The trick for investors and savers is to avoid the rush. The doors welcoming you into the bubble country may be wide. But the door out the back squeezes tight as soon as you try to get out.
Yes Bill, most intelligent people have come to the fact that globalist are the problem, not nationalists. “In a bombshell speech, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EUROPEAN UNION A COMPLETE FAILURE in front of global elites by stating, "Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation and zero growth." President Trump is Right again.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
apart from the big issue of Independence, Brexit was enacted because of the red tape & zero growth you describe.
The EU also has , or had when I last looked 20 years ago, has never ever had a clean annual audit of their wild expenditure & income. Let that sink in ...nobody would buy a company that did not have a clean audit, but the EU gets away with it year in, year out
Yes Vern, the entire corrupt experiment of the EU has failed miserably. Destroying the sovereignty of each member nation, and bankrupting them with insane policies. It’s all crumbling down now and we are going to see unprecedented changes this year. The promoters and globalists who are responsible, will hopefully be held accountable and brought to justice 🙏 Many world leaders will end up with Nicolas Maduro…Obama, Hillary and Bill, Bush’s, Bidens and dozens of other corrupt globalist traitors. 🙏
I like to think that someone grown up in the room sent him a message. Likely the Generals staring down the barrel of a tour of duty in Greenland rather than Okinawa or Cyprus.
Even better, maybe they hired a politically savvy spin doctor instead of the sycophants he had before.
“THE GREENLAND BRIEFING — TUCKERFIED”
(Situation Room. Trump is seated like a bored toddler. Generals tense. Malcolm Tucker storms in like an irate thunder god with a Glasgow postcode.)
Tucker:
Right! What the f—ing fresh hell is this about you trying to buy Greenland?
Did you confuse international diplomacy with f—ing Zillow again?
Trump:
Greenland’s very valuable. People say so. Tremendous minerals.
Tucker:
Minerals? The only thing that place has in abundance is ice and the type of people who’ll cheerfully club you with a frozen fish if you annoy them.
Jesus Christ, I’ve seen more strategic value in a collapsed garden shed.
General 1:
Sir, as we’ve been explaining—
Tucker:
Oh shut it, Captain Corduroy. You’ve been explaining it for three years, he still thinks NATO is a gym membership where he’s the only one who turns up for leg day.
Trump:
We pay for everything!
Tucker:
Oh here we go. The “we pay for everything” routine. You don’t pay for everything — you barely pay attention.
Let me enlighten your golden-toilet brain:
The U.S. is the only country that’s ever invoked Article 5. After 9/11.
And those NATO allies you keep slagging off?
They turned up.
They fought.
They died.
In Iraq. In Afghanistan.
For you. For the alliance. For the thing you treat like a bloody loyalty card at Bed Bath & Beyond.
Trump:
Well, Denmark is very unfair. They won’t sell Greenland. I want Greenland, its a beautiful deal.
Tucker:
Because it’s a country, not a f—ing Trump Tower franchise!
Christ almighty, what next?
You going to rock up to Canada and ask if they’ll flog you Newfoundland because you “like the shape”?
General 2:
Sir, we already have massive infrastructure in allied nations—bases, ports, logistics networks—
Tucker:
Exactly!
You have enough military hardware parked in friendly countries to invade Mars before breakfast.
But no, you want to spend your time trying to buy the world’s least convenient ice cube.
Trump:
But it’s big. Very, very big.
Tucker:
So is your ego, and that’s not a reason to annex land. If it was, you’d have bought the moon by now and rebranded it “Trump Light™”.
General 3:
Sir, ignoring NATO sacrifices undermines—
Tucker:
Undermines?
Calling it “undermining” is like calling Chernobyl a “wee electrical issue”.
He’s s—tting on the graves of allied soldiers because he thinks defence spending works like paying for rounds at a bar.
“Well I bought the last pint so NATO owes me a kebab.”
F—ing hell.
Trump:
Greenland would’ve been a good deal. A big, beautiful deal. The best deal the world has ever...
Tucker:
A good deal?
You couldn’t negotiate a good deal if the other side was unconscious and you’d bribed the referee.
The only thing Greenland dodged was becoming the first territory in history to declare independence out of sheer embarrassment.
Trump:
So… you’re saying no?
