When the stock market closed, just four hours before this apocalypse was to begin, US capital values were about where they were when the market opened. The stock market didn’t take any of it seriously
If Trump’s war indeed accelerates the trend of other countries selling US treasuries, interest rates have a ways to go UP. I guess I am missing how this war is a “total victory”. Higher rates will push our debt payments to the moon. Who is paying the $200,000,000,000 plus price tag, anyways? Did we secure the weapons grade uranium? Nope. How about eliminating the Iranian guard regime, they are still in power aren’t they? And now the Iranians have a toll booth on the Straits after the US failed to secure them. Those who believe this was a total victory have true Trump Derangement Syndrome, as in they have abandoned reason and become nothing more than true believers. Please pass the Kool-aid….
Iranian mullahs have had a “toll booth” for 47 years. Where were you all that time? For you, it’s as if history didn't start until Trump became President.
A feckless world never invested in bypassing that bedamned strait. So, the threat was always there and it was the toll that shielded Iran's goal of becoming a nuclear power.
Good morning, Bill. I’ve been reading you for at least 25 years and it’s been time well spent.
Lately, the best part of my day is seeing how you daily jerk the chain of a very select, and highly sophisticated, group of “paying customers”. What seems to really irritate them is how “old out-of-step Bill Bonner” can own a French Chateaux, an estate in Ireland, a thousand-hectare ranch in Argentina, a Nicaragua resort, plus untold properties in Maryland, USA.
All the above was made possible simply by thousands of people like me, willing to pay and use your ideas and writing for over 25 years. I’m certain that both Dan and Tom also treasurer your guidance and leadership.
😂 The ability to make money while sheltered by a free-market system based on individual rights is one thing and something I respect. Understanding basic philosophical principles and political philosophy that makes this happen is quite another. Bonner is a money maker - yes; but he is also a dunce masquerading as an intellectual. When he sticks to financial matters, he is quite good in most cases. When he ventures into politics, political philosophy, the lessons of history as applied to the present day, he is a pretentious mediocrity.
Geez, John, you hit the nail on the head except it is Trump who is a "dunce masquerading as an intellect". No strategy except being a bully and will go down in history as the "Dunce of the Presidency". I just hope America survives his "intellectual" as he drives allies all over the world away from the U.S. and shows the world - other than nuclear weapons - isn't a world power. And, all way gets is more and more countries wanting nuclear weapons. Drink the "kool-aid" if you will - it won't help but that is what the "maga" empire does............
Well, Olso, are you too lazy or just dimwitted to make up your own analogy? You can say a lot of things about Trump, but "masquerading as an intellect" is not one of them. It does apply to Bonner because he pretends to know so much about history and events to make his absurdly loose connections in order to bash Trump. Trump never does this. He is direct and plain spoken... and yes, makes some ridiculous statements. I don't read your posts (except when you respond to me) because I consider them unhinged, like your 'Kool-Aid" drinking comment above about nuclear weapons. You are just spouting leftist anti-Trump propaganda which you do on a regular basis.
Well, Angry, for us peons (and tiny business owners) hope is all we have because the elites do not care about us and that includes Trump and the democrats. Just the way the world works with us humans. As the ol' saying goes - humans never change so things go round and round.
“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” Trump tweeted from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland in 2018.
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Most "smart" folks understand boasting about one's intelligence makes one appear the opposite.
So, on the global stage China's positive perception is higher than the US. Well, George Carlin got it right, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Come on, no one really knows what is happening in China. Maybe someone should interview a Uyghur and get their opinion on China.
Bill, it's too late, but I think it would have been helpful to your world view if you had ever sat down with one of the hostages held in Iran for about 444 days. There wasn't a doubt in their minds that if Carter had won a second term they would have died in Iran. They thanked God every day Reagan had been elected. Those hostages knew what is often overlooked in your perception. Culture matters. Iranian leadership, not the Persian people, honor death. They didn't build their military to protect their borders so they could rule their little fiefdom, unlike North Korea, they are focused on death based on a religious irrational religious zeal that the western mind cannot fathom.
