borrowing
By: John Rubino

We Give Up! Part 3: China Stops Deleveraging, Tells Cities To Ramp Up Spending
By: John Rubino

Rising Wages = Shrinking Corporate Profit Margins … And Falling Stock Prices?
By: John Rubino

Inflation Is Back, Part 9: Two Sentences Say It All
By: John Rubino

Inflation Is Back, Part 8: Labor Shortage Reaches “Critical” Point
By: John Rubino

Things Are Lining Up Nicely For Gold And Silver
By: John Rubino

US Political Center Is Being Devoured From Both Right And Left
By: John Rubino

Emerging Market Crisis Spreads To The Core, Central Banks Face Catch-22
By: John Rubino

Is China Part Of The “Emerging Market Crisis”?
By: John Rubino

If Bitcoin’s Rise Was Bad For Gold, Will Its Fall Be Good?
By: John Rubino

Housing Bubble Pathologies, Part 2: Fewer Babies And More Stressed-Out Renters
By: John Rubino

Failed States, Part 1: Hopeless European Millennials And The Populist Takeover
By: John Rubino

Oil, The Petrodollar, And The Next Emerging Market Crisis
By: John Rubino

We’re Shocked! Shocked! To Hear That Corporate Execs Use Share Buybacks To Line Their Own Pockets
By: John Rubino

Inflation Is Back, Part 7: Just Check Out This Chart
By: John Rubino

When Will Gold’s “Summer Doldrums” End? History Says Pretty Soon
By: John Rubino

“Junk In The Trunk” – Investors Get “Comfortable” With Subprime Auto Loan Bonds
By: John Rubino

Inflation Is Back, Part 6: More People Now Expect Higher Prices
By: John Rubino

Late-Cycle Sadness: Value Investors Give Up And Buy Netflix, Apple
By: John Rubino

A Spiking Dollar = Emerging Market Chaos, Part 2: The Story In Four Charts
By: John Rubino

Japan Shows Why — And How — All Fiat Currencies Are Doomed
By: John Rubino

The Next Populist Political Issue Emerges: CEO Pay
By: John Rubino

Debt Slaves, Part 1: Million Dollar Student Loans And The Coming Bailout
By: John Rubino

The Number That Ends This Cycle…Part 2: Goldman Sachs Makes Its Choice
By: John Rubino

Is Oil About To Become Front-Page News? “A Glut That Held Prices Down For Years Is Essentially Gone”
By: John Rubino

Italy: An Anti-Euro Government Takes Power In the Heart Of The Eurozone
By: John Rubino

There’s A Number That Ends This Cycle — But What Is It?
By: John Rubino

Russia Deploys Exotic New Weapon: A “Budget Surplus”
By: John Rubino

The 1970s All Over Again? Part 1: The Middle East Explodes
By: John Rubino

New Loan Sharks Entering The Credit Card Business
By: John Rubino

Here’s When Everyone Should Have Known That Argentina Would Implode
By: John Rubino

Paper Gold Market Normalizing, Silver Getting Even More Extreme
By: John Rubino

Argentina Joins Venezuela In The Currency Crisis Club
By: John Rubino

Inflation Is Back, Part 5: “The Cost To Run A Restaurant In New York City Is Unbearable”
By: John Rubino

Inflation Is Back: Maybe The Phillips Curve Was “Just Resting”
By: John Rubino

Gold And Silver: Sell In May And Go Away? Not Exactly
By: John Rubino

America’s Dumbest Companies Repeat Their Biggest Mistakes
By: John Rubino

When Investor Psychology Turns Dark, All News Is Bad News
By: John Rubino

Fake Markets Produce A Fake Economy
By: John Rubino

More Signs Of Inflation: Home Prices Jump Again And “$3 Gas Is Coming”
By: John Rubino

More Absolutely Crazy Pension News
By: John Rubino

This Really Is The Everything Bubble: Even Subprime Mortgage Bonds Are Back
By: John Rubino

Gold Tests Resistance – Again
By: John Rubino

Illinois Enters Its Death Spiral
By: John Rubino

Strange Times In A Strange Sector: The US Housing Market Goes “Brutal”
By: John Rubino

Silver Finally Starts To Catch Up With Gold
By: John Rubino

Three Mini-Bubbles Burst. Is One Of The Big Ones Next?
By: John Rubino

“Tech Wreck,” “Techlash,” “Techmageddon” – Whatever You Call It, Wall Street Is Terrified Of It
By: John Rubino