Tucker:
I’m saying: stop trying to buy countries, stop p—ing on allies like an incontinent Rottweiler, and start acting like the leader of a military alliance instead of a man who’s watched Risk being played once on YouTube.
This advertisement has been brought to you by another globalist with only your best interest in mind. If you don’t believe that, watch MSNBC for the latest distorted version of reality 🤔
you know that NFL ref who seems to miss all the big calls, then catches a small retaliation? Bill is that ref who only sees the retaliation.....just sayin'
So Bill has this problem...a big one. TDS and its getting worse. Seek medical help Bill.
Now Bill is correct to cite the 1951 Truman Denmark Treaty on Greenland and we had over 17 bases on Greenland during the Cold War and over 10,000 airmen, sailors and marines and some Army guys there, shivering and waiting on the Call to BOMB someone. Rumors, I dunno, of having NUKES THERE as in Missiles but I think it was nuke bombs on planes. Clinton shut everything down, including bases in Alaska (I served there among other ships/stations) Clinton balanced the budget by TRASHING AND SLASHING DOD. So NATO has the POWER now to order the bases restored and remanned and SHOULD DO SO. Why didnt Trump just use Rubio to make a call to Copenhagen and REMIND them of the Treaty and then call Brussels and say, "GET GOING. REMAN AND REESTABLISH THE BASES CLINTON CLOSED. NOW.") I dunno. But the farce of public chattering and X and Facebook and Truth Social and that NONSENSE, and Trumps propensity to like Rags to Read....he doesnt read the WSJ, his staff does.
And DEBT is the problem. Not going away and in fact accelerating as MANY including Dyson and Rickards and Casey and others have warned for 5 years or more....and the FED IS TRAPPED AND MUST DEVALUE DOLLAR (soft default on bonds) because Fed Govt is BANKRUPT and HARD DEFAULT is unthinkable.....truly. So printing money is what the FED MUST AND WILL DO. Now Bessent says Treasury will ensure GDP is faster than the GRIZZLY BEAR eating Salmon in the River i Alaska...and can out run the bear. Maybe. Maybe not.
Mr. Patrick G: Yes, Bill--seems--to have a severe case of TDS. And about Bill's comments about Pres. Trump's supposedly-failed Greenland fight with globalist European leaders, here is an actual attempt of an analysis of this matter from Breitbart financial analyst John Carney:
“The president’s declared desire to own Greenland was clearly the opening bid in a negotiation. It has been reported that the U.S. may actually get some sovereignty over pieces of Greenland where we have military bases, some rights with respect to Greenland’s rare earth minerals, and a plan to secure shipping lanes in the North Atlantic. It also seems likely that NATO allies will commit more funding to the defense of Greenland and the Arctic. Most importantly, we got our allies to agree to work with us to prevent Russia and China from gaining a foothold in Greenland.”
Bill must know that Pres. Trump's negotiation strategy is initial bombast to grab attention over the enormous, distracting noise of an Internet world, then to compromise. It is an obvious negotiating strategy Mr. Trump has been using even before he was president. But I'm beginning to wonder if Bill is capable of understanding this or understanding much of anything anymore. Or Bill is a very bored billionaire who shamelessly cherry-picks to see how much argument/debate he can stir up among his readers. Then when it does, it thrills him, bringing him out of his funk.
Still trying to figure out the cognitive dissonance of the CCP being a existential threat. Maybe you can educate me by answering two questions. First, if China is our mortal enemy why is Trump still selling his $59.99 Bibles printed in China for $3 a pop? Second, if China is our mortal enemy how was it possible for Elon Musk to get a security clearance to get access to our social security data, especially knowing that Elon has billions in Chinese investments and close connections to the dreaded Chinese Commies?
We’re trying to do something historically unnatural: maintain a potentially hostile military relationship alongside a deeply intertwined economic one.
George Friedman calls it "re-anchoring".
The old tethers bound to Soviet/U.S. cold war strategies is dead.
Dragging the anchor towards China creates a lot of unease...
Things like icebound islands, polar routes, forgotten chokepoints, trade routes and communications... and perhaps most importantly space - suddenly matter again.
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This re-anchoring did not derive from politics, rather technology and the advances that can be had have allowed/motivated the political landscape to change.
