When we left off last week, we portrayed an economy that was starting to run out of steam. It appears that there's a waive of retirees just waiting to overrun Social Security and Medicare. John believes that the government will simply inflate its way out of the mess and hope for the best. But will it work? And let's not forget the other silver tsunami, namely the shiny metal kind. It's been trading sideways for so long that there's little investor interest left. At some point that's going to change and change big. We know we've been saying it for years, but it's true.
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.