Our doctor, Mark, draws an interesting parallel. ‘You know, it’s the same thing with your health and longevity. The secret is to avoid the Big Loss.’ There are many things we don’t know…and many ways to die. And finally, in life, we all will take the Big Loss, no matter what we do. We were […]
By Bill Bonner,
War. Inflation. Bubbles and boondoggles. All require a little madness…suspending good taste and sound judgement…delaying the reckoning…going along with the flow — to Hell. The Mirror: ‘Iran’s missile attack on Israel is ‘first step toward WW3’ as just one factor is preventing all-out war ‘Iran launched over 180 ballistic missiles toward targets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem […]
By Bill Bonner,
Our story so far… George W. Bush set up the East-West Forever War by announcing that we were at war with ‘terrorism’, which will never go away entirely…and then telling the world that ‘you are either with us or against us’. Back in 2003, most nations were neither. The attack on Iraq was a warning […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?’ Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State The Daily Mail quotes UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres: ‘“Hell is breaking loose” as Israel rejects calls for ceasefire.’ Today we look at where Hell goes from here. We have no original […]
By Bill Bonner,
In as much as we may be on the edge of WWForever… and maybe at the beginning of a mass extinction event… perhaps it is worth spending a few minutes to consider what is going on. Wednesday brought this news from Dave DeCamp: ‘Israeli Military Chief ‘Preparing’ for Ground Offensive in Lebanon ‘Lt. Gen. Herzi […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘All the evidence supports the disappointing fact that regular investors as a whole underperform the market. As long as they try to ‘beat the market’ they actually underperform.’ Todd R. Tresidder, founder of FinancialMentor.com, in 2010 The way to get where you are going is not to go somewhere else. And the way to make the big gains […]
By Bill Bonner,
Last week, we introduced an unsettling idea: What if we’re wrong? Of course, having been married for the last half century or so… the question is not unfamiliar. We get names wrong. Dates too. Places… historical events… verb conjugations… facts, figures… this, that and the other — all are likely to be mistaken. Fortunately, we […]
By Bill Bonner,
We were stunned. There, in the opinion pages of the Washington Post, last week was something we have not seen in any mainstream newspaper or journal. This was so unusual… not an appeal for more wasteful spending or more futile bloodshed in the Levant or on the Steppes. Not a call for more spending for […]
By Bill Bonner,
The Fed acted. Investors re-acted. MarketWatch: ‘U.S. stocks roared higher Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average topping the 42,000 milestone for the first time and the S&P 500 also surging to a record close, a day after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell repeatedly used variations on the word “recalibrate” to describe the decision to deliver an extra-large, […]
By Bill Bonner,
‘I’d like to do the job sooner’, said a roofer in France. ‘But I can’t find workers. They all want to go to college and get jobs in the city. Air conditioned offices. Coffee machines. That kind of thing.’ Today we wonder what kind of thing that is. Business Insider: ‘A 2021 survey by Pew […]
By Bill Bonner,
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