Paper Privilege
The US reneged on its promise to exchange dollars for gold in August of 1971. Dollars were still the world’s reserve currency, but nobody had any guarantee that they would remain limited and valuable.

The US reneged on its promise to exchange dollars for gold in August of 1971. Dollars were still the world’s reserve currency, but nobody had any guarantee that they would remain limited and valuable.
By Bill Bonner,

Real money shouldn’t have any purpose or value other than as money; it is meant to keep track of the values for other things, not to have a value of its own.
By Bill Bonner,

If you wanted to make money safely, you’d own profit making companies. Buy them when they were cheap and sell them when they were dear. But how would you know when they were cheap? Check gold.
By Bill Bonner,

‘Conspiracy theorists’ have a lot to work with. Millions of pages of intel from Epstein have already been released. Millions more to go.
By Bill Bonner,

The only thing that could Make America Great Again is the thing that made it great in the first place — less government, fewer deficits, fewer wars, and fewer meddlesome laws and regulations.
By Bill Bonner,

What a shame Epstein never got to spill the beans. Overcome with remorse, apparently, he decided to take his own life at the very time his guards took a smoke break.
By Bill Bonner,
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