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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Masters of the Universe No More
American markets continue to do what they do best: separating fools from their money.
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Weapons of Financial Destruction
Once again, derivatives are have become a weapon of mass destruction on Wall Street.
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IOU's with Handcuffs
When central banks put in extra cash, it sounds vaguely inflationary. In fact, it is a sign of just the opposite.
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A Third Army on the Financial Front
Despite the Fed's intervention, in both London and New York the cost of money for most borrowers actually went up.
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Central Banking for Dummies
The supply theory of money is simple enough. The more dollars you have, the less each one will buy. So, the question for a dollar watcher is: how many dollars are there?
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Hell Week in the Markets
Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) are expected to write off about $1 billion. Deutschebank says the writedowns will be about $9 billion over the next 6 months. DB itself has more than $50 billion of leveraged loans to private equity on its books. Goldman has nearly $40.
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The Bad News Bear
The Chinese were going to put up some money to prop up Bear Stearns. There might be many explanations for why the Citic deal didn't go forward, but here we suggest one that is the most far-reaching: the foreigners are growing wary of the United States.
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Entering the Helicopter Phase
It took investors a while to connect the dots, but now they seem to have the picture: the Fed’s big bank bailout will not really wipe out losses, nor make Wall Street more profitable. What it will do is save the big banks from going broke, while destroying the dollar.
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A Monetary Morality Tale
It is tempting to look at this market and come to a simple conclusion: the economy is declining and the feds are trying to stop the decline with more cash and credit.
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Victims of Our Own Good Fortune
Bill Bonner's hypothesis is that the Fed's efforts to inflate will show up more in the gold market than in the stock market.
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