Bill Bonner

Call the SEC!

Jan 15, 2014
We put in a good citizen call to the SEC yesterday. "There's a massive scheme to manipulate stock prices," we told the friendly agent. "I have to tell you that your call is being monitored so that we can better serve the public," he replied. "Oh, don't worry about that. The NSA is tapping our call anyway." "Are you...

Beware This Dangerous Wealth Mirage

Jan 14, 2014

US stocks fell about 1% yesterday (give or take). Let's see, the total value of the stocks trading on...

Time for a Cease-Fire In the War on Poverty

Jan 13, 2014

The unemployment numbers came out on Friday. They were worse than expected. Only 74,000 jobs added – about one-third...

Sell the House, Sell the Car, Sell the Kids…

Jan 10, 2014

The US Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen for the top post at the Fed. Your editor has given up...

Today’s Reserve Currency = Tomorrow’s Wallpaper

Jan 9, 2014

Somehow, like it or not, the world turns. Today's hegemon becomes tomorrow's also-ran. Today's reserve currency becomes tomorrow's wallpaper....

A Monumental Change in the World’s Monetary System

Jan 8, 2014

The Dow rose 105 points yesterday. Gold fell $8 an ounce. Nothing proven one way or another. We don't...

An Important Update on Our New ‘Trade of the Decade’

Jan 7, 2014

How's our "Trade of the Decade" doing? Great! It outperformed almost everything in 2013. To refresh your memory... Our...