Comparing our present conflict to Rome or Greece or even the Parthian Empire is interesting, but the comparison is irrelevant. I.e. The Parthian empire was religiously diverse and fairly tolerant. The dominant religion was Zoroastrianism which they didn't enforce on the population. Very different than the Iran of today. History is very helpful if you take time to thoroughly explore the contrasts then postulate some lessons for today.
No one knows what is happening in China because it's not covered by our esteemed Operation Mockingbird media. You imply that people who have a more favorable attitude of China than of the US are stupid. But could you list the countries China has invaded or sanctioned this century? Maybe the people with unfavorable attitudes of the US have been victims of our invasions or sanctions.
Well, in the last 100 years China decided to annex Tibet. They were engaged in the Sino-Indian War, and the Vietnam War (lest you forget) and they have also had clashes with the Soviets. Of course, there is their ongoing quiet, but very deliberate invasion of countries in Africa where a soft glove covers an iron fist bent on plundering resources while promises a road. While they haven't attacked, they certainly have their eye on a prize they have wanted for a long time...Taiwan which they lost in about 1895 and then lost again in 1949.
I really don't think you want to go down the China comparison road because they have about 4,000 years of conquest history to pick from.
But we can do the same with the US. As far as the Vietnam War we killed over a million civilians and covered the jungle with chemical weapons that inflicted more casualties on US forces than the NVA did. Speaking of plundering resources what about plundering countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. You mention Tibet, what about Hawaii? Then we can add in slavery and the genocide of the native Americans. The US did auch more effective genocide than Hitler. In fact, Adolf modeled his concentration camps on our reservations.
Calm down. I'm not saying the US is perfect or the penultimate exemplar. The military industrial complex is focused on dollars and the lifeblood for the complex is drawn from the expendable middle-class male that follows orders. However, as ugly as some of our decisions have been and as deplorable as the eugenics propounded by Margaret Sanger were, as adopted by Hitler, I believe the US still holds a moral core. We are a placeholder in history and sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong. But, even on our worst day we are not China that mercilessly slaughtered about 35 million civilians in WWII or another 80 million during Mao Zedongs 'Cultural Revolution.' Every life matters but sometimes perspective is necessary even when it is an ugly perspective.
Where did you get the 35 million civilians killed by China during WW2? Are you sure you're not confusing that with the casualties at the hands of the Japanese invaders? Then what moral code allowed the US to grant immunity to members of Japan's Section 731 in exchange for their biological research data? Sorry but we are no better than the other guys. Hitler even admired the US reservation system as a model for his concentration camps.
Well, gee whiz, Scott - I'm sure you must have figured it out by now that Bonner is not intelligent enough to dig deeper than the surface details of history in order to make his comparisons. He is a dunce masquerading as an intellectual.
Yup and the woke left-liberal Americans and their immigrant counterparts are trying to remove those protections of freedom. If we as Americans allow the left to stack the supreme court it will happen.
It's not just the Wokesters working to limit our first amendment rights. The AIPAC crowd is hard at work trying to censure anyone who criticizes Israel.
Patrick G's comment on opening EU's boarders to the Islamic horde is the single underlying reason for the present EU's behavior toward Amercan foreign policy. The woke and undeniably stupid EU policy to open their boarders and shut down their fossil fuels in favor of the new "green" energy which has done nothing but support woke virtue signaling to the detriment of their economies and their safety. Please, what kind of ideology has the power to bend the will of some very smart politicans to drink the Jonestown kool-aid and destroy their countries? It is the kool-aid of hubris and it is rampant in our world as it has been throughout world history.
Does anyone see what really happened here. At 630 last night, China called Iran and said stop this lunacy. Trump is crazy enough to destroy your oil production capacity and you (Iran), are crazy enough to retaliate by destroying most of the oil production capacity of the rest of the Gulf. If this happens our (China’s), economy will be destroyed and we (China) will be at the mercy of the United States!
