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This is Europe’s “Powerful” Plan?

by John Rubino on December 8, 2011

Europe’s leaders have convened another summit meeting that will, they promise, put all the break-up speculation to bed once and for all. But the ideas that were floated pre-meeting are, um, logically challenged. Consider this excerpt from a recent Wall Street Journal article: The Pitfalls of Merkozy’s Third Way …Perhaps the markets are simply relieved [...]

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Precious Metals: Just a Squiggle

by John Rubino on September 23, 2011

Now this is a correction. In the space of three days gold is off 10% and silver 25%. What’s happening? Two things: First, you don’t get this kind of run without this kind of correction. When something soars, the number of people with huge embedded profits eventually reaches a tipping point where, for a while, [...]

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A Sign of Things to Come?

by John Rubino on August 11, 2010

This isn’t how it normally goes. For the past couple of decades — that is, during the parabolic phase of the global credit bubble — the financial markets have responded to US Fed announcements of easier money like kids whose daddy has promised them a trip to Disneyland. The euphoria doesn’t always last, but the [...]

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Sebastian Mallaby: "Nobody Would Know Whom or What to Trust"

by John Rubino on August 2, 2010

Here’s another take on the inflation/deflation debate from Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow and Financial Times columnist Sebastian Mallaby: Forget Jesus and ask the hedge funds The US stimulus debate features two warring camps. The Obama administration insists that a failure to stimulate will open the door to a double-dip recession. Its foes retort [...]

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Why We’re Ungovernable

by John Rubino on July 14, 2010

For the first time in 250 years, politics has become irrelevant. Not uninteresting or unimportant; obviously the way a society organizes itself matters to its citizens and its place in the world. But today there are no policies left on the “possible” menu that will save us from what’s coming. So a rational person’s time [...]

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