Swamp

11th April 2018 Bill Bonner

Why Stocks Will Be Body-Slammed

MIAMI – During the legendary 1998 wrestling match known as “Hell in a Cell,” two professional wrestlers faced off: “The Undertaker” and Mick Foley, aka “Mankind.” The idea was for the two to do their usual stunts – poking, whacking,…

10th April 2018 Bill Bonner

People Lose. Swamp Wins.

Good God almighty! Good God almighty! That killed him! As God is my witness, he is broken in half! – Announcer Jim Ross, on the occasion of a WWE match in Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena, June 28, 1998 SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL…

11th January 2018 Bill Bonner

History Proves It – You Can’t Drain the Swamp

BALTIMORE – We now have a great treasure trove of historical research proving that… …you can’t drain the Swamp! It’s almost impossible. The process is well documented. The rich get richer. And richer. And richer. The Swamp gets deeper. And…

30th August 2017 Bill Bonner

The One Promise Trump Can Keep

POITOU, FRANCE – “We live in a slow-growth world,” summarized a canny friend, “but with high-growth debt and high-growth asset prices.” Today, we turn to a report on Zero Hedge for further precision. But we’ll get to that in a minute. First,…

25th August 2017 Bill Bonner

Bannon Is Right: The Trump Presidency Is Over

POITOU, FRANCE – “‘The Donald’ has been White House-broken,” was what we were trying to say, translating the phrase into something that may make sense to a French listener. But it was too clever and complicated. “Well, let’s just say…

24th August 2017 Bill Bonner

Mr. Trump Has Been Broken

Map of Afghantistan and its surrounding neighbours

POITOU, FRANCE – Bannon is gone. And Priebus. And Spicer. And Scaramucci. And Donald J. Trump? Reckless, vain, juvenile, untutored, swinish – he was refreshingly blockheaded. And now, he may be gone, too… tamed by the “adults in the room.”…

28th March 2017 Bill Bonner

The Swamp Claims Its First Victim

Washington [is] a lot more broken than President Trump thought that it was. — White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – On Friday, the much-hyped Trump/GOP Obamacare reform sank into the swamp. If anything keeps us from…

27th March 2017 Bill Bonner

Swamp Monsters Devour White Men

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – On Thursday, the House put off its vote on the Republicans’ medical care bill. Stocks barely moved. Used car prices dropped last month by the biggest amount since 2008. Homeownership hit a half-century low. Sears may…

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