One of the charms of democracy is that its elections and succession rules avoid murderous power struggles. But once the rules go out the window, violence tends to come in the front door.
I voted for silver on the poll because it is both an industrial metal and a precious metal. I believe it will do better than gold because the available stocks of silver have been greatly depleted, and demand is about 20% above new mine production plus recycling. And demand is growing, both in the industrial arena, and from investors who realize that they need to have some in their account. We'll see at the end of this year if I am right or not.
Very interesting comments on Nicaragua, Bongo. Don't know how accurate they are coming from you. But the thing that really got me was you equating Trump's election in 2024 to the communist revolution in Russia in 1917. Seems to be a stretch. But I will admit, one good thing came out of that revolution. A women escaped Russia in 1926 and came to America and learned our language (she was born in 1905). Since she was 11 years old, she wanted to be a writer. To be the type of writer she wanted to be, she needed to learn history and philosophy. History she could learn, but she found philosophy to be a wasteland. She realized if she wrote the things she wanted to write in Russia after the revolution, she would be dead within a year. That woman was Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum and took the name Ayn Rand in the US to protect her relatives still in Russia.
Patrick, either you read very little or none of Ayn Rand, or you have a low comprehension level, or a wild imagination, or your college professor totally misled you, because all your "end game" conclusions are totally wrong. After "Atlas Shrugged" was published in 1957, Ayn Rand wrote many non-fiction essays and books spanning thousands of pages stating explicitly her views on issues and government. There is no need to take "her views to logical end game" because she wrote about them explicitly - thousands of pages, which I have read. Except that you may have taken a course on Ayn Rand in college and wrote a paper, nothing else you wrote above is true.
As far as Alan Greenspan, he was an associate of hers in the 1960s and contributed three essays to her non-fiction book, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" which was published in1967. At some point thereafter, maybe as late as the early 70s, he went his own way and joined the mainstream and became the Alan Greenspan we now know with mixed results. They were never lovers.
Feel better? I did not attack you, just indicated you were clueless when it came to Ayn Rand, which turned out to be true. You tried to set yourself up as an authority because you took a college course and wrote a paper. My comments caused you to come clean. Your insistence that Ayn Rand and Greenspan were lovers with no proof (apparently you think proof is writing things in capital letters) is just another indication of how off base you are about Ayn Rand. I've forgotten more about Ayn Rand than you will ever know and if they had that sort of relationship, I would know it. But that is irrelevant, since it is not her personal life that is of interest to me (although you seem to think your Greenspan comment lends credence to your other distortions in that you know more than you really do). What interests me is her ideas. And it is her ideas that you have distorted beyond all recognition.
...and you call me belligerent!!! You are wildly overreacting to my comments. Your assessment of Ayn Rand was so off base, and since you replied directly to my comment, I felt I needed to respond.
I just read Bill's column today (1/27) and see you have many posts. I actually agree with much of what you wrote today although I'm not a fan of your excessive use of CAPS - comes off as angry, but I won't accuse you of having issues like you did me.
In any event, reading your comments today, I have to assume you completely misunderstand Ayn Rand. She was a staunch and uncompromising defender of individual rights. In one of your comments above, you seem to allude to the idea that Ayn Rand endorsed selfishness and that that was wrong. Well, she did, but in the sense that she meant rational self-interest. Assuming you are an American, you live in a country that is based on individual rights - the right to one's own life, one's own liberty, and one's own pursuit of happiness, and by implication, one's own possession of property. Individual rights are the political implication of rational self-interest.
The Progressives came along starting in the late 1800's and said individual rights were selfish and one should dedicate their life to the "common interest". Communism and all the collectivist ideologies (socialism, fascism, progressivism) convey the idea that the state, nation, society, common good or common interest comes first, and the individual life is to serve that purpose. That's why you have all the carnage under collectivist regimes because, ultimately, the individual doesn't matter and must serve the common good. It's either collectivized rights or individual rights. That's what Ayn Rand wrote about and defended individual rights. To suggest otherwise is a distortion of what she wrote.
"Last week, out for a swim, we stepped on a string ray. It was very painful."
As my father taught me, when you go in the water, shuffle your feet. Do NOT walk/step. This way, if there is a sting ray buried in the sand, you'll kick it, not step on it. It'll swim away (and scare the crap out of you!), but it won't 'sting' you.
