We wonder how many federal employees complied with the DOGE demand? Midnight last night was the deadline. CBS News: ‘DOGE’s Elon Musk says federal employees must document their work or resign; some agencies push back ‘Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘You are a traitor and a fool’, wrote a Dear Reader. The ‘traitor’ charge has no sting. But as for the ‘fool’? He may be on to something. Is it traitorous to notice that the US is being pulled down by its own Deep State scalawags, its jacked-up world improvers and its over-stretched empire? We […]
By Bill Bonner,
For years, philosophers have wondered: ‘which came first, the chicken or the egg?’, now we have our answer: Dead birds don’t lay eggs. When bird flu decimates the chicken population, the eggs disappear. Having solved the chicken/egg conundrum, we move on to another breakthrough. But first…we have to keep up with the dot-flow…making sense of […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘I will very quickly deflate. We are going to take inflation, and we are going to deflate it. We are going to deflate inflation. We are going to defeat inflation. We’re going to knock the hell out of inflation.’ Donald Trump, on the campaign trail ‘Inflation is back…I had nothing to do with it.’ Donald […]
By Bill Bonner,
The question was framed, according to some historians, by Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference. Winston Churchill had suggested that the Pope might be brought in to provide moral backing to the Allies’ campaigns against Hitler. Stalin must have wondered how morality would hold up against Panzer tanks. ‘How many divisions does the Pope have?’ […]
By Bill Bonner,
There’s Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). And there’s also Trump-o-philia (ToP). One man hates him. Another loves him. Which one sees most clearly? ‘It feels like Christmas, every day. He’s really getting the economy going. And getting rid of all those freeloaders.’ A local real estate agent — a strong Trump supporter — came to visit. […]
By Bill Bonner,
As we all know, the US is headed for a fiscal crisis. Like having a ‘heart attack,’ says Ray Dalio. The only way to prevent it is to make dramatic policy changes now — not just to ‘improper payments’ to federal bureaucrats, but also serious cuts to the firepower industry. Possible? Here’s Barrons: ‘Trump Sends […]
By Bill Bonner,
We’ve left a few important dots, like mixed cement waiting in wheelbarrows… we need to connect them before they harden up. How come we say that stocks do not go up over the long run, when they are up 366 times since 1925? Why is the price of a Ford pickup truck is still a […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’ Genesis, 3:19 The doctrine in philosophy is known as ‘eternal return.’ Everything goes back whence it comes. For us, it is our […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.’ Woody Allen, in Bananas NPR (last November): ‘A duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at an art auction ‘A piece of conceptual art consisting of […]
By Bill Bonner,
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