Bill Bonner

BERLIN – We’ve looked at the past: $20 trillion added to the world’s monetary base over the last 20 years… $250 trillion of debt worldwide… U.S. stocks pushed to record highs… We’ve looked at the present: sales, pre-tax earnings, and…

BERLIN – Yesterday, we saw the past, the present, and the future… all stumbling over one another. On the march were the mistakes of the past 20 years – funded by trillions in fake money flushed into the markets by…

Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. – Nikita Khrushchev BERLIN – “You’d think they would have learned something. They lived with communism for 45 years. They should know…

BERLIN – Berlin is not a particularly attractive city – at least, not from our hotel room near the famous avenue, Unter den Linden. The buildings are all monumental, graceless, and blockish. For years, the city has attracted young people…

BERLIN – Almost everyone is disgusted by the manner in which now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. But here at the Diary, we always look on the bright side, even when it’s pitch black. Disgrace and Revulsion The feelings of disgrace…

I was asked at last week’s news conference whether these forecasts are too good to be true – a reasonable question. – Fed Chairman Jerome Powell BUENOS AIRES – Last Thursday, while we were out of touch… the markets grew…

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – We pick up where we left off yesterday. The big winner from the new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal, now called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), is the Swamp. Here’s Jeffrey J. Schott of the Peterson…

You shouldn’t pick up hitchhikers. I picked up one the other day, and he immediately said, “How do you know I’m not a serial killer?” I replied, “Do you know the odds of having two serial killers in the same…

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – Kavanaugh… Kavanaugh… Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh in the morning. Kavanaugh in the evening. Kavanaugh at supper time. It’s Kavanaugh 24/7. And so the mud wrestling – wretched, tawdry, and disgraceful – continues. But today, we turn away… back to…

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA – What was wrong with the thousands of generations that came before us? All their antique courtship rituals… sitting on the front porch, chaperones, and pitching woo. They must have been really stupid! Because all it took was…