Bill Bonner Archives - American Consequences

July 2021

Bitcoin: All Foam, No Beer?

When money can't keep its story straight, it loses all its value. And in its brief time in existence, bitcoin has a financial narrative that's all over the place. In writerly terms, there's no there there.

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Jeff Bezos confronting his own mortality.

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Are Billionaires Policy Failures?

May 22, 2021 - According to the Financial Times, the world minted nearly 700 new billionaires last year. But why, from Bezos on down, do most citizens and politicians continue to loathe these plutocrats?

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Oh, Elon!

May 12, 2021 - Living meme Elon Musk delights in his capacity to move markets with a tweet. But he and his Dogecoin followers are turning Wall Street into more of a circus while readying America's economy for a funeral.

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The Turning Point in America’s History

January 8, 2021 By Bill Bonner Lock your doors. Send your wives and daughters to safety in Paraguayan convents. And sell! The Barbarians are at the gates… No, they’ve crashed through! The forces...

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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...

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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...

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September 2019

The Hollowing Out of American Liberty

How independent we really are, circa 2019… By Bill Bonner When Europeans discovered America, some thought it might be a kind of Eden. Explorers recounted their tales of naked savages, snakes, and low-hanging...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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