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Don Harrell's avatar

Ivermectin won a Nobel prize in medicine. It was heralded as the "solution". Media and politicians killed hundreds of thousands denying its ability to treat covid. What a country? What would we do without the media? Just sayin'

Don Harrell

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Lucas Kandia's avatar

That is just crazy. I've been researching the Covid-19 issue for a good chunk of lockdown time. I've paused recently, just to concentrate on running a business, but I had no idea that Ivermectin actually had won a Nobel Prize in medicine. Omg.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8383101/

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Robert's avatar

I looked all over for a copy of Win-Win or Lose and finally scored a copy last year from a used book site. Win-Win or Lose should be mandatory reading in Econ 101!! The basic concept is that cooperation beats greed-- it's a great book with a powerful message.

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

The book was available as a free download in pdf format to paid subscribers of Bill's previous subscription service. It's on my computer. Could not find it in the BPR files. Hey Bill, how about making your book available for free download to BPR paid subscribers?

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Dan  Denning's avatar

We posted it in January. We'll have to take it down by the end of the week as Wiley releases it. But here it is.

https://bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com/p/a-modest-theory-of-civilization

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Lucas Kandia's avatar

Fabulous book. Got the hard copy. Will be with me until my last days. The way all governments should be run. Win/Win.

I agree. Mandatory reading for every human, let alone those who take Economics.

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Egypt Solomon's avatar

You forgot Peter Puffer aka Bernanke.

Actually, Vladimir Putin does deserve a peace prize, and he’s finally growing some hair on his chest! Zelensky deserves a “Schmuck” prize, for being a fake CIA robot. 😂

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Diane Williams's avatar

Replying to Egypt Solomon.... I am probably only One of One on here who agrees with you.... Putin does deserve a Peace Prize and Zelensky is a US/ NATO money laundering puppet. One other observation.... as intellectual as this group ofton times appears, I am puzzled by the fact that the actual elephant in the room, the Cabal..One World Order ( what ever you choose to call it) is NEVER mentioned here. Not a peep. Not even a soft whisper. Not even an ambiguous, noncommittal refererence to some unknown, unnamed nefarious entity somewhere out there in the universe.

Why, I wonder, when I read all these horrible reasons given for economic crashes, wars, the depression, recessions, etc when they were ALL neatly wrapped crisis created, planned & carried out by "the unspoken elephant in the room". Yet blame is never placed at their feet. Though a reasonably intelligent, college business major and retired thirty three year entrepreneur ....perhaps I am as deluded ( & crazy) as my family claims.

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Egypt Solomon's avatar

Everybody falls somewhere within the spectrum of insanity! 😂

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin (twice) were nominated for the Peace Prize, and Putin belongs with this crowd, so submit your nomination!

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Egypt Solomon's avatar

So was Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Hussein Obama, nominated for the Peace Prize, and they actually won the price after slaughtering thousands during WWI-WWII and the latter of the three takes the cake for his contributions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan!

Oh wait, they won fare and square, and for a good cause right? 😂🤣😂

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Dorothy's avatar

ES: You have it backwards...Shame on you. Just trying to stir up controversy?

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Egypt Solomon's avatar

You found me out didn’t ya? 😂

Nothing really evolves without controversy, it’s stagnant and boring, a little soup flavor. 😄

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Dorothy's avatar

Naughty naughty!

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thomas Baydala's avatar

I do love your writing style...it does put a smile on my face .......sometimes i really wish it wouldn't.... but truth is truth.

Warmest regards

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G McElroy's avatar

Bill again, such brilliant & timely satire.

Would you consider a Pulitzer Prize for your originality & accuracy. Educating us all while being on the right side of History should count for something.

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Loic's avatar

Hear hear!

Look a tit this way, the Nobel prize is regarded by the masses to be an achievement. We would not be proper contrarians if the masses gave Bill a prize. We’ll (hopefully) be satisfied with Bill and his partners being “right”.

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

I agree with you concerning the Literature, Economics, and Peace "Prizes". IMHO, the Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine prizes still represent solid achievement untainted by politics, but this may change in the future as science and medicine become more political (climate change, gender "affirming" (mutilation) surgery).

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Lucas Kandia's avatar

The Nobel prizes are apparently valuable to the left and the right, when it suits their needs. In 2015 it was worthy of global attention. In 2020, they couldn't shove it under the carpet fast enough. Both liberals and conservatives. Because it didn't fit the narrative. That our bodes could not handle "the virus." That we weren't worthy a shot of Ivermectin but had to wait for the "miracle" cure.

My mom was 93 when she got it in December of 2020. She didn't die from it. But she almost died from dehydration. Her story is here. https://lkandia.blogspot.com

I don't purport to know everything or even a bit about how hydration and kidneys and Covid-19 work. But I sure am learning a hell of a lot along the way. Enjoy.

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Richard Smith's avatar

Thanks PG V, I had read similar,but its good to read again,cause my gut feeling was it was a manufactured viris.

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Richard Smith's avatar

Or was it the intention all along.if the elite want to control the world,what easier way,and make themselves billions

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TnDoc's avatar

"They" awarded the Peace Prize to BHO - O'Bomber - so, no surprises here!

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Bert Uni.'s avatar

Dear Mr Bonner.

Re "I Bernanke"

All true as well as the best tragi-comedy written lately

George Carlin would have been proud of you!

Thank you!

Regards B.Uni.

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Craig Whitfield's avatar

Bernanke's actions just delayed the inevitable. The greatest Economist of the 20th century fully explained/prophesied the inevitable decades ago:

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

-Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises

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Ralph   E. Wood's avatar

So, spot on! Love your review, I am sure there are "some" living without WISDOM that will not get the point. Keep going.

Ralph Wood

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Mark Morgan Ford's avatar

Loved it!

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Kyle Wagner's avatar

It was annoying that they gave him that prize, but not surprising. Bonner and his audience (including me) have a different view of economics and the world than the mainstream.

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Fc's avatar

This is not great. It is brilliant

Mr Bonner on this alone you deserve the Nobel prize.

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Deniss's avatar

This was too good today. Hilarious and yet so true! Thank you Bill for hitting all the marks so consistently!

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Jim Walsh's avatar

You might want to be careful with your use of the word "schmuck"...as I was once told by a person who would know: "Schmuck is Yiddish! (said with disdain) and it means 'prick' and I don't mean penis."

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

I had a friend whose last name was "Schmuck". He pronounced it as "Smoke"! He had the right attitude, laughing with others when his last name was brought up. in conversation

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Brent Blundell's avatar

Well said Bill, he's worse than a twirp!! Makes Bernie Madoff look like an alter boy!

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