The system was so overleveraged and debt so out of control that it was just a matter of when, not if. Will the bank derivative blow up and will that pull down the European and global economy? The stuff that could happen is insanely scary. Turkey is fighting with Russia and demanding that the US enter on their side. Will the US honor its Nato committment.
Hong Kong is giving out helicopter money, Fed rate cuts and no end in site. Let's see what happens next!
John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's 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.