American Consequences

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Bill Bonner

June 2020

The Knee on All Our Necks

By Bill Bonner We read the news. We are appalled. Last week we saw that, soon, it may not be only Blacks who want to set fire to police stations. Since the bottom of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the 20% of the population at the bottom of the heap...

February 2020

In War, Revenge Equals Destruction

By Bill Bonner Iran seems to have taken the bait. It couldn’t resist having its revenge on the avenger. But what’s this… ? Is that giggling noise coming from the graveyard… ? Today we return to our study of the two disastrous, society...

May 2019

Shades of the Past & Future

A Two-Part Discussion By Bill Bonner Our generation is, of course, the most fabulous group of people who ever walked on two legs… with a more keenly honed sense of right and wrong than any other, before or after. We not only care about our...

April 2019

Cutting to the Bone

Taking a Knife to Our Capitalist System By Bill Bonner First, the March jobs report showed a big collapse in hiring. The official numbers showed 20,000 new jobs added in February, a far cry from the 170,000 that were expected. Then, the Atlanta Fed...

January 2019

What We Learned From 2018

New Year’s Day, we awoke to the sound of sirens. By Bill Bonner After a week at the family farm, we had come back to the city for New Year’s Eve. But hardly had the new year begun when the echoes of the old year filled the streets and alleyways...