Poor Cartero - he not only has TDS but has now developed MDS - Musk Derangement Syndrome. This country's 38.6T in the whole and he's worried about $59.99 Bibles - hint, free market - don't buy the F'ing thing! As far as SS data? Ask any illegal in this country, I bet they have plenty of numbers that they didn't get from Musk.
Shiny update - the barbarous relic $4,980, sister Silver $102 - shout out to my fellow apes!
As far as Elon, I glad you accept the fact that a known drug user with connections to a communist country can get a top secret clearance. Progress! Here's part of the bit From did about the great Elon: "Then there's Elon Musk, the genius who tweets 'China is an existential threat!' while his Tesla factories in Shanghai pump out half his cars, suck up billions in Chinese subsidies, and kiss the ring of the Communist Party every time he lands. The guy who wants to save America from the evil Chinese... but can't survive without their cheap batteries and cheap labor. Hypocrisy? Nah, that's just good business, baby!"
My disease is not TDS or TMS it BDS - Bullshit Derangement Syndrome.
Alan, I don't give a rat's ass about Donnie's $59.99 Bibles printed in China for $3. I actually find it amusing that anyone believes this guy. So amusing that I had Elon's Grok write this George Carlin standup bit for me - "Trump screams 'America First!' and 'China's stealing our jobs!' while his fancy $60 God Bless the USA Bibles get printed by the millions... in goddamn China! Yeah, the same China he calls the biggest threat to humanity. But hey, those tariffs? They don't apply to his holy merch. Gotta keep the profits flowing, right? Priorities"
Hey Angry, I replied to you below for clarification. Still trying to figure out how Elon got a security clearance to access our SS info knowing that he has close personal and economic ties to our "adversary" China.
You would have made a great politician. The specific point is it should have been impossible for a known drug user and investor in a communist country to get any type of clearance. I had to get a Top Secret Clearance back in 1976 just to become a guard at a nuclear missile site in South Korea. Do you think they would have given it to me if I was a drug user with Chinese Communist connections? Like Carlin said - It's a big club, and we're not in it.
Bill, I am confused but do confess that I do not like our debt anymore than you do. However, the chart you showed yesterday of "Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities" did show China reducing their holding between 11/24 and 01/26 by 86 billion dollars, but it also showed all other nations on the list increase their holdings by 11% or approximately 565 billion dollars. That increase represents about 86% of China total holdings, in my mind almost eliminating that leverage.
It CAN happen here, as another forgotten book title warned. We elected a strutting 'buffoon' who conned us with lies, put his NIL everywhere and monetized it, bullied others internally & externally, pardoned his private army that formed ICE, rattles swords all over the world--now we pay for it.
Wake up, Tom: real inflation (not the bs Trump feeds us every day), homelessness, people (lots of people) who can’t find jobs, crumbling industries (except war merchants), booming foreign alliances, $1.2 trillion China trade surplus, devastated farmers, universal recognition of US buffoonery, over the cliff tourism decline, etc. The guy I voted for promised peace and prosperity and is leading us into one conflict after another—recipe for 1930s depression.
all of which were created and by past administrations. You cannot honestly tell us that all these wo’s were Trumps creation. IF so he must be extra terrestrial to invoke that much crap in one year. Be reasonable, all that crap has gone on for decades, and the grift (like the Minnesota fraud scandal) has done nothing for the average American but raise their taxes. But I’m sure Billy Boy sees it differently.
Thank you, Tom, if you’re serious. Actually I think Trump’s doing the world a big favor: let loose of all your US coattails, believe in yourself, and form your own alliances.
In 1900, large business owners were clamoring for Tariffs. In the 70’s when they controlled the world economy they were clamoring for NAFTA and Free Trade, freedom to move factories to low wage countries. They destroyed America and the American worker. To make America great again you have to destroy their power, recreate nationalist populism and destroy the power of the elite and restore democracy. Either Trump can do it or we get dystopia, massive suffering, the reign of terror. Don’t worry, in a hundred years it will be history, the inevitable progress of truth. Or the same old cyclical insanity perpetrated by despicable men and, now, moronic women.
