“War Criminal says Sorry, Sobs,” was the headline in the Nation on February 9th, 2004. Robert McNamara had just done something extraordinary for Secretaries of War: with tear in his eyes, he apologized for his role in the Vietnam War.
July 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "economists"
RIP Robert S. McNamara and California’s Holes in its Budget
Robert McNamara must have been in a hurry too. He never had time to wonder why he was sending 500,000 American boys to fight a war when Lyndon Johnson was “publicly promising in campaign speeches not to ‘go North,’ not to send American boys to fight wars Asian boys ought to fight for themselves,”…
July 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Can Government Bureaucrats do a Better Job of Allocating Capital than Free Markets?
They’re allowing a handful of economists – who failed the critical test; not one of them noticed the market tsunami coming last autumn – to direct the flow of trillions worth of savings. They’ve already put at risk more than $12 trillion.
June 29th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
The Public Still Has Faith in Economists – But Why?
The whole world economy is underwater and the same economists who failed the critical test are manning the pumps…
June 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
How Simpleminded Economists Really Can Be
Which reminds us how simpleminded economists can be. Imagine a town where people borrowed and spent too much. Faced with unemployment and a slump…
June 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Members of Congress Have the Same Questions As the Rest of Us
We report to you today from the banks of the Potomac. Our old friend, Congressman Ron Paul organized an off-the-record discussion with several other members of Congress. The subject was the financial meltdown…and the bailout. We were there to talk, of course, but we were more interested in listening.
May 25th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Big-picture Case for Energy Stocks is Pretty Bullish
Kris Sayce has been banging on the LNG drum, meanwhile, over at the Australian Small Cap Investigator. If you’re wondering what the difference is between his energy stock coverage and ours at D&D, we’d say it’s risk. Kris has been researching and recommending LNG plays in Queensland’s budding coal-seam-gas industry.
May 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Gold Sales Cost Europe’s Central Banks Billions
And gold? Well you know all about that. Yesterday’s Financial Times had three stories in a row on gold. The first was, “Beijing Bets on Bullion” and showed that even though China’s gold reserves have doubled since 2003, the country still only has 1.6% of its total foreign reserves in gold. The world average is 10.5%.
May 8th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Watching the Bear Market Rally and Swine Flu
All over the world, people are breathing a sigh of relief. The end of the world did not come. Asian economies are still growing. Even with GDP falling at a 6% annual rate in the U.S.A., unemployment seems to be moderating…and house prices are falling not quite as fast as they were a few months ago.
May 4th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
CBO is Not a Doom-and-Gloom Forecasting Service
This should be rather surprising to anyone who actually took Obama at his word when he promised to restore fiscal discipline to Washington. In fact, the CBO projects that the outstanding federal debt held by the public will increase from 40.8% of GDP in 2008 to 82.4% in 2019.
April 24th, 2009 | Robert P. Murphy | 0 comments | Continued
U.S. Government Spending $13 trillion to ‘Fix’ Problems
As near as we can tell, the financial world conveniently remained on hold while we were gone. As of Sunday night, little had changed. Gold, stocks…economists…politicians – they’re all about where we left them.
April 22nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
A Depression With A Capital ‘D’
Thus saith Mr. Michael Geoghegan, head of HSBC, the world’s biggest bank. HSBC bought America’s “Household Finance” for $15 billion in 2003. Now, it wishes it hadn’t. The U.S. unit ‘destroyed’ $10 billion in capital, says the bank.
March 4th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
The Feds Are Trying to Avoid Deflation
What’s the worst possible way to avoid deflation? Print money. ‘Governments can always avoid deflation,’ says Ben Bernanke – but only if they’re reckless enough to risk runaway inflation…
December 10th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Housing Prices Are Still Going Down
The latest news from America tells us that housing prices are still going down in 4 out of 5 cities. Homebuilders’ wives are hiding the shotguns and pouring out the whiskey…
November 20th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | Continued
Keynesians Believe Governments Have to Manage Economy in Macro-Economic Way
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman is, of course, a Keynesian. All economists – or practically all – are now Keynesians. So are all government officials. “We’re all Keynesians now,” announced Richard Nixon in the ’70s…
October 21st, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
