It's now populist versus collectivist. Watch out for John's upcoming article about the "great migration" as conservatives and other sensible people leave California and NY for Texas, Florida and the mountain states, and leave Facebook and Twitter for Gab and Parler, basically to get away from liberals. It's the modern version of "white flight" though we don't want to put it that way. Huge story for 2021. They're leader to a new internet infrastructure. An internet backbone that doesn't rely upon the kindness of Google and Amazon. One last thing that should probably be near the top. Interest rates are spiking. What is it happening and what does it mean for markets and the economy? They're going higher in anticipation of massive bailouts. Industrial products are going higher in expectation of higher inflation. Did you hear about the nursing home where no one had died until they got vaccines? The vaccine was our savior. What really happened?
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.