This has been a public service announcement for those unfamiliar with warm-water bays and seas.
my advice is to walk as little as possible and go horizontal when at knee depth. Swimming is better than walking and safer. preferably also only in water there you can see to the bottom. If you cannot see to the bottom in 3 feet of water don't go.
She put t d s cannabis juice in it. Definitely high.
The Russian revolutin 1917, France 1787, How about the American revolution in 1776?
After the czars abdication? It was an ambication at the end of a gun. They killed me entire family anyway.
Murder rates in other countries are lower? That can be true , but he goes further to say that it's there , dictatorial policies." All " the highest murde rate cities in the united states are democrat run and have been for decades. Corrupt and dictatorial. Don't go Surfing, no restaurants.No church. Put your mask on...... Waiter! where is my high end, high mountain bottle of Argentinian wine? I definitely need a lot more gold than silver. Jim Cramer says so.
I voted for Rare Earths and critical minerals as an investment strategy - and yes, I am aware that the question only relates to a 2026 investment strategy. I do always try to buy on weakness and am currently hard pressed to find a Valuation rationale anywhere. I also understand that I'm particularly inept a catching falling knives.
Therefore, I just extend my horizon ...beyond 2026... beyond the mid-terms. I can afford to wait.
You are correct the Rare Earths for I think one cannot go wrong with them as a long term investment!! Physical Gold and Silver has also been good to me and I will continue to hold them, at least for the time!
In my experience, there is always a "flight to safety" impulse at late market stages. Traditionally, safe investments would be anything from investment in consumer staples or utilities ( yawn..) to the more adventurous investments in Real Estate and precious metals. Bonds, dividend stocks, somewhere in between.
At this point I'm puzzled as to why RE home prices haven't dropped precipitously. I sense we're on the cusp there and am contemplating shorting REITs.
Note the WSJ editorial written by (I think) the provost at Dartmouth, acknowledging the precarious nature of college degrees resulting from cost burden. It all feels to me, as though we're teetering...and some basic realities are soon to be acknowledged in the markets.
I watched a recent financial discussion on the boob tube where the question was housing affordability. A discussion about finding a path for younger people to buy homes while preserving housing valuations for existing homeowners. Reminded me of Winston Churchill's famous quote about "the man standing in a bucket, seeking to lift himself up by tugging on the handle".
The very sort of question that will remain unresolved by our pandering politicians but will surely be resolved by the markets - in due time and in classic terms.
Our country is currently in the eye of the tornado politically, financially and socially. I personally think we as citizens and a country are going to experience tremendous turmoil relative to all my aforementioned areas of concern and it is anyone’s guess as to how we will exit this turmoil. An individual must rely on their own understanding of where we currently are relative this turmoil and make wise decisions as to their individual approach to protect themselves and their families against the potential damage we will experience while sitting in the middle of this triangle of chaos of political, financial and social instability!! There are numerous avenues one can elect to take, hopefully we take the correct avenue!
And I wish you - and all of us - much luck as we work through all of this. We all have different investment horizons, I suspect, even though our end goal is the same.
Enjoy the ride and always keep in mind that you'll "never see a Hearse pulling a U-Haul"
And yours as well Bruce. We wouldn't be here, as very fortunate "first world" beneficiaries, without God's good grace so, we should always be mindful to "pay it forward" as we bounce along together on this big green & blue ball.
I agree totally Abe. Diversification, in particular being a lifelong strategy as is living within one’s means as well as living with a realistic understanding of one simple fact, which is, there will always be those that will cheat and steal.
Here in central western NJ, home sales prices have dropped about 10% from the highs. This has created a larger divergence from list to sales. I think another drop of 10% - 15% is in order. Just my guess.
You are probably correct. But, lets stop and consider how things would be if
this all out "rare earth and IA" campaign simply didn't exist. We could be still living in a world where the average person could (or at least dream) of getting a job equal to their skill level, the worldwide trillion of dollars being wasted on bigger, faster, massive missile development would be at standstill, 57,000 Greenlander's could relax and not worry about being the "Ukraine of tomorrow", and we all could slow down and hopefully stop worrying about the next idea Silicone Valley is going to dream up to "dumb us down" and make our future a nightmare.
I certainly would not disagree or argue against your hypothesis, sad that our world has evolved to such low depths. I am sure God has his plan for his people and humanity!!
Those Greenlanders do have my sympathies. Danes as well. But we’re all on “Trump time” now. A savvy but a bit cranky internationalist who’s taken up the role of everyone’s “daddy”. Frankly, I’d be part of the “Resistance” if I hadn’t already lived for seven decades with the last few as witness to how badly the haughty elititists have so severely mucked everything up. Now, I just reserve judgement. Watch those same elitists run around with their hair on fire and - God forgive me - simply revel in the Kharma.
Rare earths I understand not to be that rare. They are only rare only rare due to the fact that the world has left their refinement over to China which now controls their supply.
True. And this situation regarding the processing bottleneck is being dealt with as we speak. Fortunately, Chinese culture takes the longer view. This means that they know two very important things. The first is that directly confronting the West at this point in time (read Trump) would be a fools errand. The second point is that, given a moderate amount of time - defined as the remainder of Trumps term - their advantage in monopolizing these critical metals, will shortly be gone. The technology (e.g. the “Blackbook”) exists here. It simply needs to be funded, sited and developed. It’s all underway as we speak. Three years until the next Presidential election is tight, but not impossible by any metric. Especially under the current administration.
Might as well. Hope as a strategy is meaningless. I just pray that Trump doesn't bite off more than we all have to chew. So far, so good. Greenlanders now having to contemplate whether it's better to live under our protective shield or to host battles at their front door.
That is an accurate and true statement, the problem being at this moment in time they are indeed rare to us here in the US; however, I feel quite sure there are plans in the making and being placed into active agendas that will correct this issue we currently face. The kicker is how long will it take for our current situation to resolve it’s self? Take care Brother and I enjoy reading your perspective!
I am tired of people who should know better referring to America's as a democracy. We are (or supposed to be) a Republic.
Founding Father James Madison wrote,
“Democracy is the most vile form of government…democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with the personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
BB-just when I thought you were full of shit; there is more room in your body for excrement. FYI, 50% of the United States population voted for trump in November of 2024. We are not on a wood hill trend. So far Trump has closed the border, deporting illegal immigrants, made a more leveling field economically with other countries, He made it well known that many countries in the West and other countries have taken advantage of the Untied States…no more. He will protect our continent from our adversaries. All you do is blow your horn on how good you have it when you move to all the places you own throughout our earth and criticize what this administration is doing. I hope you are now completely full of excrement so that we can discuss intelligently about our economy. AP
Focusing on our developing formerly hidden insurrection
Being reported on two disjoint Narrative Screens: Pro-neo-Confederate and Pro-Fed
The neo-Confederates are well organized, well-funded and apparently well-armed, with the Mpls PD and Minnesota National Guard having joined the party. This episode will probably be seen in retrospect as analogous to the firing on Fort Sumter SC, depending on how the Feds respond to the Walz-Frey-Ellison and national Democrat in-effect declaration of war on the Federal government. "Interesting Times" indeed. I recommend remaining observers rather than members of the cast in either drama and praying for the enchantment of both narratives to be broken and the un-spun truth to emerge. It will not be comforting to either set of players.
James O'Keefe's Trip to Minneapolis Was Insane. Here's What Caught His Attention.
There are so many layers of issues and problems, but I am leaning toward the Bill Bonner statment, when the money goes, everything goes. The biggest issues are freedom and responsibility. If the Federal government had not funded so many poisonous idea driven organizations, funded trans, funded housing, funded state programs, funded this funded that (all in an effort to buy votes and influence and power away from states) then we would not have a non working blue haired idiot protesting, and with stronger states rights, we probably wouldn't have a federal police at work in the states. The transition of power away from states is nearly complete. Thomas Sowell says it well: "much of modern history for the past 30 years (but really 60) has been replacing ideas that work with those that sound good." The result as we see now, is you get individuals who are confused about gender, work, responsibility, government, freedom, etc.
I voted for gold, based upon the "more debasement" theory.
Silver will have more volatility. There are some substitutes for copper in industry, like using aluminum for electric lines. Rare earths will be dependent upon finding sites to develop, and also refining capacity. Bitcoin appears to be a contrarian bet now.
Over the years I have bought some gold and some silver. I bought the silver in small denominations, bags of dimes, quarters and 50 Kennedy half dollars. I bought these as a way of paying for daily things such as food in case of emergencies with the dollar having problems in the future. AP
Kevin, I think you made a wise decision due to the fact that gold will preserve your wealth. Always has; always will. Nothing else is close in serving that function;maybe 6K years proves the point. God's blessings to all.
I voted for silver in the poll (and with my wallet) because it's industrial demand will overshadow it's use and history as a monetary metal. As supplies continue to diminish, the industrial users will pay whatever it takes to supply their factories and avoid shutdowns.
regardless of what sort of currency you have, the result is what counts! can you purchase your freedom with it? freedom to eat drink or be merry in whatever fashion you like, with mongrels or saints, in good times or bad, human exchange will continue always but it may not be a 'civilised' exchange.. if the other party robs you or worse? so the basic ingredient for human exchange is TRUST .. so whom or what do you trust? the paper money is only paper trust that it will buy something of equivalent value for either buyer/seller. So what creates and sustains TRUST ? there is NO trust left in America except at the bottom of the food-chain. Once the TRUST of others to be decent honest or truthful is gone then the real war of all against all commences!
I voted for silver on the poll because it is both an industrial metal and a precious metal. I believe it will do better than gold because the available stocks of silver have been greatly depleted, and demand is about 20% above new mine production plus recycling. And demand is growing, both in the industrial arena, and from investors who realize that they need to have some in their account. We'll see at the end of this year if I am right or not.
Very interesting comments on Nicaragua, Bongo. Don't know how accurate they are coming from you. But the thing that really got me was you equating Trump's election in 2024 to the communist revolution in Russia in 1917. Seems to be a stretch. But I will admit, one good thing came out of that revolution. A women escaped Russia in 1926 and came to America and learned our language (she was born in 1905). Since she was 11 years old, she wanted to be a writer. To be the type of writer she wanted to be, she needed to learn history and philosophy. History she could learn, but she found philosophy to be a wasteland. She realized if she wrote the things she wanted to write in Russia after the revolution, she would be dead within a year. That woman was Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum and took the name Ayn Rand in the US to protect her relatives still in Russia.
Patrick, either you read very little or none of Ayn Rand, or you have a low comprehension level, or a wild imagination, or your college professor totally misled you, because all your "end game" conclusions are totally wrong. After "Atlas Shrugged" was published in 1957, Ayn Rand wrote many non-fiction essays and books spanning thousands of pages stating explicitly her views on issues and government. There is no need to take "her views to logical end game" because she wrote about them explicitly - thousands of pages, which I have read. Except that you may have taken a course on Ayn Rand in college and wrote a paper, nothing else you wrote above is true.
As far as Alan Greenspan, he was an associate of hers in the 1960s and contributed three essays to her non-fiction book, "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" which was published in1967. At some point thereafter, maybe as late as the early 70s, he went his own way and joined the mainstream and became the Alan Greenspan we now know with mixed results. They were never lovers.
In 1966, he lamented how the common man could not get ahead without a gold standard.
Feel better? I did not attack you, just indicated you were clueless when it came to Ayn Rand, which turned out to be true. You tried to set yourself up as an authority because you took a college course and wrote a paper. My comments caused you to come clean. Your insistence that Ayn Rand and Greenspan were lovers with no proof (apparently you think proof is writing things in capital letters) is just another indication of how off base you are about Ayn Rand. I've forgotten more about Ayn Rand than you will ever know and if they had that sort of relationship, I would know it. But that is irrelevant, since it is not her personal life that is of interest to me (although you seem to think your Greenspan comment lends credence to your other distortions in that you know more than you really do). What interests me is her ideas. And it is her ideas that you have distorted beyond all recognition.
...and you call me belligerent!!! You are wildly overreacting to my comments. Your assessment of Ayn Rand was so off base, and since you replied directly to my comment, I felt I needed to respond.
I just read Bill's column today (1/27) and see you have many posts. I actually agree with much of what you wrote today although I'm not a fan of your excessive use of CAPS - comes off as angry, but I won't accuse you of having issues like you did me.
In any event, reading your comments today, I have to assume you completely misunderstand Ayn Rand. She was a staunch and uncompromising defender of individual rights. In one of your comments above, you seem to allude to the idea that Ayn Rand endorsed selfishness and that that was wrong. Well, she did, but in the sense that she meant rational self-interest. Assuming you are an American, you live in a country that is based on individual rights - the right to one's own life, one's own liberty, and one's own pursuit of happiness, and by implication, one's own possession of property. Individual rights are the political implication of rational self-interest.
