August is approaching. The Bonner family has picked up the French habit of taking the month off - gathering at our house in remote Poitou…
July 30th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 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.
Themes from Day 1 at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium
Yesterday was the first day of speeches at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium. We heard from quite a few DR familiar faces…
July 24th, 2008 | Kate Incontrera | 0 comments | Continued
An Old Friend With a New Idea on Global Warming
Global warming is much more of a threat than I thought. Apparently, there is much less dispute in the scientific community on this subject than we thought.
July 18th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 25 comments | Continued
Beat Food Price By Planting Your Own Garden
Everything is from the garden or the farm,” she announced. “The salad, the green beans, the peas, the onions, the eggs…well, not the noodles. It’s so nice to have a garden to work with…
July 11th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Fannie and Freddie Are Surely Doomed
“The downturn in the housing market is beginning to bite corporate Australia,” reports Ben Butler in today’s Herald Sun. “Shares of big building supplies company CSR plunged almost 15 per cent yesterday after it warned the housing market was taking a hit from high interest rates and declining confidence.” And so it begins. Actually, it began years ago when people began to think that house prices always go up in double digits.
July 11th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
The Legendary Percy Sledge Brings Back Memories of a Time When Your Editor was Young
There was a lot of new music in the ’60s. Some of it was great. Most of it was awful. But Percy Sledge was always in a class of his own. He is one of the greatest performers ever…one of the greatest singers ever. He is one of those rare talents that seem almost divine…too good to be purely human – like Shakespeare or Chopin.
July 4th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Where Bill Bonner Invests His Money
Emerging markets, for example. I don’t know about next year. Or even 5 years out, but it seems a reasonable bet that 10 or 20 years from now…
July 2nd, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
A Flock of Sheep Without a Shepherd
“Why do you write about your family…and about fixing up houses and so forth,” asks a Dear Reader. “What’s that got to do with finance and economics?” We don’t know. But we have a feeling that it all fits together somehow. Why do we bother caring about money anyway?
June 20th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 10 comments | Continued
A New Hotline Service – Made Just for Central Bankers
As you may remember, dear reader, we put in a Country Hotline Service here at the Daily Reckoning headquarters. We offered to give advice to central bankers and heads of state – for free. Well, we’re still waiting for the phone to ring. But if the phone ever rings, we’re ready. We can imagine the call…
June 5th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Actor’s Life is Misery: Giving Up on London and Going to L.A.
An actor’s life is misery, as near as we can tell. The work is irregular at best. Rejection is a fact of life…along with poverty. Harrison Ford gave up. He was getting an odd part here and there…not enough to support himself. So, he switched to carpentry…
May 29th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued