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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "The Americas"
America Loves the Word “Recovery”
All this goes to show is how completely the people in charge of things in the United States have lost their minds. They seem to think this mass exercise in pretend will resurrect the great march to the Wal-Marts, to the new car showrooms, and the cul-de-sac model houses…
August 28th, 2009 | James Howard Kunstler | 2 comments | Continued
America’s Decline as a Great Empire
“I think future historians will put the beginning of America’s decline as a great empire in the year 2003, when the U.S. invaded Iraq,” said a French historian at dinner last night…
July 14th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
For Four Generations, America Has Been the World’s Alpha Nation
Primitive people imagine that they are to blame for whatever goes wrong – floods…earthquakes…volcanic eruptions; they appease the gods by tossing nubile virgins into volcanoes and building huge monuments of granite in their honor. Modern people imagine that they are to thank for whatever goes right. Did they not write the Treaty of Versailles…
May 19th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
What Should You Do With Your Money Now? Find Out What the World Wants Most of Right Now
Today we are feeling positive… helpful… almost earnest. We offer some buy-side advice.
February 22nd, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Those Who Toil in Finance are Unhappy
Subprime mortgages, liar’s loans, private equity finance, Chinese stocks, residential housing, SIVs, CDOs – they all needed more and more leverage, more and more finance, just to stay even.
February 18th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued