Happy Easter

A message of thanks from the Bonner Private Research team to you...

Dear Reader,

The BPR offices are closed for Easter Sunday... but I wanted to send you a quick message of gratitude on this holiday weekend. 

It’s been just on four months since we started this foray into the newsletter wilderness... and what a spell it’s been!

Bill, Dan, Tom and I knew it would be something of an adventure, taking up with a new publishing platform, learning the ropes, making some mistakes and generally reckoning our way through a novel venture together. 

Like you, we couldn’t have known what 2022 would bring... though we did have some guesses and suspicions early on. 

The Winter Catastrophe energy briefing, for example – featuring Bill, Rick Rule and Byron King – “aired” to paying subscribers in late December, 2021. 

During the lively discussion, our panel warned of a coming energy crunch... skyrocketing commodity prices... and inflationary pressures the likes of which we hadn’t seen in decades. 

That might have seemed a bit far-fetched for some at the time... until it became a harsh reality. It’s the kind of forecast you hope you’re wrong about, but that you’re glad you prepared for just the same. 

Over these last few months, we’ve brought you dispatches from Youghal, Ireland, San Martin, Buenos Aires, Bariloche and Villa la Angostura in Argentina, plus Tom’s research from Chiswick, London, and Dan’s musings from the High Plains of Laramie, Wyoming. 

Here’s a photo Bill sent of the chapel he’s building - by hand - up in San Martin. I saw it when I visited with my family a few weeks back, perched on a little hill behind the main house. It’s a charming structure, especially when the sunlight shines through the wine-bottle “rose window” cross on the rear wall...

(Bill’s chapel in San Martin, Salta)

There will be plenty more roaming and reckoning, wandering and wondering, in the near future, too, as we try to figure out what’s going on in the world of high finance and lowly politics three... six... twelve months from now... and beyond. 

This weekend, from here in the countryside on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, we pause to take stock of where we are... and to give thanks to our faithful and unfaithful readers alike. 

(Sunset over the campo, a couple of hours north of Buenos Aires)

We’re grateful to have you, dear reader, along for the journey. We thank you for your patience and attention and for the helpful feedback you’ve offered along the way. 

On that note, if you’re enjoying these letters, please consider either becoming a paid subscriber, inviting a friend (or a foe!) along too, or spreading the “good word” by giving a gift subscription. 

The more readers we have in our growing community, the more tools and resources we’ll be able to harness doing what we try to do everyday... that is, connecting the dots and keeping you ahead of the game. 

Happy Easter.

Joel Bowman