John Rubino

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Big Companies, Huge Problems

28/01/2016(0)
    Apple is far from the only iconic US company that’s signaling a global slowdown. Three more are in the news today: “Caterpillar warns equipment sales still falling ... Read More
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Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters

04/01/2016(2)
Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters How do you make money in a world where history is meaningless? The ... Read More
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This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition

28/12/2015(0)
Along with the currencies of most other commodity-exporting countries, the Canadian dollar has been in near-freefall lately. Gold, meanwhile, has been sucked down with the rest of the commodities ... Read More
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The Recession And Bear Market Of 2016, In Two Charts

23/12/2015(0)
Good friend Michael Pollaro just sent a couple of charts that show the US economy heading for a brick wall. The first illustrates what happens when business sales (the ... Read More
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Junk Bond Crisis Starts To Metastasize

15/12/2015(0)
    With junk bonds finally reverting to their intrinsic value, the question on everyone’s mind is “what blows up next?” Here’s the first in what might be a ... Read More
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Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People

10/12/2015(0)
Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the divergence between Fed tightening ... Read More
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Money Is Becoming Unmanageable: Hedge Funds Post Losses, Face Outflows

03/12/2015(0)
      Some of the money managers who made names (and billions of dollars) for themselves in the past decade are suddenly failing: ” Hedge Funds Brace for ... Read More
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Chinese Debt Snowball Gaining Momentum

30/11/2015(0)
Financial crises can happen quickly, like the bursting of the tech stock bubble in early 2000, or slowly, like the late-1980s junk bond bust. The shape of the crash ... Read More
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Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?

26/11/2015(0)
  A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. ... Read More
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Is Anybody Okay Out There?

20/11/2015(0)
In normal times, the world’s major economies are a mixed bag. Some are up, some are down, some are placid, some are in crisis. It’s only at the boom/bust ... Read More
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