Are Tom Dyson and Dan Denning going to their own paid subscription? In other words, do we need to buy their service separately from Bill Bonner's service?
Billy give Patrick G's comment a good read and realize the world we live in not the one that rattles around in your head... Big man Billy our days are numbered (we are about the same age) take a stand, maybe sit down with Mike Adams for a while and if you don't shoot yourself in the head let us know what you really think...
So, China outshines US in a poll taken in 2025. Trump took office in January 20, 2025. Therefore, Trump managed to alienate the multitudes (or whoever voted) immediately after inauguration. Give us credit for being able to think, even if on a limited level. No mention of Biden who was the president for the previous 4 years. Clear your head, Bill; you're being blinded by your anger instead of being led by clear thinking.
Bill. You’re a f@&$(#in% idiot. Do you realize that the Muslim cabal that has been operating since 600 A.D. doesn’t give a shit what you or anyone else in the western world thinks. They are looking for your head and my head and are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens. Wake the fuck up.
My wife and daughter were as put off as Bill over Trumps language.
So too the talking heads on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc, etc.
Not me. I see Trump using the same sort of language as the ME tribal types employ.
Remember "the mother of Battles"?
Right....
The problem with this world is that, to some, the niceties employed with diplomats is simply brushed off as weakness - and weakness invites aggression.
When seeking to communicate, one needs a common language - always.
An old saying; "if you treat your dog like a human, your dog will treat you like a dog"
If Trump’s war indeed accelerates the trend of other countries selling US treasuries, interest rates have a ways to go UP. I guess I am missing how this war is a “total victory”. Higher rates will push our debt payments to the moon. Who is paying the $200,000,000,000 plus price tag, anyways? Did we secure the weapons grade uranium? Nope. How about eliminating the Iranian guard regime, they are still in power aren’t they? And now the Iranians have a toll booth on the Straits after the US failed to secure them. Those who believe this was a total victory have true Trump Derangement Syndrome, as in they have abandoned reason and become nothing more than true believers. Please pass the Kool-aid….
Iranian mullahs have had a “toll booth” for 47 years. Where were you all that time? For you, it’s as if history didn't start until Trump became President.
A feckless world never invested in bypassing that bedamned strait. So, the threat was always there and it was the toll that shielded Iran's goal of becoming a nuclear power.
Well said, perspective is everything.
More on eliminating bottlenecks:
https://www.public.news/p/build-pipelines-diversify-oil-and?publication_id=279400&post_id=193501470&isFreemail=false&r=l1mp&triedRedirect=true
Good morning, Bill. I’ve been reading you for at least 25 years and it’s been time well spent.
Lately, the best part of my day is seeing how you daily jerk the chain of a very select, and highly sophisticated, group of “paying customers”. What seems to really irritate them is how “old out-of-step Bill Bonner” can own a French Chateaux, an estate in Ireland, a thousand-hectare ranch in Argentina, a Nicaragua resort, plus untold properties in Maryland, USA.
All the above was made possible simply by thousands of people like me, willing to pay and use your ideas and writing for over 25 years. I’m certain that both Dan and Tom also treasurer your guidance and leadership.
Thank you,
HBS
😂 The ability to make money while sheltered by a free-market system based on individual rights is one thing and something I respect. Understanding basic philosophical principles and political philosophy that makes this happen is quite another. Bonner is a money maker - yes; but he is also a dunce masquerading as an intellectual. When he sticks to financial matters, he is quite good in most cases. When he ventures into politics, political philosophy, the lessons of history as applied to the present day, he is a pretentious mediocrity.
Geez, John, you hit the nail on the head except it is Trump who is a "dunce masquerading as an intellect". No strategy except being a bully and will go down in history as the "Dunce of the Presidency". I just hope America survives his "intellectual" as he drives allies all over the world away from the U.S. and shows the world - other than nuclear weapons - isn't a world power. And, all way gets is more and more countries wanting nuclear weapons. Drink the "kool-aid" if you will - it won't help but that is what the "maga" empire does............
