‘Would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?’ –Jesus, to Judas Iscariot When we left you last week, word had just come that China responded to Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariff salvo, with reciprocity of its own. Reuters: Beijing on Friday increased its tariffs on U.S. imports to 125%, hitting back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]
By Bill Bonner,
The era of rules-based order and globalized free trade is over. –Lawrence Wong, Singapore Prime Minister When the stock market was in free fall, a subscriber wrote to ask if we were satisfied. After all, here was the sell-off we were waiting for. Alas, no. We hold gold. And we can’t complain. Gold has been […]
By Bill Bonner,
Countries are kissing my a** to negotiate trade deals.’ Donald Trump How exhilarating it must be. To have the whole world bending over and puckering up. What a feeling of power! Like Gen. Irvin McDowell setting out to teach those Rebs a lesson at Bull Run…Bonaparte chasing the Russkies out of Moscow…or the Titanic under […]
By Bill Bonner,
On Monday, White House advisor Kevin Hassett stoked rumors that the president will ‘pause’ the tariffs to give nations a chance to come to terms with the Trump Team. Stocks shot up…appearing, for a while, to reverse the downward trend. And again, yesterday morning, it looked like ‘the bottom was in.’ But then, The Donald […]
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“In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.” —Thomas Sowell Pete Navarro is in the news. He is believed to be the ‘architect’ of Trump’s tariff policies. Fox: White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate […]
By Bill Bonner,
The weekend brought a steady flow of tariff news…marked by outrage, indignation… and humor. Politicians often do stupid things…but there is usually some ambiguity about it. On this hand…but on that hand…maybe it will work, maybe it won’t… Rarely do we get to see a policy that is such undiluted claptrap that it brings liberals […]
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Tariffs, tariffs everywhere… What a rollicking good time for the press. And for Trump critics. The wires: Stocks slide around the world as investors recoil from Trump’s tariffs We watched the tape yesterday. The Dow was down 1,000…then 1,200…then 1,500. Where would it come to rest, we wondered. It ended the day down 1,679. In […]
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“There you are!” writes Tom…sending a handy shipping map. Looking out the window it is not clear where we are. It is so foggy, we can barely see anything more than 100 yards away. The ship left Brooklyn on Saturday and made its way up to the northeast, following the coast of North America… up […]
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God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made; of the same essence as the Father. —Nicene Creed Life aboard the Queen Mary resembles nothing so much as living in a retirement community. Most of the travelers have gray hair. Many have walkers or wheelchairs. Who else has the leisure […]
By Bill Bonner,
Day two of our trip passed without incident. The ship is full, so the restaurants and bars also tend to be full. Meals are eaten communally. That is, we sit at big tables and are obliged to talk to other travelers. We are not normally very sociable. But we almost always like people when we […]
By Bill Bonner,
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