John Rubino - Things Are Getting Interesting

We're truly in Bizarro Land. Negative interest rates are the death knell of a financial system. In Sweden they're giving negative rate mortgages. The system cannot function for long in this current state. A breakdown is inevitable. It's just a matter of when. It's a page right out of 1984. Ignorance is strength. You can't reward savers with negative rates and not expect extremely anomalous behavior to emerge. When debtors get paid to borrow and savers get charged to save, the system is stood up on its head. The end is nigh.

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.