What we saw was an over-stretched empire getting ready to snap. But we were also allowing ourselves to be lazy. Rather than deconstruct the capital structure of the world’s largest economy, we decided to sell the whole damned thing.
October 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Warren Buffett"
The Achilles’ Heel of the Entire World Financial System
The moral of this story is that you have to go all the way. If you want your baby to be invulnerable, put him all the way under the water…even the heels. Or, maybe there’s another point: that there’s always some place where you’re vulnerable.
August 24th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Buffett Not Worried About Depression But How Recovery is Financed
This is probably the view shared by most economists and most investors. It is not our view. From where we sit there is no recovery underway…and there never will be one. You can recover from a hangover. You can recover from a nasty divorce. You can even recover from an earthquake.
August 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Apparently More Debt is Now Acceptable in Australia
He added that, “There is enormous concern in China about the US currency and the fact that there could be huge losses ahead for China if the American dollar falls…HSBC research shows that China does not face that risk in Australia. Global investors who want to invest in China can do so via Australia with far less risk.
August 20th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued
Warren Buffett Says American Economy is a Shambles
Yesterday didn’t turn out so bad after all on the ASX. Stocks finished slightly up, as did the Aussie dollar and oil. Today might be a different story, though. For starters, billionaire investor/guru/jovial-grandfatherly-figure Warren Buffett has said the American economy is a “shambles.” Buffett told CNBC that the worst of the financial crisis peaked late last year (we’re not so sure). But the economic crisis? That’s still in full flight…
June 25th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Capitalism Always Takes an Economy Where it Ought to Be
Whoever was responsible for the mistakes, capitalism went about correcting them with its customary élan. It hit imprudent investors with trillions in losses. It knocked down mismanaged corporations. It whacked homeowners…
May 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Days of Privatizing Over as Government Takes Charge
In the newspapers there is much discussion of what General Motors should do. This discussion has gone on for many years. Until now, it was a conversation carried on by serious analysts and auto industry experts.
May 5th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
The Outrage Over AIG and Their Bailout Money
Under pressure, AIG revealed what it did with the bailout money. It came as no shock to us to discover Goldman Sachs at the top of the list of recipients. Goldman’s main man was in the room with the feds – the only representative of Wall Street – when the decision was made to rescue AIG. What’s more, the feds’ main man at the time – Hank Paulson – also used to be the top honcho at Goldman.
March 18th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Free Money
When the Spanish Galleons came back from the New World with cargoes of gold and silver coins, the Spaniards thought they’d hit the jackpot. All of a sudden, Iberia had plenty of money. Historians report that the Spanish neglected their fields and their manufactures; now they had easy money to spend. Prices rose quickly. Then, when the treasure ships stopped coming, the Spanish were broke. Spain – and Portugal too – went into a decline that lasted four centuries.
March 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Warren Buffett is Buying Four Percent of Goldman Sachs
Is Buffett’s buying a sign that the bottom is in for stocks? After all, didn’t John Templeton plunk down money for every share selling for under a buck on the Dow at the bottom of the bear market that began with the ‘29 crash? “Before you rush out to buy Goldman’s stock,” writes my friend Porter Stansberry, “you should consider a few points”. “First, you can’t buy the kind of stock Buffett got on any market, anywhere in the world…”
September 25th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued