Economic Growth is stalled…debts are mounting up. Already the weight of debt is pressing down growth rates…and it’s getting worse.
February 10th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | ContinuedArchive for Bill Bonner
Best-selling investment author Bill Bonner is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, one of the world's most successful consumer newsletter companies. Owner of both Fleet Street Publications and MoneyWeek magazine in the UK, he is also author of the free daily e-mail The Daily Reckoning.
The Military Powerless
The military is not protecting the US in Afghanistan; there’s nothing to protect it against. Nor did it ever intend to “win” a war in Afghanistan.
February 8th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
When Emerging Markets Shape the Developed World
Try to imagine a world in which today’s emerging markets have more economic power, and vastly more people, than today’s leaders.
February 8th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
How to Prolong an Inevitable Free-Market Correction
Markets – free markets – are meant to be unstable. They are meant to crack-up from time to time. And thank God they do. Otherwise, we’d be stuck forever with zombie industries and dead end investments.
February 7th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Confusion in Capitalism
The Financial Times has continued its series on ‘Capitalism in Crisis’ much longer than we expected. Longer than seems decent, actually. The crisis will be over before the series ends.
February 6th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Buying Gold in Uncertain Times
The movement in the price of gold seems to be heading up again — almost no matter what else is happening. So, let’s look at what might be going on…
February 6th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Below Average Thinking With Thomas Friedman
We got a chuckle out of Thomas Friedman. Maybe he would be good as a brick mason. Or maybe a baker. Shame he got caught up in journalism. He has no talent for it.
February 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Investment Alternatives in a No Growth Economy
The economy is not nearly as strong as most people think. There is no growth to speak of. And without growth, it doesn’t make sense to pay so much for stocks.
February 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Persistent Questions About the Future of the US Economy
The US economy entered a period of debt destruction – a Great Correction, we called it. The question then was how long the Great Correction would last…which depended on what it was correcting.
February 2nd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
5 Reasons Why the US Prefers War with the Middle East
The US has been at war in two out of three years since 1989. The interesting thing about it is that 1989 marked an historic juncture. It was the year that the US had no more worthy enemies.
January 31st, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Everything Isn’t Fine in the US Economy
The US economy has come back to output levels of ’07. But this feeble rebound not only holds the title of “weakest post-war recovery ever,” it also shows that something else is going on. Most economists have no idea what. So, they just think this “recovery” is unusually slow.
January 31st, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
“Improvements” to Capitalism
As Alan Greenspan points out: The ‘greed’ that preoccupies Occupy Wall Street demonstrators is not a feature of capitalism, It’s a feature of human nature. He might have pointed out that socialists are just as greedy as capitalists. They are just more corrupt.
January 30th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Fed’s Unattainable Government Goals
The Fed has goals for unemployment and inflation. Targets. And it moves its policies around in order to achieve its goals. Of course, it doesn’t necessarily hit its goals.
January 30th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The US Constitution Gone Wrong
“…They put all that work into the US Constitution…using every trick they could think of to limit the power of the executive branch. Because they knew that if you let the executive branch get away with it, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a tyrant.”
January 30th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
The State of the Union Address and Obama’s Fairness Doctrine
We had been invited to watch President Obama give the State of the Union address with a group of dinosaurs…a group approaching extinction with dignity and intelligence. You might call them ‘thinking conservatives,’ ‘paleo- conservatives’ or ‘constitutionalists.’
January 30th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
