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John Rubino

Euro Crisis, Part II

Remember the euro-zone crisis? Front page news for weeks, and then…nothing. Could they have found the secret formula for eliminating an overwhelming debt load without

This Year’s Big Short

For short sellers, the pickings aren’t quite as obvious as they were in 2006. But they’re still pretty good. Muni bonds, for instance, are a

Why We’re Ungovernable

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

That’s a Lot of Empty Space

The local video store is closing, and the other day I wandered in to pay our remaining late fees (eight bucks for a single video

State Budgets: Serious, Ridiculous, Ugly

This week the focus shifted from Europe, where (apart from the French World Cup team) things are quiet, to the US, where state budget deadlines

Deeply Disturbing, For Different Reasons

A couple of articles appeared today that couldn’t be more different in tone, content, or point of view, but dovetail in a really disturbing way.

Europe Takes the Other Road

On its long journey to the land of bankruptcy, the Western world recently arrived at the last and most important crossroad. One branch led to

Munis About to Blow Up

So I’m sitting here trying to turn a pile of (mostly terrifying) data on muni bonds into a post that explains why this is the

The Long Wave Versus the Printing Press

The fascinating thing about “long wave” analysis (broadly defined to include Kondratieff waves,  Elliott waves, and William Strauss and Neil Howe’s Fourth Turning) is that

Time to Get Short, Part 2

Signs of a top are accumulating. Here’s survey of the market’s happy mood from Wednesday’s Financial Times (love the first line): Irrational equanimity is back.

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