The Progressives came along starting in the late 1800's and said individual rights were selfish and one should dedicate their life to the "common interest". Communism and all the collectivist ideologies (socialism, fascism, progressivism) convey the idea that the state, nation, society, common good or common interest comes first, and the individual life is to serve that purpose. That's why you have all the carnage under collectivist regimes because, ultimately, the individual doesn't matter and must serve the common good. It's either collectivized rights or individual rights. That's what Ayn Rand wrote about and defended individual rights. To suggest otherwise is a distortion of what she wrote.
"Last week, out for a swim, we stepped on a string ray. It was very painful."
As my father taught me, when you go in the water, shuffle your feet. Do NOT walk/step. This way, if there is a sting ray buried in the sand, you'll kick it, not step on it. It'll swim away (and scare the crap out of you!), but it won't 'sting' you.
This has been a public service announcement for those unfamiliar with warm-water bays and seas.
my advice is to walk as little as possible and go horizontal when at knee depth. Swimming is better than walking and safer. preferably also only in water there you can see to the bottom. If you cannot see to the bottom in 3 feet of water don't go.
Good plan, too. Murky water is bad juju.
Always.
"In the US, worse is where we think things are headed. But not necessarily here in Central America"
Does Bill really believe Nicaragua, with its dying dictator Daniel Ortega and unreported crimes is poised for greater economic gains than the U.S.?
How many of us reading this have a maid?
What did Bill's maid put in his coffee?
What did the maid "putin" his coffee. Nothing. Bongo Bill was/is already an idiot.
...I saw what you did there...
Xi wiz that's clever!
so why you reading and in this thing if you so think? Just to offend the rest of of?
She put t d s cannabis juice in it. Definitely high.
The Russian revolutin 1917, France 1787, How about the American revolution in 1776?
After the czars abdication? It was an ambication at the end of a gun. They killed me entire family anyway.
Murder rates in other countries are lower? That can be true , but he goes further to say that it's there , dictatorial policies." All " the highest murde rate cities in the united states are democrat run and have been for decades. Corrupt and dictatorial. Don't go Surfing, no restaurants.No church. Put your mask on...... Waiter! where is my high end, high mountain bottle of Argentinian wine? I definitely need a lot more gold than silver. Jim Cramer says so.
...the problem making claims of "murder rates" is the reporting.
If the body is at the bottom of the lake, who would know?
Perhaps more importantly; who would want to know...
I voted for Rare Earths and critical minerals as an investment strategy - and yes, I am aware that the question only relates to a 2026 investment strategy. I do always try to buy on weakness and am currently hard pressed to find a Valuation rationale anywhere. I also understand that I'm particularly inept a catching falling knives.
Therefore, I just extend my horizon ...beyond 2026... beyond the mid-terms. I can afford to wait.
You are correct the Rare Earths for I think one cannot go wrong with them as a long term investment!! Physical Gold and Silver has also been good to me and I will continue to hold them, at least for the time!
In my experience, there is always a "flight to safety" impulse at late market stages. Traditionally, safe investments would be anything from investment in consumer staples or utilities ( yawn..) to the more adventurous investments in Real Estate and precious metals. Bonds, dividend stocks, somewhere in between.
At this point I'm puzzled as to why RE home prices haven't dropped precipitously. I sense we're on the cusp there and am contemplating shorting REITs.
Note the WSJ editorial written by (I think) the provost at Dartmouth, acknowledging the precarious nature of college degrees resulting from cost burden. It all feels to me, as though we're teetering...and some basic realities are soon to be acknowledged in the markets.
I watched a recent financial discussion on the boob tube where the question was housing affordability. A discussion about finding a path for younger people to buy homes while preserving housing valuations for existing homeowners. Reminded me of Winston Churchill's famous quote about "the man standing in a bucket, seeking to lift himself up by tugging on the handle".
The very sort of question that will remain unresolved by our pandering politicians but will surely be resolved by the markets - in due time and in classic terms.
Our country is currently in the eye of the tornado politically, financially and socially. I personally think we as citizens and a country are going to experience tremendous turmoil relative to all my aforementioned areas of concern and it is anyone’s guess as to how we will exit this turmoil. An individual must rely on their own understanding of where we currently are relative this turmoil and make wise decisions as to their individual approach to protect themselves and their families against the potential damage we will experience while sitting in the middle of this triangle of chaos of political, financial and social instability!! There are numerous avenues one can elect to take, hopefully we take the correct avenue!
“Mankind is facing a crossroad -
One road leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
And the other to total extinction.-
I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road”
― Woody Allen, Mere Anarchy
“I’m not afraid of dying. I just don’t want to be there when it happens”. Woody Allen.
