Bill Bonner


The Serf Society

Stocks, bonds, gold -- all bounced around last week. And as we mentioned on Friday, Americans continue to turn into "neo-serfs." "Wall Street is running a new profit game," writes Shabnam Bashiri at Salon.com, "by buying foreclosed houses and renting them back to their former owners." Yes... nice business. Even better than it looks. It's why the rich get...

Gold: The Ultimate Safe Haven

We are delighted to see gold getting smacked down. From the International Business Times: Gold prices posted their biggest...

The Japanese Will Learn to Tango

Two days ago, we promised a look, not at where we are going, but at where we are supposed...

How to Disappear Without a Trace

Travel is tiring. Often, it's our laptop computer that shows the signs of fatigue first. Yesterday, it got fed...

Uber Alles

Yesterday, a strike by Paris taxi drivers forced us to improvise. No taxi would take us... and the trains...

The Real Reason There Will Be No “Recovery” in America

Nothing much happened on Wall Street yesterday. The Dow rose 56 points. Gold was flat. From the Daily Mail...

Which Market Is Telling the Truth?

London was lively. Restaurants, bars, museums... everything was hopping. In Hyde Park, a pair of sweaty Frenchmen completed a...