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7th February 2018 Bill Bonner

What’s REALLY Behind Monday’s Stock Plunge

[Editor’s note: because Bill is usually writing from the US, we don’t publish his copy until the day after he’s written it. So if you’re a bit confused as to why he’s predicting events that have already happened, that’s why.]…

14th December 2017 Bill Bonner

Fed Begins its March to Doom

22nd November 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Deferring Yellen’s judgement for praise

Do you remember the retirement of Alan Greenspan? Probably not, everyone seems to want to forget about what happened after 2006. The monetary maestro had presided over an extraordinary period of stability, calm and growth. They called it the Great…

10th October 2017 Bill Bonner

Will the Fed Stab Investors in the Back?

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – First, a news update. The Washington Post: The Republican Party has largely abandoned its platform of fiscal restraint, pivoting sharply in a way that could add trillions of dollars in federal debt over the next decade….

11th September 2017 Nickolai Hubble

The dragon lays a trap

A portrait of Mao Ze Dong from a note watches over stocks

The hurricanes came just in time for the Federal Reserve. Its policy committee faced the challenge of tightening monetary policy in coming months as promised. But chair Janet Yellen may have escaped by the skin of her teeth once more….

17th August 2017 Nickolai Hubble

What would you do?

Central banker's shoes tied on top of a pile of notes

Next week the world’s central bankers head to Jackson Hole for the annual Economic Policy Symposium. And the financial world is fretting over their words more than ever in anticipation of what might be said at the event. Mario Draghi’s…

3rd August 2017 Bill Bonner

An important warning about this bull market

Bull and bear shapes look like made of origami paper with symbols of stock market trends on them.

They went up, of course. Just like they always do. Some people have expressed wonder… and doubt… that the equity value of America’s businesses can increase so much even while national leadership is in so much disarray. Republicans can’t work…

17th July 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Which mandate is most mandated?

The Federal Reserve building in Washington DC superimposed on a twenty dollar bill and a grunge texture background

Most things you can learn from economics are wrong. Figuring out why they’re wrong has plenty of value though. It allows you to predict things that others don’t see. The neutrality of money is a great example. Most people who’ve…

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