I have a couple of Hungarian Bilpengos (20 Zeros). Also some 500m Deutchmarks (1924), 1 Million Bolivares from Venezuela (2020) big Tesla Yugoslavia denominations from 1993 (10 zeros) & 100 Trillion Zimbabwe $ (14 zeros) notes from 2008 as tangible reminders of extreme Hyperinflation and reminders of terrible times
All framed in the downstairs WC, which don't seem to kill the vibe at parties
The way things are going you can add US$ to your downstairs WC. collection. But don't buy them just now- wait until probably the 2028 Defense budget where 10 trillion will be the request.
We'll see when/if it all collapses. Ol' LSO says by the end of December 2026, full-on depression. Again, we'll see, but I don't think so. Election year. Maybe in 2027 (when the Dems are back in control of Congress.)
So, in the meantime, I'm enjoying the melt-up...which includes the BPR-forbidden index funds and other equities in addition to the BPR ships and oil. Oh yes, stops are in place.
I'm with you on enjoying the melt-up and protecting the downside with trailing stops. But what's going on with silver and gold is nevertheless disconcerting, as it hearkens some nasty times ahead and raises the question: what replaces a dying dollar, or for that matter, a dying country. I'm too old to go full-on survivalist.
All true. But all I have is one vote, and that seems to be meaningless. Thought Repubs, if elected, were gonna come in and get the federal government fiscal 'House" in order. Guess not. Just more deficit spending. This is the one thing for me that has been total disappointment with Trump. I (apparently naively) expected some fiscal responsibility (Milei-style) in DC. Sighhhh....
So, figure I might as well make hay while the sun's shining! Ride this wave...until it crashes. Then hope I have enough left to live on.
Would be helpful to hear a recommendation on a realistic option to Treasuries as a liquid part of one’s portfolio? (Emphasis on liquid vs hard gold/silver)
The hypocrisy is beyond comprehension! Just like Bill's logic! They fly their jets to Davos, sipping Champagne to arrive and lecture the world on carbon footprints, while wanting to steal Russia's resources.
As a Hungarian, the image of the pengő always makes me uneasy. Hungary still holds the world record for inflation — after WWII, prices were rising by about 207% per day. It’s a reminder that currency collapse is not just a theory or a matter of history. Sometimes I wonder whether I won’t just read about a monetary breakdown — but actually witness one with my own eyes.
I recently reminded some old colleagues in Asset Management how I predicted the current run up in precious metals as a result of currency debasement by deficit spending, in 2006...
My point is not that I, and the Bonner team, are far sighted and intelligent, it was a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that if you hold the same opinion long enough you'll eventually be right (just as I fixed my hairstyle and preferred fashion 30 years ago and have been "trendy" twice since completely by accident).
Yes Bill, most intelligent people have come to the fact that globalist are the problem, not nationalists. “In a bombshell speech, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EUROPEAN UNION A COMPLETE FAILURE in front of global elites by stating, "Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation and zero growth." President Trump is Right again.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
apart from the big issue of Independence, Brexit was enacted because of the red tape & zero growth you describe.
The EU also has , or had when I last looked 20 years ago, has never ever had a clean annual audit of their wild expenditure & income. Let that sink in ...nobody would buy a company that did not have a clean audit, but the EU gets away with it year in, year out
Yes Vern, the entire corrupt experiment of the EU has failed miserably. Destroying the sovereignty of each member nation, and bankrupting them with insane policies. It’s all crumbling down now and we are going to see unprecedented changes this year. The promoters and globalists who are responsible, will hopefully be held accountable and brought to justice 🙏 Many world leaders will end up with Nicolas Maduro…Obama, Hillary and Bill, Bush’s, Bidens and dozens of other corrupt globalist traitors. 🙏
We can only hope
Neither does the Pentagon. And look where they are pouring money into…
The same is true of the US Dept of War.
Don’t EVER tell Billy “TDS” Bonner that Trump was/is right. It would be akin to pissing up a rope!
Please tell what is Trump right about??
So far, EVERYTHING 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nothing. He opens his mouth and lies flow like lava from a hell hole.
You are the jackass. I think you are ticked because your elite buddies at Davos are being taken down by Pres. Trump.
I wonder if the whole point of talking about taking Greenland by force was to make the EU face the fact that they would be powerless to stop it.
