John Rubino, Author at Smarter Analyst

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About the Author John Rubino

John Rubino manages the financial website DollarCollapse.com. He is the co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Money Bubble (DollarCollapse Press, 2014) and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (Doubleday, 2007), and author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom (Wiley, 2008), How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust (Rodale, 2003) and Main Street, Not Wall Street (Morrow, 1998). After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a money market trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He currently writes for CFA Magazine.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): Online Retailing Is Crushing Bricks-And-Mortar

Towards the end of the 1990s tech stock bubble, “new media” – i.e.

John Rubino — June 19, 2017, 4:19 PM EDT

What Will Brexit Bring to the U.S.?

By John Rubino One of the oddest things in this increasingly odd world is the spread of negative interest rates everywhere but here. …

John Rubino — June 16, 2016, 4:13 PM EDT

Precious Metals: A Note of Caution

Suddenly, gold and silver are good again. In two short months, they’ve morphed from targets of derision to shiny new toys on the …

John Rubino — March 7, 2016, 3:33 PM EDT

The Fed Has Locked Itself Into Tightening

US stocks soared while the Fed was meeting to raise interest rates this week — though it’s not clear why that should be …

John Rubino — December 18, 2015, 4:31 PM EDT

The ‘Real Stuff’ Economy Is Falling Apart

Each month one or two high-profile government reports show the US is growing, adding jobs and generally recovering from the Great Recession. But …

John Rubino — December 3, 2015, 4:32 PM EDT

Paris Attacks May Hand Presidency To Marine Le Pen’s Anti-Euro National Front And Lead To Massive Euro Devaluation

By John Rubino Earlier today, articles started appearing about the rise of France’s right wing, anti-immigration National Front party in recent polls. This …

John Rubino — November 13, 2015, 7:16 PM EDT

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Ominous Stock Market Signal

Companies like Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) have made their investors rich by squeezing costs and holding down prices.

John Rubino — October 16, 2015, 3:17 PM EDT