Bill Bonner
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Bill Bonner is the Founder and President of Agora Publishing, one of the world's most successful consumer newsletter publishing companies, and the author of The Daily Reckoning. Bill Bonner is also a frequent contributor to Strategic Investment. Bill Bonner is the author, with Addison Wiggin, of the New York Times business best-seller Financial Reckoning Day: Survivng The Soft Depression of The 21st Century.
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Not Just a Speculator's Plaything
The falling dollar is not just a speculator’s plaything. It is the dollar in which almost all Americans’ hopes and dreams are calibrated. Pensions, insurance plans, stock portfolios, bonds, everything we earn and everything we spend, is almost all in dollars.
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The Victims of Economic Advantages
People don’t learn anything from watching others who do things right; they learn from watching people who make mistakes.
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Giving Up Something for Nothing
The practice of American financial authorities has been to try to keep the pot boiling by stimulating consumer demand. Trouble was, the economy really hasn’t been doing very well. So in order for consumers to continue to spend, they had to borrow.
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The Question to the Golden Answer
The big question is probably this: can the Fed now save stocks, housing and the economy by destroying the dollar?
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A Builder's Version of Paradise Lost
Are houses a wasting asset, not an appreciating asset?
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The Forgotten Art of Making Ends Meet
Americans are going to rediscover the quaint, almost forgotten art of making ends meet. Until recently, ends remained total strangers to each other. They didn’t have to meet because there was so much credit available on such forgiving terms.
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Bubble du Jour
Everyone loves a new era! Only two years ago, many thought residential real estate had entered a new era, but the model was the same boom-bust model Florida had followed in the 1920's. One bubble bursts only to puff up another. Now, the bubble du jour is in China.
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Bobbing Corks in an Economic Ocean
In dollar terms, the Dow has never been higher. Stock market players feel pretty good. The major Wall Street firms are telling clients that the good times are still ahead. Even Alan Greenspan says the credit crunch is easing off.
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Like Fed Head Like Son
Fed Chief Ben Bernanke has left no doubts: the bank will take its lead from Alan Greenspan’s easy money era, not Paul Volcker’s tough love therapy.
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Recession Imminent?
Bill Bonner writes that it is hard to imagine how consumer spending can hold up.
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