15 - Bill Bonner on sound money, civil society and the Trade of the Decade

In this week’s episode of the Bonner Private Research podcast, I’m joined by Bill Bonner, author and founder of the Bonner Private Research Group. Today, Bill and I talk about currency as a fundamental building block of civilization, and why America is coming apart. We also touch on why getting out of dollars seems like a sensible idea, and identify the Primary Trend for the next decade. So please, join us for all that and more, in my conversation with Bill, below… Bullet Points 00:50 - Group thinking 04:00 - Sound money and civil society 06:40 - Life in Nicaragua and a word on travel advisories and “crisis vacationing” 09:22 - Venezuela, a real “worker’s paradise” 10:47 - Bill reminisces on his very first Trade of the Decade 12:20 - Bill on Richard Russle’s Dow Theory Letters and the Primary Trends that fortunes are made of... 14:06 - Identifying the Primary Trend for the next decade 16:18 - From bailing out Wall Street to bailing out Main Street 17:15 - Universal Basic Income (UBI), the next step from “stimmy checks” 17:50 - Get out of dollars… but get into what? 18:57 - Argentine real estate as a hedge against rampant peso-inflation 21:11 - Bill wades into crypto... as a pedagogical tool rather than an investment one 24:00 - When you get out of dollars, there are lots of places you can go 25:05 - Buy energy... big, bad, ugly, unpopular energy 27:44 - America is coming apart - financially, sociologically and culturally... 30:12 - Bill Bonner on the Bill O'Reilly saga 29:17 - Donald Trump’s disservice 31:11 - The currency as a fundamental building block of civilization 34:20 - What happens when we’re told “capitalism fails”? And what is really going on behind the scenes? 37:35 - The insurrection in the Capitol was a farce, says Bill