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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The Ultimate Sell Signal
Inevitably, politicians pander to the living in order to get votes, and inevitably the next generation gets the bills.
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Dark Side of the Boom
The dark side of the oil boom is that the oil exporters not only sell oil; they use it, too.
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There Will Be Blood
Ben Bernanke and the other central bankers challenged the gods, pretending that they could control the markets and the business cycle. Over and over again the Fed reached up its sleeve and slipped out an ace. Now, Mr. Market is watching carefully; if sees that old, tattered ace of spades, there’s gonna be bloodshed.
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Sell US, Buy Latin America?
How do you take advantage of the boom in Latin America without getting whacked by a downturn in commodities?
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Smothered in Paper
The dollar is America’s leading (and highest margin) export. This has forced foreign central banks to create more of their own currencies to buy up the dollars. And so, the whole world is being smothered in paper.
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Considering the Price of Tea in China
A few years ago, nobody cared about the cost of tea in China. But now, prices are rising all over the world, and people are nervous.
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A Financial War With No Winners
What we are watching in the financial markets is a war between inflation and deflation. One side gets beaten up. Then, the other side gets walloped. Even when one gets an advantage, it comes at a high price.
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The Devilish Mixture of Stagflation
Stagflation is a devilish mixture: one part slump, one part inflation, and one part who-knows-what. Of course, the feds are eager to put more inflation into the brew.
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The Greenback Gets Around
The monetary system of planet earth, circa 2007, is simple. Arab nations export oil. Europe exports luxuries. Asia exports autos and gadgets. America exports dollars. Yes, dear reader, the buck gets around. It has more stamps in its passport than we do.
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The Fed's Open Checkbook Policy
As near as we can remember, the lesson of the ‘70s was that monetary inflation doesn’t always work. At some point, adding more money and credit becomes counterproductive.
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