Jeff Rubin

Ever provocative, when Jeff Rubin speaks, people listen. One of the world's leading energy experts and, as the chief economist at CIBC world markets for nearly 20 years, he was one of the first economists to accurately predict rising oil prices in 2000. Now he’s focused on the middle class, free trade and globalization.

Rubin provides insightful and compelling commentary on the impact of trade deals, a greater global equity for the rich, globalization and the digital revolution, and challenges to liberal democracy. He’s been asked by clients and the media to address OPEC’s challenges to grow production, challenges facing the North American oil industry, and the potential impact of the loss of millions of oil export barrels a day.

Now, clients are requesting his sage insights into tariffs and their global ramifications.

His latest book, released in 2024 is titled: A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever, on the interconnectedness of global events and how they will reshape economies, politics, and daily life for years to come. +

Jeff Rubin, considered one of the world’s leading energy experts also authored the bestselling book, The End of Growth…But is That All Bad? He argued that the end of cheap oil means dwindling oil supplies for the future, but that it could lead to emergence of local economies and actually stimulate North American economy as well as helping the world’s climate-change problem. Rubin also penned the international best-selling book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization, long listed for the Financial Times Book of the Year and winner of the Canadian Business Book of the Year award. In 2015 and 2020, he released The End of Growth…But is That All Bad? and The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization. --

Jeff Rubin's Speaking Presentations:

The New Normal: How Inflation, War, Sanctions & Tariffs Will Change Your World Forever

Currently economist Jeff Rubin's most requested topic and based on his most recent book, this presentation discusses many of the events in 2024 / 2025 that have created a perfect storm of war, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, domestic upheaval, energy scarcity, tariffs and a complete disruption to the global economy.

The New Normal gives us a glimpse of a very near future that will look quite different from the recent past. It reminds us that our mortgage rates and job security, our grocery bills and investments, as well as our methods of travel and tourism are all tied to events set in motion by governments, corporations, and black swans around the world.

Economic Outlook +

Jeff Rubin first caught the attention of financial markets in 1989 with his now-famous call for a 25 per cent decline in Toronto real estate prices. Since then Mr. Rubin's work has often been the subject of national headlines and has been instrumental in raising key issues to the national spotlight. His many calls on the economy and financial markets, particularly with regard to interest rates and the Canadian dollar, earned him no less than 10 number one rankings in either the Brendan Woods annual survey of institutional equity of fixed income investors. The largest fund managers in North America, Europe and the Far East value his expertise, which he now shares with audiences world-wide. --

Oil And The End Of Globalization +

Once the economy recovers, oil prices will skyrocket -and globalization, as we know it, may end. What will our world look like then, and how will we continue to prosper? Today, almost everything we use is made possible, in some way, by abundantly available oil. But oil reserves are disappearing, never to return. Consequently, international trade and long distance driving, among other things, will become luxuries. But from this new reality, Rubin offers a vital account of how we can all benefit if we act now. In this new world, industries, such as steel and agriculture, will be revitalized; carbon tariffs will increase productivity; mass transit will be rethought; and our communities and the human spirit will be strengthened. Looking to the end of oil, and globalization, Rubin is both passionate and practical in outlining opportunities - opportunities that are endless and endlessly hopeful. --

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