What Do Higher Interest Rates Mean? Part 1: No More Refis
By: John Rubino

Silver Speculators Go Short – Which Is Extremely Bullish
By: John Rubino

A Glimpse Of Precious Metal Mining’s Future: Hecla Buys Klondex For 59% Premium
By: John Rubino

Yet Another Chart That Screams “Look Out!”
By: John Rubino

Yield Curve Turns Threatening – Again
By: John Rubino

A Bull Market For The History Books — Bear Market To Follow Shortly
By: John Rubino

Wage Inflation Coming. Does This Mean Spiking Interest Rates?
By: John Rubino

Doug Noland: No Bailouts Anytime Soon, So Let Those Short Bets Run
By: John Rubino

China Takes Dictatorship To The Next Level. History Says It Won’t Work
By: John Rubino

Consumers In Surprising Places Are Borrowing Like Crazy
By: John Rubino

Now We Know How Far Stocks Have To Fall For The Fed To Act
By: John Rubino

2018: The Year Of The Margin Call
By: John Rubino

Unintended Consequences, Part 1: Bigger Deficits = Higher Interest Rates =…Many Bad Things
By: John Rubino

Find The Sentence That Dooms Pension Funds (Don’t Worry, It’s Highlighted)
By: John Rubino

Gold: Another Month, Another Test Of Key Resistance – But This Time With A Difference
By: John Rubino

Loan Shark Nation: Forcing Our Kids To Choose Between Student Loans And Everything Else
By: John Rubino

The World Embraces Debt At Exactly The Wrong Time
By: John Rubino

The Fed’s Impossible Choice, In Three Charts
By: John Rubino

Remember When Stocks Only Went Up?
By: John Rubino

Really Bad Ideas, Part 6: Money That “Rots And Rusts”
By: John Rubino

The 1% Get A Scare — More To Come?
By: John Rubino

Gold-Backed Cryptocurrencies: Icing On An Already Tasty Cake
By: John Rubino

How Did That Get Into My Bond Fund??
By: John Rubino

Gold Jumps To Crucial Technical Level. Important Action Coming Up
By: John Rubino

The (Suddenly Weak) Dollar Is Back In The Spotlight
By: John Rubino

So That’s What Volatility Looks Like
By: John Rubino

Is This The Long-Awaited Gold Break-Out – Or Just Another Paper Market Head Fake?
By: John Rubino

2007 All Over Again, Part 7: Borrowers Start Scamming Desperate Lenders
By: John Rubino

We Give Up! Part 2: Consumers And Corporations Join The Debt Orgy
By: John Rubino

Gold And Silver Futures Swing From Bearish To Bullish In Just Two Weeks
By: John Rubino

Finally, Gold Speculators Start To Bail, Setting Up A Big Q1 2018
By: John Rubino

The Biggest Bubble Ever, In Three Charts
By: John Rubino

Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows
By: John Rubino

More Strange And Disturbing Action In The Paper Gold Market
By: John Rubino

Creeping Fascism, Part 5: “the world’s most sophisticated, high-tech systems to keep watch over citizens”
By: John Rubino

We Give Up! Government Spending And Deficits Soar Pretty Much Everywhere
By: John Rubino

“The money is just sitting there…doing nothing for society”
By: John Rubino

The Dumbest Dumb Money Finally Gets Suckered In
By: John Rubino

Why Capital Controls Usually Fail, China Versus Bitcoin Edition
By: John Rubino

Gold Versus Bitcoin: The Pro-Gold Argument Takes Shape
By: John Rubino

Next-Generation Crazy: The Fed Plans For The Coming Recession
By: John Rubino

Last Time This Happened, Part 2: Consumers Are Both Confident And Broke
By: John Rubino

Looking For Inflation In All The Wrong Places
By: John Rubino

Broke And Desperate, Part 1: Chicago Pawns A Crown Jewel
By: John Rubino

We’ll Look Back At This And Cringe, Part 1: European Junk Bonds Yield Less Than US Treasuries
By: John Rubino

Gold Speculators Refuse To Give Up; Another Drop Likely
By: John Rubino

Fragmenting Countries, Part 1: Catalonia Is Just The Beginning
By: John Rubino

Hyperinflation Chronicles, Part 1: Einstein’s Scribble, Newman’s Watch, And Dot-Blockchain
By: John Rubino

This Bubble Gets Its “Alternative Paradigm”
By: John Rubino

Strange Things Happening In The Paper Gold Market
By: John Rubino

Are Cryptocurrencies Inflationary?
By: John Rubino

Really Bad Ideas, Part 5: The Fed Should Have – And Defend – An Inflation Target
By: John Rubino

