Meanwhile, we learn – in the same paper – that “Rising obesity will cost the USA $344 billion.”
November 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Bonner Diaries
The Daily Reckoning started out in 1999 as a personal letter from Bill Bonner to his readers. Today, even though we now have almost a million readers worldwide, it’s kept that personal touch. In this column Bill shares the trials and tribulations of living as an expat and global traveller in London, Paris, Buenos Aires and well, pretty much everywhere. Still haven’t subscribed to the Daily Reckoning? What are you waiting for… sign up here, it’s free!
A chronological listing of articles is below.
Should Foreigners Invest in Argentina?
“Much of the world is going through a downswing of the credit cycle. Argentina doesn’t have and didn’t have much credit. So it will be spared the big problems. But it sells farm produce to the rest of the world.
November 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Walking the Streets of Palermo Soho With a Baby in a Stroller
We were in Palermo Soho, a thriving and trendy neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The buildings are only two or three stories high. Streets are made of cobblestones, with sycamore trees on each side.
November 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Major Premise That Government Economists Can Improve Workings of a Free Economy
That leads people to believe that the feds have pulled off a save…they’ve now got the economy well along on the road to recovery…the recovery is getting stronger as time goes by…
November 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
Crude Oil Becoming Much Harder to Find
And, yeah, I guess we need SOME crude oil, cause our Priuses cannot ALWAYS run on electricity. So I guess its fine to use crude oil if we have to, as long as we can obtain the oil in an ecologically friendly way…
November 5th, 2009 | Eric J. Fry | 9 comments | Continued
Everything Was Looking Up With the Baby Boomers
Ok, Bill, let’s review those wonderful days from whence we sprang, so fraught with the advantages of having nothing. So potent with opportunity. It was the middle of the ’70s…
October 28th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 26 comments | Continued
Children Growing Up in a Different World
Not so with our children. They inherit a different world. America was the world’s leading nation in the ’50s and ’60s. And it was growing in power and wealth – rapidly. We grew up with it.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | Continued
Ireland Going Through Same De-leveraging Process as the US
“House prices here in Ireland are still too high,” judged our man on the scene. Chris is our main man at the family office…
October 23rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Mom Remembers the Real Depression
“But you’re being very silly…as usual. I remember the real depression. I was born in 1921. So, I was 8 years old during the crash of ‘29. Then, I was a teenager throughout the depression.
October 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
A Nice House With No Mortgage
This weekend we went to look at a friend’s house out in the country. He had built it himself …with help from his sons. It was a beautiful stone cottage, perfectly proportioned with French-style windows…
October 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued