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29th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Who Will Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts?

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French finance minister (1665-1683) POITOU, FRANCE – On Wednesday, another losing…

28th September 2017 Bill Bonner

How to Drain Wealth and Liberty

POITOU, FRANCE – “How about your man, Trump?” was the conversation starter at last night’s cocktail party. We heard a version of that question at practically every social event this summer here in France. It is an invitation to make…

27th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Trump can’t stop America from going broke

POITOU, FRANCE – From comedy… to farce… to tragedy. We laugh. We guffaw. And then we wish we hadn’t bought a house in inner-city Baltimore. Already, in Charm City, police helicopters peer into our windows… sirens wail at 3 a.m.……

26th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Why Donald Trump Is President

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. – Genesis POITOU, FRANCE – Autumn has…

20th September 2017 Bill Bonner

The US economy is dead in the water

ÎLE D’YEU, FRANCE – We are spending a couple of days with friends out on a tiny and charming island in the Atlantic, Île d’Yeu. We took the ferry from the Fromentine harbor, near the city of Nantes, on Sunday….

18th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Doom Index Issues “Extreme Warning”

Benjamin Franklin face on top of the american flag

PARIS – First, the news. Cryptocurrencies took a beating after Jamie Dimon – the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, a bank that makes billions from today’s fake-money system – called bitcoin a “fraud.” Bitcoin – the leading cryptocurrency by market value…

13th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Republicans Have Lost the White House

NORMANDY, FRANCE – Until last week, Republicans controlled the House… the Senate… and the White House. But who controlled Republicans? As it turned out, many – including the Republican-in-Chief – were out of control. Then came the explosion. Dazed and…

12th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Conservatives’ Last Bullet

Illustration of an individual flying with a balloon while being anchored by debt

NORMANDY, FRANCE – We had gotten a bid of $4,000 to redo the old fireplace. The carved stones that held the wooden mantel beam had cracked and fallen down. Other stones along the side had broken off or worn down….

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