Can A Company Be Great And A Great Short?
By: John Rubino

The Real Peak Complacency
By: John Rubino

Rationality Versus The Market
By: John Rubino

Really Bad Ideas, Part 4: Federal Flood Insurance
By: John Rubino

Suddenly, “De-Dollarization” Is A Thing
By: John Rubino

Looks Like The COT Report Wins Again, As Gold And Silver Fall Sharply
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 25: Losing Faith In College
By: John Rubino

The Empire Strikes Back – At Bitcoin
By: John Rubino

Lightening-Fast COT Reversal: Now Fairly Bearish For Gold And Silver
By: John Rubino

High-Profile Sectors Start To Roll Over
By: John Rubino

COT Report Gets Even More Favorable For Gold And Silver
By: John Rubino

Speculators Sour On Gold And silver, Which Means The Bottom Is Near
By: John Rubino

Car Sales Have A Long Way To Fall
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 24: Illinois About To Default?
By: John Rubino

Time To Add Housing To The Bubble List?
By: John Rubino

Really Bad Ideas, Part 2: Giving Up Without Admitting It
By: John Rubino

Is This Bitcoin’s Fatal Flaw?
By: John Rubino

You’d Think We’d Be A Little More Worried…
By: John Rubino

Really Bad Ideas, Part 1: Modern Monetary Theory
By: John Rubino

Is Canada The Next Hot Money Victim?
By: John Rubino

The Least Explicable Bubble
By: John Rubino

Misunderstanding GDXJ: Why It’s Actually Great News For Junior Miners
By: John Rubino

The Housing Bubble Is Back
By: John Rubino

Don’t Let This Happen To You
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 17: Europe Gets Its Doomsday Scenario
By: John Rubino

China Starting To Resemble Bernie Madoff
By: John Rubino

After The Crash, Part 1: Solar Stocks
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 23: Honest Pension Returns Equal Mass-Bankruptcy
By: John Rubino

What’s Left To Drive The Recovery? Not Much
By: John Rubino

Soaring Global Debt Sets Stage For “Unprecedented Private Deleveraging”
By: John Rubino

Maybe The Recovery Wasn’t Real After All
By: John Rubino

Two Trends That Will Force The Fed To Start Buying Stocks
By: John Rubino

Don’t Hide Your Gold Coins Where Your Thermostat Can See
By: John Rubino

Welcome to the Third World, Part 21: State Schools Scale Waaayyy Back
By: John Rubino

2016 Debt Binge Produces (Surprise!) 2017 Inflation. Guess What That Means For 2018?
By: John Rubino

Fossil Fuels Are Toast – But Real Assets Are Still The Place To Be
By: John Rubino

The Second Dumbest Kind Of Money Is Pouring Into Stocks — “With A Vengeance”
By: John Rubino

How We Got Here In One Sentence
By: John Rubino

How Many Euro Crises Will This Make? It’s Getting Hard To Keep Track
By: John Rubino

Is This What They Mean By “Crack-Up Boom”?
By: John Rubino

This Is Why You Don’t Own A Lot Of Stocks
By: John Rubino

What Form Will The Great Confiscation Take — And How Can We Prepare?
By: John Rubino

Major Inflection Point Coming
By: John Rubino

Modern Delusions, Part 1: Japan Thinks It Can Balance Its Budget
By: John Rubino

2017’s Real Milestone (Or Why Interest Rates Can Never Go Back To Normal)
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 21: This Pension Thing Is About To Get Real
By: John Rubino

How Did We Get 2016 So Wrong?
By: John Rubino

Debt Surge Producing Fake Recovery
By: John Rubino

Gold: Getting There A Little At A Time
By: John Rubino

Three Mini-Bubbles Are Bursting
By: John Rubino

Warnings We’ll Wish We’d Heeded, Part One — Plunging Jobless Claims
By: John Rubino

2007 All Over Again, Part 6: Stock Valuations Enter “Crash” Territory
By: John Rubino

Euro Devaluation Accelerates – Millions Of Europeans Wishing They’d Bought Gold
By: John Rubino

The Variable-Rate World Stares Into The Abyss – Again
By: John Rubino

Top Ten Videos
By: John Rubino

These Were Supposed To Be Hillary’s Numbers!
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Currency War, Part 23: Europe Will Devalue Or Dissolve
By: John Rubino

