Bill Bonner


Is Capitalism Doomed?

The Dow went up 87 points yesterday. Gold went nowhere. Our guess: Neither stocks nor gold knows where to go from here. The economy is still weak, with mortgage lending at its lowest point in 14 years. But the Fed is still holding interest rates down... and feeding plenty of QE money into the market. The Fed is expected...

A Monstrous Aberration

US stocks sold off on Friday. Gold rose. Tensions in Ukraine were said to be driving both markets. Maybe...

A New Manifesto for Building Wealth

As T. Boone Pickens used to say, "money is just a way of keeping score in life." Of course,...

Eating Brains in Argentina

"It's called guadeado. You take the whole head... without the skin, of course. You dig a hole in the...

Democracy Is a Joke

The world turns. The news flows. The interpretations, narratives and explanations follow. Up here in the Argentine Andes, we...

Take This Away and the US Stock Market Crashes

Yesterday, we were explaining how the US empire and the Fed-induced credit bubble depend on each other. To make...

Pssst… The Military-Industrial Complex Is Alive and Well

We made an observation last week: The US empire and its credit bubble will probably come to an end...