Well, Olso, are you too lazy or just dimwitted to make up your own analogy? You can say a lot of things about Trump, but "masquerading as an intellect" is not one of them. It does apply to Bonner because he pretends to know so much about history and events to make his absurdly loose connections in order to bash Trump. Trump never does this. He is direct and plain spoken... and yes, makes some ridiculous statements. I don't read your posts (except when you respond to me) because I consider them unhinged, like your 'Kool-Aid" drinking comment above about nuclear weapons. You are just spouting leftist anti-Trump propaganda which you do on a regular basis.
...agreed, Trump is a dunce masquerading as an intellect... in a world of dunces.
And from the best I can tell, the dunces accept.
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Refreshing to hear you have "hope"...
Well, Angry, for us peons (and tiny business owners) hope is all we have because the elites do not care about us and that includes Trump and the democrats. Just the way the world works with us humans. As the ol' saying goes - humans never change so things go round and round.
“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” Trump tweeted from Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland in 2018.
-
Most "smart" folks understand boasting about one's intelligence makes one appear the opposite.
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Trump is a good President
A great salesman...
And the best conman ever...
But "smart" (i.e. intellectual) ...no.
The weird masochists are like a creepy ex who turns up everywhere you go to tell you how over you she is.
I wouldn't mind but they don't bring an open or questioning mind and, like DJT, think that whoever shouts loudest wins the argument.
So, on the global stage China's positive perception is higher than the US. Well, George Carlin got it right, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Come on, no one really knows what is happening in China. Maybe someone should interview a Uyghur and get their opinion on China.
Bill, it's too late, but I think it would have been helpful to your world view if you had ever sat down with one of the hostages held in Iran for about 444 days. There wasn't a doubt in their minds that if Carter had won a second term they would have died in Iran. They thanked God every day Reagan had been elected. Those hostages knew what is often overlooked in your perception. Culture matters. Iranian leadership, not the Persian people, honor death. They didn't build their military to protect their borders so they could rule their little fiefdom, unlike North Korea, they are focused on death based on a religious irrational religious zeal that the western mind cannot fathom.
Comparing our present conflict to Rome or Greece or even the Parthian Empire is interesting, but the comparison is irrelevant. I.e. The Parthian empire was religiously diverse and fairly tolerant. The dominant religion was Zoroastrianism which they didn't enforce on the population. Very different than the Iran of today. History is very helpful if you take time to thoroughly explore the contrasts then postulate some lessons for today.
No one knows what is happening in China because it's not covered by our esteemed Operation Mockingbird media. You imply that people who have a more favorable attitude of China than of the US are stupid. But could you list the countries China has invaded or sanctioned this century? Maybe the people with unfavorable attitudes of the US have been victims of our invasions or sanctions.
Well, in the last 100 years China decided to annex Tibet. They were engaged in the Sino-Indian War, and the Vietnam War (lest you forget) and they have also had clashes with the Soviets. Of course, there is their ongoing quiet, but very deliberate invasion of countries in Africa where a soft glove covers an iron fist bent on plundering resources while promises a road. While they haven't attacked, they certainly have their eye on a prize they have wanted for a long time...Taiwan which they lost in about 1895 and then lost again in 1949.
I really don't think you want to go down the China comparison road because they have about 4,000 years of conquest history to pick from.
But we can do the same with the US. As far as the Vietnam War we killed over a million civilians and covered the jungle with chemical weapons that inflicted more casualties on US forces than the NVA did. Speaking of plundering resources what about plundering countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. You mention Tibet, what about Hawaii? Then we can add in slavery and the genocide of the native Americans. The US did auch more effective genocide than Hitler. In fact, Adolf modeled his concentration camps on our reservations.
Calm down. I'm not saying the US is perfect or the penultimate exemplar. The military industrial complex is focused on dollars and the lifeblood for the complex is drawn from the expendable middle-class male that follows orders. However, as ugly as some of our decisions have been and as deplorable as the eugenics propounded by Margaret Sanger were, as adopted by Hitler, I believe the US still holds a moral core. We are a placeholder in history and sometimes we are right and sometimes we are wrong. But, even on our worst day we are not China that mercilessly slaughtered about 35 million civilians in WWII or another 80 million during Mao Zedongs 'Cultural Revolution.' Every life matters but sometimes perspective is necessary even when it is an ugly perspective.
