John Rubino

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How Long Until Inflation Breaks Germany?

14/12/2021(0)
During the 1923 Weimar Republic hyperinflation, newly-destitute Germans burned their life savings to keep warm or carted wheelbarrows of cash to stores to buy bread and milk. This wipe-out ... Read More
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The Strangest ‘Safe Haven’ Asset Ever?

29/09/2021(0)
Not so long ago, companies that make recreational vehicles were great indicators of market tops. Since RVs were frequently the final pointless toy that people bought (after motorcycles, boats, ... Read More
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Wall Street Journal proves it doesn’t understand gold

16/08/2021(0)
Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance. That includes the Wall Street Journal, which recently published an article (Gold as an Inflation Hedge: ... Read More
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The real point of cryptocurrencies is not their price

27/05/2021(0)
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an email conversation between columnist Andy Kessler and billionaire Mark Cuban in which Cuban explains the real point of cryptocurrencies. Hint: It has ... Read More
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Paradise Lost

08/04/2021(0)
So a single political party gains control of a lockdown-battered country desperate for any and all forms of government spending. Direct payments, loan forgiveness, infrastructure, all of these and ... Read More
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Is Bitcoin Strangling The Other Cryptos? Part 2: The Little Guys Are Soaring

22/01/2021(0)
The idea that “bitcoin is its own asset class” and should therefore be judged based on its own highly-constrained supply rests on the assumption that the rest of cryptospace ... Read More
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Here we go again

07/09/2020(0)
For the past few years, the US financial system and the Fed have been playing a game of chicken in which the Fed tries to tighten (or at least ... Read More
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Will a weak dollar bail out emerging markets? Nope

24/08/2020(0)
Back in the simpler days of 2019, there was this (now completely forgotten) impending crisis in which emerging market countries’ dollar-denominated debt was going to blow up their – ... Read More
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Jay Taylor: “Stick With Your Gold As Long As You Are Able”

17/08/2020(0)
From this week’s edition of J Taylor’s Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks newsletter: Gold’s slight correction of 3.99% this week doesn’t say much. But the $170/oz. decline in about ... Read More
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As gold soars, miners become hot growth stocks

07/08/2020(0)
  The idea that a rising gold price is good for gold miners is intuitively easy to grasp. But to understand just how good, you have to see the ... Read More
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