Another Election Year, Another Bunch Of Fake Growth Numbers
By: John Rubino

Speculators Are Finally Bailing Out Of Gold – And That’s A Good Thing
By: John Rubino

Krugman Gets His Alien Invasion – And Gold Bugs Get Paradise
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 15: Glenn Greenwald Explains The Election
By: John Rubino

We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 4: Central Banks Become World’s Biggest Stock Speculators
By: John Rubino

This Is What Gold Does In A Political Crisis, “Trump Might Actually Win” Edition
By: John Rubino

Don’t Sweat The Election. The Next Crisis Is Already Baked Into The Cake
By: John Rubino

This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Brexit Edition
By: John Rubino

The Boredom Before The Storm
By: John Rubino

More Good News For Gold Bugs: The Bottom Is Getting Closer
By: John Rubino

The Floodgates Begin To Open
By: John Rubino

Great News For Gold Bugs: The COT Report Is Playing Out As Usual, Which Means Lower – Then Much Higher – Prices Coming
By: John Rubino

World Gone Mad, Part 2: “Perpetual Preferred”
By: John Rubino

Is Real Estate Finally Rolling Over?
By: John Rubino

World Gone Mad, Part 1: “Huge Demand” To Lend Italy Money For 50 Years
By: John Rubino

Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Rates In This World? Bank Bail-In Edition
By: John Rubino

It’s Not Just Deutsche Bank. The Whole Financial Sector Is Dying
By: John Rubino

What Blows Up First, Part 3: Really, Deutsche Bank?
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 20: Poor Kids Become Prostitutes To Buy Food
By: John Rubino

Here’s How Europe Implodes, Part 1: Italian Junk Bonds And The End Of Austerity
By: John Rubino

Developing Countries Emulate The US, Turn Citizens Into Debt Slaves
By: John Rubino

The Next Experiment, Part 1: Japan Prepares To Buy Pretty Much Everything
By: John Rubino

Welcome To The Third World, Part 18: Pensions Overwhelm Public Services
By: John Rubino

Corporations – And Corporate Execs — Fall Out Of Love With Their Shares
By: John Rubino

Why Interest Rates Can’t Go Much Lower, In Five Charts
By: John Rubino

US Treasury Yields Go Negative Everywhere But Here
By: John Rubino

Now The Markets Themselves Are Too Big To Fail
By: John Rubino

We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 4: Insurance Companies Go For “Growth”
By: John Rubino

Corrupt Or Just Stupid? Markets Hand Corporations An Unlimited Credit Card
By: John Rubino

Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 15: Violence Goes Random
By: John Rubino

Stay Home, Order Take-Out, And Fondle Your Gold
By: John Rubino

Great Numbers, Curious Timing
By: John Rubino

“Soon” And “Really, Really Crazy”: Starting Up The Helicopters
By: John Rubino

2007 All Over Again, Part 5: Banking Crisis Imminent
By: John Rubino

Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Interest Rates In This World? Europe In Chaos Edition
By: John Rubino

Something Huge Is Coming From Japan
By: John Rubino

Brexit’s Big Loser? Japan
By: John Rubino

Will The European Union Just Dissolve?
By: John Rubino

Brexit Rules The Week
By: John Rubino

Will Brexit Give The US Negative Interest Rates?
By: John Rubino

Big Names Bailing
By: John Rubino

Unintended Consequences, Part 3: “How Do I Get Away From Negative Yields?”
By: John Rubino

Japan Is First To Panic; Won’t Be The Last
By: John Rubino

Gold Mining Buy-Out Binge Coming, And That’s A Mixed Blessing
By: John Rubino

Unintended Consequences, Part 1: Easy Money = Overcapacity = Deflation
By: John Rubino

How Stupid Do You Have To Be, Part 2: 100-Year Bonds
By: John Rubino

Wall Street Is Falling Off A Cliff, And The Bottom Is A Long Way Down
By: John Rubino

A Currency War Battle That Europe and Japan Can’t Afford To Lose
By: John Rubino

Consensus Forming: China Heading Back Into Financial Crisis
By: John Rubino

Negative Interest Rates Claim More Victims. Today It’s Deutsche Bank, Tomorrow German Insurers?
By: John Rubino

This Is How They Fool Us, China Edition
By: John Rubino

Is Deutsche Bank’s Gold Manipulation The Main Scam Or Just A Side-Show?
By: John Rubino

The Pitfalls Of Buying Gold And Silver Online, And How To Avoid Them
By: John Rubino