Topic: Jeff Rubin
Quotes
Detroit's biggest problem isn't that it's producing the wrong type of vehicles but rather, that it's producing too many vehicles -- far too many
Report: Auto industry's heyday is gone Mar 02, 2009
Those projections ignore two fundamental forces that have, in recent years, brought global production to a virtual standstill
Report suggests higher gas prices Jan 10, 2008
Canadians are getting richer compared to their American neighbors, after having fallen so far behind during the IT-driven economy of the 1990s
Report: U.S., Canadian economies diverging Oct 15, 2007
Domestic demand growth of as much as 5 percent per year in key oil producing countries is already beginning to cannibalize exports and will increasingly do so in the future as production plateaus or declines in many of these countries
Study: Consumption up among oil producers Sep 11, 2007
With the Middle East and even Russia increasingly off-limits, we estimate that the oil sands and Canada's other deposits represent 56 percent of the world's investable reserves
Report: Canadian oil sands key after '09 Dec 08, 2006
Jeff Rubin (born August 24,1954) is a Canadian economist and author. He is a former chief economist at CIBC World Markets. He graduated from McGill University with a Masters in Economics after completing his Economics B.A. at University of Toronto. He began his career as an economist at the Ontario Government Treasury Department where he was responsible for projecting future interest rates. He moved on to the brokerage firm Wood, Gundy which was taken over by CIBC and became first CIBC Wood Gundy and then CIBC World Markets. He has accurately predicted fluctuations in interest rates and the value of the Canadian dollar. In the early 1990s he came to prominence projecting a major decline in the Ontario real estate market. He was one of the first economists to accurately predict soaring oil prices back in 2000 and is now a popular commentator on oil depletion and its economic repercussions. He lives in Toronto and recently began to post on Twitter as @jeffrubin. He is an avid fisherman known for exotic trips to Northern Canada (B.C. and Yukon)who frequently uses fishing analogies and references to his own fishing experiences, in his writings.
Rubin began at CIBC World Markets in 1988, and served as chief ecomonist from 1992 to 2009, when he resigned.
He authored the best selling 2009 book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization.
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