Where did you get the 35 million civilians killed by China during WW2? Are you sure you're not confusing that with the casualties at the hands of the Japanese invaders? Then what moral code allowed the US to grant immunity to members of Japan's Section 731 in exchange for their biological research data? Sorry but we are no better than the other guys. Hitler even admired the US reservation system as a model for his concentration camps.
Well, gee whiz, Scott - I'm sure you must have figured it out by now that Bonner is not intelligent enough to dig deeper than the surface details of history in order to make his comparisons. He is a dunce masquerading as an intellectual.
The 2 differences between us and the rest of the world are amendments 1&2. Nothing else matters on the world stage.
Yup and the woke left-liberal Americans and their immigrant counterparts are trying to remove those protections of freedom. If we as Americans allow the left to stack the supreme court it will happen.
It's not just the Wokesters working to limit our first amendment rights. The AIPAC crowd is hard at work trying to censure anyone who criticizes Israel.
Patrick G's comment on opening EU's boarders to the Islamic horde is the single underlying reason for the present EU's behavior toward Amercan foreign policy. The woke and undeniably stupid EU policy to open their boarders and shut down their fossil fuels in favor of the new "green" energy which has done nothing but support woke virtue signaling to the detriment of their economies and their safety. Please, what kind of ideology has the power to bend the will of some very smart politicans to drink the Jonestown kool-aid and destroy their countries? It is the kool-aid of hubris and it is rampant in our world as it has been throughout world history.
It’s one thing to declare a cease-fire… It’s another thing for One to hold.
Does anyone see what really happened here. At 630 last night, China called Iran and said stop this lunacy. Trump is crazy enough to destroy your oil production capacity and you (Iran), are crazy enough to retaliate by destroying most of the oil production capacity of the rest of the Gulf. If this happens our (China’s), economy will be destroyed and we (China) will be at the mercy of the United States!
Bill, good you’re getting advice from Tucker Carlson, and I’m sure Margery Green along with the always great leaders in France.
Are Tom Dyson and Dan Denning going to their own paid subscription? In other words, do we need to buy their service separately from Bill Bonner's service?
If that were true, I'd buy Tom and Dan's service and cancel Bonner's.
Billy give Patrick G's comment a good read and realize the world we live in not the one that rattles around in your head... Big man Billy our days are numbered (we are about the same age) take a stand, maybe sit down with Mike Adams for a while and if you don't shoot yourself in the head let us know what you really think...
Trump The Good, The Bad and The Ugly put through the mixmaster of New York, Deal making and breaking, Cajoling and desecrating
So, China outshines US in a poll taken in 2025. Trump took office in January 20, 2025. Therefore, Trump managed to alienate the multitudes (or whoever voted) immediately after inauguration. Give us credit for being able to think, even if on a limited level. No mention of Biden who was the president for the previous 4 years. Clear your head, Bill; you're being blinded by your anger instead of being led by clear thinking.
Whoops, wrong again Billy! TDS!
I just cannot wait for the end of President Trump’s term so we can get back to the letters of the old Bill Bonner.
Bill. You’re a f@&$(#in% idiot. Do you realize that the Muslim cabal that has been operating since 600 A.D. doesn’t give a shit what you or anyone else in the western world thinks. They are looking for your head and my head and are willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens. Wake the fuck up.
My wife and daughter were as put off as Bill over Trumps language.
So too the talking heads on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc, etc.
Not me. I see Trump using the same sort of language as the ME tribal types employ.
Remember "the mother of Battles"?
Right....
The problem with this world is that, to some, the niceties employed with diplomats is simply brushed off as weakness - and weakness invites aggression.
When seeking to communicate, one needs a common language - always.
An old saying; "if you treat your dog like a human, your dog will treat you like a dog"