On a side note, it seems pretty clear that many EU citizens are sick to death with the EU specifically and globalism in general.
they are
I like to think that someone grown up in the room sent him a message. Likely the Generals staring down the barrel of a tour of duty in Greenland rather than Okinawa or Cyprus.
Even better, maybe they hired a politically savvy spin doctor instead of the sycophants he had before.
“THE GREENLAND BRIEFING — TUCKERFIED”
(Situation Room. Trump is seated like a bored toddler. Generals tense. Malcolm Tucker storms in like an irate thunder god with a Glasgow postcode.)
Tucker:
Right! What the f—ing fresh hell is this about you trying to buy Greenland?
Did you confuse international diplomacy with f—ing Zillow again?
Trump:
Greenland’s very valuable. People say so. Tremendous minerals.
Tucker:
Minerals? The only thing that place has in abundance is ice and the type of people who’ll cheerfully club you with a frozen fish if you annoy them.
Jesus Christ, I’ve seen more strategic value in a collapsed garden shed.
General 1:
Sir, as we’ve been explaining—
Tucker:
Oh shut it, Captain Corduroy. You’ve been explaining it for three years, he still thinks NATO is a gym membership where he’s the only one who turns up for leg day.
Trump:
We pay for everything!
Tucker:
Oh here we go. The “we pay for everything” routine. You don’t pay for everything — you barely pay attention.
Let me enlighten your golden-toilet brain:
The U.S. is the only country that’s ever invoked Article 5. After 9/11.
And those NATO allies you keep slagging off?
They turned up.
They fought.
They died.
In Iraq. In Afghanistan.
For you. For the alliance. For the thing you treat like a bloody loyalty card at Bed Bath & Beyond.
Trump:
Well, Denmark is very unfair. They won’t sell Greenland. I want Greenland, its a beautiful deal.
Tucker:
Because it’s a country, not a f—ing Trump Tower franchise!
Christ almighty, what next?
You going to rock up to Canada and ask if they’ll flog you Newfoundland because you “like the shape”?
General 2:
Sir, we already have massive infrastructure in allied nations—bases, ports, logistics networks—
Tucker:
Exactly!
You have enough military hardware parked in friendly countries to invade Mars before breakfast.
But no, you want to spend your time trying to buy the world’s least convenient ice cube.
Trump:
But it’s big. Very, very big.
Tucker:
So is your ego, and that’s not a reason to annex land. If it was, you’d have bought the moon by now and rebranded it “Trump Light™”.
General 3:
Sir, ignoring NATO sacrifices undermines—
Tucker:
Undermines?
Calling it “undermining” is like calling Chernobyl a “wee electrical issue”.
He’s s—tting on the graves of allied soldiers because he thinks defence spending works like paying for rounds at a bar.
“Well I bought the last pint so NATO owes me a kebab.”
F—ing hell.
Trump:
Greenland would’ve been a good deal. A big, beautiful deal. The best deal the world has ever...
Tucker:
A good deal?
You couldn’t negotiate a good deal if the other side was unconscious and you’d bribed the referee.
The only thing Greenland dodged was becoming the first territory in history to declare independence out of sheer embarrassment.
Trump:
So… you’re saying no?
Tucker:
I’m saying: stop trying to buy countries, stop p—ing on allies like an incontinent Rottweiler, and start acting like the leader of a military alliance instead of a man who’s watched Risk being played once on YouTube.
Trump:
Fine. We’ll cancel Greenland.
Tucker:
Brilliant.
Now let’s move on to the next crisis.
This advertisement has been brought to you by another globalist with only your best interest in mind. If you don’t believe that, watch MSNBC for the latest distorted version of reality 🤔
Pretty damn accurate.
I wonder what William Seward would say...
Bravo
Amen Lion!
Was that a trick question? I believe silver is hitting $100 right now or damn close to it. In Shanghai it has hit 100/oz
And I followed advice and sold half....man
First lesson I learned here was never follow Bills advice on anything. Dan is the ONLy logical person to listen to.
you know that NFL ref who seems to miss all the big calls, then catches a small retaliation? Bill is that ref who only sees the retaliation.....just sayin'
So Bill has this problem...a big one. TDS and its getting worse. Seek medical help Bill.