Everybody want to go to Heaven, nobody want to go right now!
Kenny Chesney
And I wish you - and all of us - much luck as we work through all of this. We all have different investment horizons, I suspect, even though our end goal is the same.
Enjoy the ride and always keep in mind that you'll "never see a Hearse pulling a U-Haul"
May God Bless you and your family!
And yours as well Bruce. We wouldn't be here, as very fortunate "first world" beneficiaries, without God's good grace so, we should always be mindful to "pay it forward" as we bounce along together on this big green & blue ball.
Ed-NO ONE knows what the future holds, economically or politically. Two things you can do to protect yourself:
1. Diversify
2. Have an escape route
I agree totally Abe. Diversification, in particular being a lifelong strategy as is living within one’s means as well as living with a realistic understanding of one simple fact, which is, there will always be those that will cheat and steal.
Here in central western NJ, home sales prices have dropped about 10% from the highs. This has created a larger divergence from list to sales. I think another drop of 10% - 15% is in order. Just my guess.
You are probably correct. But, lets stop and consider how things would be if
this all out "rare earth and IA" campaign simply didn't exist. We could be still living in a world where the average person could (or at least dream) of getting a job equal to their skill level, the worldwide trillion of dollars being wasted on bigger, faster, massive missile development would be at standstill, 57,000 Greenlander's could relax and not worry about being the "Ukraine of tomorrow", and we all could slow down and hopefully stop worrying about the next idea Silicone Valley is going to dream up to "dumb us down" and make our future a nightmare.
Just the thoughts of an 88 year old.
Absolutely, I have been blessed by God relative all facets of my life and I hope and wish the same for all God Loving and God Fearing Humans!
I'm pretty sure greenlanders are not worried about becoming a Ukraine. If I were one, I'd love a U.S passport.
The big bummer would be though that most of the women would leave and move to florida or someplace nice.
I certainly would not disagree or argue against your hypothesis, sad that our world has evolved to such low depths. I am sure God has his plan for his people and humanity!!
Those Greenlanders do have my sympathies. Danes as well. But we’re all on “Trump time” now. A savvy but a bit cranky internationalist who’s taken up the role of everyone’s “daddy”. Frankly, I’d be part of the “Resistance” if I hadn’t already lived for seven decades with the last few as witness to how badly the haughty elititists have so severely mucked everything up. Now, I just reserve judgement. Watch those same elitists run around with their hair on fire and - God forgive me - simply revel in the Kharma.
Rare earths I understand not to be that rare. They are only rare only rare due to the fact that the world has left their refinement over to China which now controls their supply.
True. And this situation regarding the processing bottleneck is being dealt with as we speak. Fortunately, Chinese culture takes the longer view. This means that they know two very important things. The first is that directly confronting the West at this point in time (read Trump) would be a fools errand. The second point is that, given a moderate amount of time - defined as the remainder of Trumps term - their advantage in monopolizing these critical metals, will shortly be gone. The technology (e.g. the “Blackbook”) exists here. It simply needs to be funded, sited and developed. It’s all underway as we speak. Three years until the next Presidential election is tight, but not impossible by any metric. Especially under the current administration.
Might as well. Hope as a strategy is meaningless. I just pray that Trump doesn't bite off more than we all have to chew. So far, so good. Greenlanders now having to contemplate whether it's better to live under our protective shield or to host battles at their front door.
That is an accurate and true statement, the problem being at this moment in time they are indeed rare to us here in the US; however, I feel quite sure there are plans in the making and being placed into active agendas that will correct this issue we currently face. The kicker is how long will it take for our current situation to resolve it’s self? Take care Brother and I enjoy reading your perspective!
I am tired of people who should know better referring to America's as a democracy. We are (or supposed to be) a Republic.
Founding Father James Madison wrote,
“Democracy is the most vile form of government…democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with the personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
so you just made the case that we are in fact ,now a democracy, I wish it were not so, but alas the results speak for themselves
Man, you are so right. We are a Republic.
I think the poll was missing Oil as a choice. That would have been (and will be) my choice to hold value this year.
i already started buying in
Me too. Doing well so far
"Here at Bonner Private Research we maintain our sunny disposition by realizing that however bad things are they can always get worse."
