We participate in about 20 or so different publishing businesses all over the world. They were started or acquired over our 40-year career in the publishing industry. Our favourite is an ‘intellectual’ book publisher in Paris, Les Belles Lettres. It fell into our hands largely by accident. We had struck up a friendship with the […]
By Bill Bonner,
We were cheerfully explaining what would happen in the second Trump administration. But first… Here’s the latest from the Musk/Ramaswamy duo. Business Insider: ‘The Biden administration said Monday it would help finance two battery factories in Indiana being built by a joint venture involving Jeep owner Stellantis and Samsung. ‘The announcement provoked a furious reaction from one […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must.’ Thucydides Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again… in the same way, most likely, he made it great the last time he was president. Investors are excited. Here’s Markets Insider: ‘Despite mounting geopolitical and macroeconomic concerns globally, international investors seem to […]
By Bill Bonner,
People choose whom they work with. They choose whom they marry and live with. They choose their dentists, doctors and decorators. They choose their president and Congressional representatives. They choose their food, their clothes, their autos, their videos and house plants. But they don’t choose their families. And when the genetic cards are shuffled and […]
By Bill Bonner,
A torrent of opinion claims Donald Trump will be the death of our democracy. Salon: ‘Will Trump try to end democracy? Yes… ‘“Dictator’s Handbook” authors say a second Trump term will be dreadful — but he can’t push US into autocracy’ This from Atlantic: ‘Donald Trump has won — and American democracy is now in […]
By Bill Bonner,
Kamala Harris, admitting that she had lost the race, pledged to keep ‘fighting’. She must have used the word 15 times. In bygone years, she might have said she would ‘keep up the struggle’. Or she might have said she would keep ‘working’…or keep trying…or keep the light on for us. Now, everything’s a fight. She also referred to […]
By Bill Bonner,
On Friday, US debt hit a new record. Fox News: ‘US national debt hits a new record: $36 trillion’. There was also this little news item last week. Reuters: ‘Putin says Ukraine war is going global’. ‘President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine war was escalating towards a global conflict after the United States and Britain […]
By Bill Bonner,
Sometime in the post-apocalyptic future… Surviving historians will brush off the dust…tidy up the graves…and try to make sense of it. Gathered around an open fire in a discarded oil drum, they will warm their hands and ask: What? How? Huh? We’ve looked at the best case…and some ‘worse cases’. Now we focus on the […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘World War I… Wall Street called it the ‘war bride’ years, was the first time America got a taste for how profitable war could be. The worse it gets around the world, the more assets will seek safe harbor (US assets?) and the worse it gets the more likely politicians sign those long-term rearmament contracts […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘Don’t follow leaders ‘Watch the parking meters’ Bob Dylan Like icebergs in the North Atlantic, the risks posed by Trump’s policies do not threaten just a slowdown in the shipping channels… but a catastrophic sinking of the whole damned fleet. We looked at tariffs yesterday, and saw how they might cause a worldwide depression, […]
By Bill Bonner,
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