Now Bill is correct to cite the 1951 Truman Denmark Treaty on Greenland and we had over 17 bases on Greenland during the Cold War and over 10,000 airmen, sailors and marines and some Army guys there, shivering and waiting on the Call to BOMB someone. Rumors, I dunno, of having NUKES THERE as in Missiles but I think it was nuke bombs on planes. Clinton shut everything down, including bases in Alaska (I served there among other ships/stations) Clinton balanced the budget by TRASHING AND SLASHING DOD. So NATO has the POWER now to order the bases restored and remanned and SHOULD DO SO. Why didnt Trump just use Rubio to make a call to Copenhagen and REMIND them of the Treaty and then call Brussels and say, "GET GOING. REMAN AND REESTABLISH THE BASES CLINTON CLOSED. NOW.") I dunno. But the farce of public chattering and X and Facebook and Truth Social and that NONSENSE, and Trumps propensity to like Rags to Read....he doesnt read the WSJ, his staff does.
And DEBT is the problem. Not going away and in fact accelerating as MANY including Dyson and Rickards and Casey and others have warned for 5 years or more....and the FED IS TRAPPED AND MUST DEVALUE DOLLAR (soft default on bonds) because Fed Govt is BANKRUPT and HARD DEFAULT is unthinkable.....truly. So printing money is what the FED MUST AND WILL DO. Now Bessent says Treasury will ensure GDP is faster than the GRIZZLY BEAR eating Salmon in the River i Alaska...and can out run the bear. Maybe. Maybe not.
I am long GOLD. HOLDING. Til Dyson sells.
Mr. Patrick G: Yes, Bill--seems--to have a severe case of TDS. And about Bill's comments about Pres. Trump's supposedly-failed Greenland fight with globalist European leaders, here is an actual attempt of an analysis of this matter from Breitbart financial analyst John Carney:
“The president’s declared desire to own Greenland was clearly the opening bid in a negotiation. It has been reported that the U.S. may actually get some sovereignty over pieces of Greenland where we have military bases, some rights with respect to Greenland’s rare earth minerals, and a plan to secure shipping lanes in the North Atlantic. It also seems likely that NATO allies will commit more funding to the defense of Greenland and the Arctic. Most importantly, we got our allies to agree to work with us to prevent Russia and China from gaining a foothold in Greenland.”
Bill must know that Pres. Trump's negotiation strategy is initial bombast to grab attention over the enormous, distracting noise of an Internet world, then to compromise. It is an obvious negotiating strategy Mr. Trump has been using even before he was president. But I'm beginning to wonder if Bill is capable of understanding this or understanding much of anything anymore. Or Bill is a very bored billionaire who shamelessly cherry-picks to see how much argument/debate he can stir up among his readers. Then when it does, it thrills him, bringing him out of his funk.
Billy needs to take two Fukitols in the morning and perhaps two again at night!
Where do you buy that stuff at?
Some folks (BPR) wondering what the hell was that Greenland thing about?
Notably, the global masses have now been educated to the Arctic security risks and dangers of conducting business as usual.
Heretofore likely unknown by your average citizen voter.
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cc: Putin and the CCP.
Still trying to figure out the cognitive dissonance of the CCP being a existential threat. Maybe you can educate me by answering two questions. First, if China is our mortal enemy why is Trump still selling his $59.99 Bibles printed in China for $3 a pop? Second, if China is our mortal enemy how was it possible for Elon Musk to get a security clearance to get access to our social security data, especially knowing that Elon has billions in Chinese investments and close connections to the dreaded Chinese Commies?
...who said China was a mortal enemy?
The CCP is the U.S. adversary.
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We’re trying to do something historically unnatural: maintain a potentially hostile military relationship alongside a deeply intertwined economic one.
George Friedman calls it "re-anchoring".
The old tethers bound to Soviet/U.S. cold war strategies is dead.
Dragging the anchor towards China creates a lot of unease...
Things like icebound islands, polar routes, forgotten chokepoints, trade routes and communications... and perhaps most importantly space - suddenly matter again.
-
This re-anchoring did not derive from politics, rather technology and the advances that can be had have allowed/motivated the political landscape to change.
Poor Cartero - he not only has TDS but has now developed MDS - Musk Derangement Syndrome. This country's 38.6T in the whole and he's worried about $59.99 Bibles - hint, free market - don't buy the F'ing thing! As far as SS data? Ask any illegal in this country, I bet they have plenty of numbers that they didn't get from Musk.