Exactly! Things always look their darkest, their absolute worst...before they go COMPLETELY to Hell! :-)
Finally! I didn't vote with crowd. Time for me to buy more Bitcoin. :-)
BB-just when I thought you were full of shit; there is more room in your body for excrement. FYI, 50% of the United States population voted for trump in November of 2024. We are not on a wood hill trend. So far Trump has closed the border, deporting illegal immigrants, made a more leveling field economically with other countries, He made it well known that many countries in the West and other countries have taken advantage of the Untied States…no more. He will protect our continent from our adversaries. All you do is blow your horn on how good you have it when you move to all the places you own throughout our earth and criticize what this administration is doing. I hope you are now completely full of excrement so that we can discuss intelligently about our economy. AP
Bill is getting real dull with the TDS
Cramer says sell….time to buy
Focusing on our developing formerly hidden insurrection
Being reported on two disjoint Narrative Screens: Pro-neo-Confederate and Pro-Fed
The neo-Confederates are well organized, well-funded and apparently well-armed, with the Mpls PD and Minnesota National Guard having joined the party. This episode will probably be seen in retrospect as analogous to the firing on Fort Sumter SC, depending on how the Feds respond to the Walz-Frey-Ellison and national Democrat in-effect declaration of war on the Federal government. "Interesting Times" indeed. I recommend remaining observers rather than members of the cast in either drama and praying for the enchantment of both narratives to be broken and the un-spun truth to emerge. It will not be comforting to either set of players.
James O'Keefe's Trip to Minneapolis Was Insane. Here's What Caught His Attention.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/01/26/james-okeefes-wild-trip-to-minneapolis-n2670038
Irony: ICE Incident At One Epicenter of Welfare Fraud
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/25/irony-ice-incident-at-one-epicenter-of-welfare-fraud-n3811204
Minnesota: Let's Not Forget The Crisis Before The Crisis
https://hotair.com/mitch_berg/2026/01/26/minnesota-lets-not-forget-the-crisis-before-the-crisis-n3811195
Minneapolis Police Chief: Yes, the Mob Should Rule
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/01/26/minneapolis-police-chief-yes-the-mob-should-rule-n3811206
Sometimes people accidentally say the quiet part out loud.
Wow, that explains a lot, a pity the MSM is biased. Can Trump stop their State funding? Can Waltz et al be arrested for treason?
Needs to be stopped in its tracks...
There are so many layers of issues and problems, but I am leaning toward the Bill Bonner statment, when the money goes, everything goes. The biggest issues are freedom and responsibility. If the Federal government had not funded so many poisonous idea driven organizations, funded trans, funded housing, funded state programs, funded this funded that (all in an effort to buy votes and influence and power away from states) then we would not have a non working blue haired idiot protesting, and with stronger states rights, we probably wouldn't have a federal police at work in the states. The transition of power away from states is nearly complete. Thomas Sowell says it well: "much of modern history for the past 30 years (but really 60) has been replacing ideas that work with those that sound good." The result as we see now, is you get individuals who are confused about gender, work, responsibility, government, freedom, etc.
I voted for gold, based upon the "more debasement" theory.
Silver will have more volatility. There are some substitutes for copper in industry, like using aluminum for electric lines. Rare earths will be dependent upon finding sites to develop, and also refining capacity. Bitcoin appears to be a contrarian bet now.
Sometimes opinionated, but always in doubt.
Kevin:
Over the years I have bought some gold and some silver. I bought the silver in small denominations, bags of dimes, quarters and 50 Kennedy half dollars. I bought these as a way of paying for daily things such as food in case of emergencies with the dollar having problems in the future. AP
Kevin, I think you made a wise decision due to the fact that gold will preserve your wealth. Always has; always will. Nothing else is close in serving that function;maybe 6K years proves the point. God's blessings to all.
I voted for silver in the poll (and with my wallet) because it's industrial demand will overshadow it's use and history as a monetary metal. As supplies continue to diminish, the industrial users will pay whatever it takes to supply their factories and avoid shutdowns.
HODL
regardless of what sort of currency you have, the result is what counts! can you purchase your freedom with it? freedom to eat drink or be merry in whatever fashion you like, with mongrels or saints, in good times or bad, human exchange will continue always but it may not be a 'civilised' exchange.. if the other party robs you or worse? so the basic ingredient for human exchange is TRUST .. so whom or what do you trust? the paper money is only paper trust that it will buy something of equivalent value for either buyer/seller. So what creates and sustains TRUST ? there is NO trust left in America except at the bottom of the food-chain. Once the TRUST of others to be decent honest or truthful is gone then the real war of all against all commences!