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12th July 2017 Bill Bonner

How Dumb Is the Fed?

POITOU, FRANCE – This morning, we are wondering: How dumb is the Fed? The question was prompted by this comment by former Fed insider Chris Whalen at The Institutional Risk Analyst blog: [O]ur message to the folks in Jackson Hole this week…

17th March 2017 Bill Bonner

Fed Hikes, Markets Yawn

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – According to yesterday’s mailbag feedback, your editor “certainly is the MOST unpatriotic intelligent person in the country. A closet LEFTY… “If [he] is SO smart and has all the answers, he should get off of his dead…

8th March 2017 Bill Bonner

The “Truth” About Trump

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. – Thomas Sowell Across the valley, it looked at first like a morning mist rising…

27th February 2017 Bill Bonner

Why the 21st Century Sucks

BALTIMORE – What an awful century! Worst we’ve ever seen. Household incomes are down. Employment is down, with 7 million people in the U.S. of working age without jobs. Productivity growth is down. GDP growth is down – to only…

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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How Dumb Is the Fed?

Fed Hikes, Markets Yawn

The “Truth” About Trump

Why the 21st Century Sucks

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