Shiny update - the barbarous relic $4,980, sister Silver $102 - shout out to my fellow apes!
Somethings going to break.......
As far as Elon, I glad you accept the fact that a known drug user with connections to a communist country can get a top secret clearance. Progress! Here's part of the bit From did about the great Elon: "Then there's Elon Musk, the genius who tweets 'China is an existential threat!' while his Tesla factories in Shanghai pump out half his cars, suck up billions in Chinese subsidies, and kiss the ring of the Communist Party every time he lands. The guy who wants to save America from the evil Chinese... but can't survive without their cheap batteries and cheap labor. Hypocrisy? Nah, that's just good business, baby!"
My disease is not TDS or TMS it BDS - Bullshit Derangement Syndrome.
Alan, I don't give a rat's ass about Donnie's $59.99 Bibles printed in China for $3. I actually find it amusing that anyone believes this guy. So amusing that I had Elon's Grok write this George Carlin standup bit for me - "Trump screams 'America First!' and 'China's stealing our jobs!' while his fancy $60 God Bless the USA Bibles get printed by the millions... in goddamn China! Yeah, the same China he calls the biggest threat to humanity. But hey, those tariffs? They don't apply to his holy merch. Gotta keep the profits flowing, right? Priorities"
Hey Angry, I replied to you below for clarification. Still trying to figure out how Elon got a security clearance to access our SS info knowing that he has close personal and economic ties to our "adversary" China.
At least we know Elon was privy to the information.
Why don't you tell us which unelected person was entitled to accumulate and sift through all that data before Elon?
You would have made a great politician. The specific point is it should have been impossible for a known drug user and investor in a communist country to get any type of clearance. I had to get a Top Secret Clearance back in 1976 just to become a guard at a nuclear missile site in South Korea. Do you think they would have given it to me if I was a drug user with Chinese Communist connections? Like Carlin said - It's a big club, and we're not in it.
It's not about Musk or his views...
It's simply you and I aren't worth north of $700 billion.
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Soros was a Nazi sympathizer and funds many ideologically anti-American causes.
Soros' monetary influence is likely greater than Elon Musk's.
BLM, defund Police, Free Palestine, LGBTQ programs and a host of other progressive ideological policies.
Channeling money and personnel in support of these policies has created societal upheaval and cost billions in many countries.
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Lo and behold, Scott Bessent is an ex-Soros economic warrior!
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You and George are right, it is a big club.
Trump trying to buy Greenland is like a drunk Uncle trying to buy parts for a car he doesn't have, with money he doesn't have, on EBay at 4am
Thank God William Seward didn't think as you...
Bill, I am confused but do confess that I do not like our debt anymore than you do. However, the chart you showed yesterday of "Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities" did show China reducing their holding between 11/24 and 01/26 by 86 billion dollars, but it also showed all other nations on the list increase their holdings by 11% or approximately 565 billion dollars. That increase represents about 86% of China total holdings, in my mind almost eliminating that leverage.
Jim C
That kind of killed Bill's whole narrative, guess he didn't do his research as well as you did.
Good job.
It CAN happen here, as another forgotten book title warned. We elected a strutting 'buffoon' who conned us with lies, put his NIL everywhere and monetized it, bullied others internally & externally, pardoned his private army that formed ICE, rattles swords all over the world--now we pay for it.
How are we paying for it? A bit of specificity would augment your credibility. Thoughts are nice but facts are golden.
Wake up, Tom: real inflation (not the bs Trump feeds us every day), homelessness, people (lots of people) who can’t find jobs, crumbling industries (except war merchants), booming foreign alliances, $1.2 trillion China trade surplus, devastated farmers, universal recognition of US buffoonery, over the cliff tourism decline, etc. The guy I voted for promised peace and prosperity and is leading us into one conflict after another—recipe for 1930s depression.
Great opinion Ed, thx for your context.
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all of which were created and by past administrations. You cannot honestly tell us that all these wo’s were Trumps creation. IF so he must be extra terrestrial to invoke that much crap in one year. Be reasonable, all that crap has gone on for decades, and the grift (like the Minnesota fraud scandal) has done nothing for the average American but raise their taxes. But I’m sure Billy Boy sees it differently.
