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20th March 2017 Bill Bonner

Finally Some Good News From the Trump Team

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – Yesterday, coming back from Granada with a driver, we learned a little about how the Nicaraguan economy works. We were passing shacks of all varieties and various levels of ingenuity. Some had bare concrete walls and…

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…

13th March 2017 Bill Bonner

Searching for Truth in the Trump Era

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – In the fifth century, Christian scholars counted 88 different heresies. Arianism. Eutychianism. Nestorianism. If there was a way to “offend” God, they had a name for it. One group of “heretics” argued that there was no…

10th March 2017 Bill Bonner

Welcome to Bubble Land

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – The markets are quiet. Stocks are still near record highs. Gold is nearing its 52-week low. “What do you think?” asked an interviewer who reached us by phone yesterday. “Bank of America predicts a big bear…

9th March 2017 Nickolai Hubble

Is your TV listening to you?

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has released the budget. If you or I balanced our books as badly as he does, we’d be in deep trouble. But governments make the rules. And everybody just focuses on whether things are…

9th March 2017 Bill Bonner

Trump Is Right About “Alternative Facts”

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – “Don’t worry. The brush fires look worse than they are.” That was the word this morning when we asked about flame control. The hills to the east of us are still on fire. Last night, we…

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…

1st March 2017 Bill Bonner

The Swamp Will Not Be Drained

DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA – This is Crash Awareness Week at the Diary. If Team Trump stumbles, investors will be disappointed. Gradually… then all of a sudden… they will realize that the premise behind this rally was false. Already, we’re seeing signs of trouble…

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