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24th February 2017 Nick O'Connor

Two ways to prosper in 2017

OK. I admit it. If there was one simple, powerful way of succeeding in the markets… that all investors could simply set up and start using right away… I would have told you by now. But there isn’t. There is…

20th February 2017 Bill Bonner

What Really Separates the Rich From the Poor

LOVINGSTON, VIRGINIA – On Wednesday, the Dow, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq closed at record highs for the fifth straight day. The last time this happened was in 1992. Meanwhile, President Trump held his first presidential press conference. It…

16th February 2017 Bill Bonner

Should Trump “Unleash” Wall Street?

LOVINGSTON, VIRGINIA – Stocks show little movement. Investors are waiting for something to happen. And wondering… Corporate earnings have been going down for nearly three years. They are now about 10% below the level set in the late summer of…

10th February 2017 Bill Bonner

A Government for Old People

MIAMI – “The CQ certainly went down when you came into the hotel,” said one of our two sons here with us. “What’s the CQ?” “The cool quotient.” The Edition hotel in Miami’s South Beach has so much cool, your…

7th February 2017 Nick O'Connor

You are not free

Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us. No one whistles. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom…

27th January 2017 Bill Bonner

Stocks Atop a Greased Pole

MIAMI – How about that? The Dow punched through the 20,000 mark Wednesday. It could go much higher. Or lower. We’re not sure which – maybe both. But our guess is that it won’t stay where it is for long….

13th January 2017 Bill Bonner

The End of Obamacare? Not So Fast…

BALTIMORE – “The Donald” – still in Manhattan, and still largely ignorant of the nasty critters and perverse ecosystem on the banks of the Potomac – is catching whiffs of swamp gas. Talking to the New York Post, the president-elect said…

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…

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