Thank you, Tom, if you’re serious. Actually I think Trump’s doing the world a big favor: let loose of all your US coattails, believe in yourself, and form your own alliances.
In 1900, large business owners were clamoring for Tariffs. In the 70’s when they controlled the world economy they were clamoring for NAFTA and Free Trade, freedom to move factories to low wage countries. They destroyed America and the American worker. To make America great again you have to destroy their power, recreate nationalist populism and destroy the power of the elite and restore democracy. Either Trump can do it or we get dystopia, massive suffering, the reign of terror. Don’t worry, in a hundred years it will be history, the inevitable progress of truth. Or the same old cyclical insanity perpetrated by despicable men and, now, moronic women.
Exactly my friend 🙏
The more President Trump wins, the more mentally unstable these freaks become 🤪
Steve L, your name calling is really genius. Who taught you to be able to put 2 insults in only one sentence?
WOW! Two more! Not a mere libtard but a TRUE one!
Silver is $100 already today 1/23/26....
200$ by June🤑
I have a couple of Hungarian Bilpengos (20 Zeros). Also some 500m Deutchmarks (1924), 1 Million Bolivares from Venezuela (2020) big Tesla Yugoslavia denominations from 1993 (10 zeros) & 100 Trillion Zimbabwe $ (14 zeros) notes from 2008 as tangible reminders of extreme Hyperinflation and reminders of terrible times
All framed in the downstairs WC, which don't seem to kill the vibe at parties
The way things are going you can add US$ to your downstairs WC. collection. But don't buy them just now- wait until probably the 2028 Defense budget where 10 trillion will be the request.
We'll see when/if it all collapses. Ol' LSO says by the end of December 2026, full-on depression. Again, we'll see, but I don't think so. Election year. Maybe in 2027 (when the Dems are back in control of Congress.)
So, in the meantime, I'm enjoying the melt-up...which includes the BPR-forbidden index funds and other equities in addition to the BPR ships and oil. Oh yes, stops are in place.
I'm with you on enjoying the melt-up and protecting the downside with trailing stops. But what's going on with silver and gold is nevertheless disconcerting, as it hearkens some nasty times ahead and raises the question: what replaces a dying dollar, or for that matter, a dying country. I'm too old to go full-on survivalist.
All true. But all I have is one vote, and that seems to be meaningless. Thought Repubs, if elected, were gonna come in and get the federal government fiscal 'House" in order. Guess not. Just more deficit spending. This is the one thing for me that has been total disappointment with Trump. I (apparently naively) expected some fiscal responsibility (Milei-style) in DC. Sighhhh....
So, figure I might as well make hay while the sun's shining! Ride this wave...until it crashes. Then hope I have enough left to live on.
ditto!
because ol’ lso has the inside track on everything! No one else does, but he sure thinks he is the FOC. (Fountain of Knowledge)
Amen!
Would be helpful to hear a recommendation on a realistic option to Treasuries as a liquid part of one’s portfolio? (Emphasis on liquid vs hard gold/silver)
I am leaning more towards short term Gilts & working away from the Money Market for safety
The hypocrisy is beyond comprehension! Just like Bill's logic! They fly their jets to Davos, sipping Champagne to arrive and lecture the world on carbon footprints, while wanting to steal Russia's resources.
Give me a break aholes!
Silver is already over $100. Gold is around $17 from $5,000.
What happens next may astonish the world once this psychological barrier has been broken through.
As a Hungarian, the image of the pengő always makes me uneasy. Hungary still holds the world record for inflation — after WWII, prices were rising by about 207% per day. It’s a reminder that currency collapse is not just a theory or a matter of history. Sometimes I wonder whether I won’t just read about a monetary breakdown — but actually witness one with my own eyes.
I recently reminded some old colleagues in Asset Management how I predicted the current run up in precious metals as a result of currency debasement by deficit spending, in 2006...
My point is not that I, and the Bonner team, are far sighted and intelligent, it was a tongue in cheek reference to the fact that if you hold the same opinion long enough you'll eventually be right (just as I fixed my hairstyle and preferred fashion 30 years ago and have been "trendy" twice since completely by accident).
Very true analogy on Bill, even a broken clock is right twice a day 🤔