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13th February 2017 Bill Bonner

How I’m Prepping for the Next Recession

Editor’s Note: Bill wrote the following essay in the middle of last year. But given our new president’s spending plans, it is perhaps even more timely now. GUALFIN, Argentina – If the recession doesn’t appear this year, it won’t be the…

12th January 2017 Bill Bonner

The One Thing Team Trump Will Fight Hardest to Prevent

BALTIMORE – Bloomberg reports that a panel of Nobel Prize-winning economists has given Donald Trump’s economic policies the thumbs down. Professor and former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz summed up the views of the panel, which “included his fellow…

9th January 2017 Bill Bonner

Try to Imagine Your Own Funeral…

“210 people were shot in America on the first day of 2017,” reads a headline on news website Vox. Baltimore did its part… Shortly after midnight in Ellicott City [a Baltimore suburb], Maryland, a 15-year-old boy broke into the house…

4th January 2017 Bill Bonner

Start the New Year with a Bang

BALTIMORE – In southern Italy, on New Year’s Eve, people used to throw things they no longer needed out of the window. This allowed them to start afresh, without the impedimenti of the past getting in the way. In Germany and Austria,…

3rd January 2017 Bill Bonner

An Easy Way to Avoid Pig-Headed Mistakes

Editor’s Note: To kick off the New Year, we want to finish up our holiday wealth-building series from Bill. BALTIMORE – Large groups of people do extraordinarily pig-headed things from time to time. Republicans can drive a car more or…

19th December 2016 Bill Bonner

Debt Frankenstein Threatens Trump

BALTIMORE – Stocks hesitated on Wednesday after the Fed announced its puny rate increase. Then, yesterday, they continued their march to glory, coming to rest just 150 points shy of the Dow’s 20,000 mark. And the dollar hit a 14-year…

16th December 2016 Bill Bonner

The Fed’s “Debt Monster” Is Calling the Shots

BALTIMORE – The funny money gets funnier in the U.S., too… Yesterday, as expected, the Fed raised its key short-term lending rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%. Stocks fell. Bloomberg Markets: Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates for the first…

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