Sex, Lies and Ticker Tapes
Two US presidents, the Queen's son and Bill Gates board the Lolita Express...
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Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Youghal, Ireland...
Poor Ghislaine Maxwell. The woman got a 20-year sentence yesterday, for ‘sex trafficking.’
The subject matter is far beyond the scope of our mission here at Bonner Private Research. But we aim to connect the dots and Ms. Maxwell’s trial is one of the most flagrant examples of NOT connecting dots that we’ve ever seen.
Nowhere in the mainstream press did we ever see a reporter, a lawyer, a judge – anyone – making any effort to get to the bottom of it. Where did Jeffrey Epstein get his money? Why was he flying Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew… and many others… back and forth, in his own private jet, to Florida, Europe or ‘Orgy Island,’ his getaway in the Virgin Islands? The plane was a huge Boeing 727. On it, Bill Clinton was a passenger 26 times, according to press reports. Donald Trump was on-board 7 times.
What was Epstein up to? Why would he spend so much time and money befriending – and putting in compromising positions – America’s former and future presidents?
Ms. Maxwell’s father, the British press lord Robert Maxwell, was allegedly a spy for Israel. When he died, apparently falling from his yacht, the ‘Lady Ghislaine,’ he was given a lavish funeral in Jerusalem. Among the many ‘it’s a small world’ dots left unconnected was this gem: reciting the Kaddish at the funeral was none other than the stepfather of America’s current Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken.
Let’s see. Two US presidents. The son of the Queen of England. Bill Gates. The US Secretary of State. Nobody wants to connect those dots! The Epstein Affair was reported as a salacious sex scandal. End of story.
Dot… Dot… Dot…
But there’s always more to the story. Only part of it is ‘fit to print.’ Any news item that interferes with the preferred narrative never makes it to prime time. A story that portrays the Russians as bad guys and the Ukrainians as noble heros, for example, is quickly slapped on the front page. It doesn’t even matter if it is true… or even plausible. But where are the stories about the puppies rescued by Russian troops… the Russian victories… the destroyed Ukrainian tanks? You won’t find them.
So too with a whole range of mainstream themes – climate change, diversity, white supremacy, disease control. News coverage must fit neatly into a tidy narrative. Reports that don’t fit in the box – or the elite don’t want you to hear – are silenced.
The trouble – in the financial world – is that markets won’t shut up. They keep bringing more dots to connect. And the dots can’t be ignored. Forbes:
Dow Plunges Nearly 500 Points, Recession Fears Resume As Consumer Confidence Hits New Low
Stocks fell for a second day in a row on Tuesday as markets failed to build on last week’s strong rebound from 2022 lows, with investors once again selling off shares amid looming recession fears and new economic data showing that consumer confidence plunged to a 16-month low.
The Fed giveth. Mr. Market taketh away. Prices go up. Prices go down. And yesterday brought more signs that the first wave of ‘inflation’ is rolling over. CBSNews:
U.S. gas prices continue to decline as oil costs fall
American motorists are getting a measure of relief at the gas pump, with the cost of filling up sliding for a second consecutive week as oil prices tumble.The national average on Tuesday stood at $4.88 for a gallon of regular, down nearly 9 cents from a week ago, according to AAA. Worries about the rising risk of a global recession has reduced demand for oil, with the price of crude falling to around $107 a barrel from $110 last week, the travel club noted in a news release on Monday.
And here’s Fox News:
During an interview on "Mornings with Maria," Tuesday, market expert Dominick Tavella said that the economy is ‘definitively' slowing down and that consumers are pulling back on spending.
[We used to have] “10 or 15 people bidding on houses,” said Tavella. “Now it's down to two or three people bidding on houses. So it's clearly starting to have an effect in the economy. The economy's definitively slowing down, whether it's the Fed or higher energy prices.”
USA Today adds:
Several companies, including Netflix, Microsoft and PayPal, rolled out layoffs and hiring freezes, anticipating a downturn in the economy.
And the Financial Times warns of a “pan-Atlantic recession:
Economists on both sides of the Atlantic told the Financial Times they had become increasingly pessimistic after the Federal Reserve’s jumbo rate rise to counter soaring inflation, and as concerns mounted over the security of European gas supplies this winter as Russia reduces exports.
Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, said the balance had “tipped” in favour of an economic contraction next year in the US and Europe. “What used to be a rising risk has now turned into the base case.
We may never know what actually happened in the Epstein Affair. But the dots will come together in the financial world, whether we like it or not.
Stay tuned.
Bill Bonner
I liked Bill’s premise of “connecting the dots”. In the Epstein case we’ll likely never be allowed to see enough dots to come up with “The Truth”. But Bill seems to think that markets are truth tellers. Maybe in the extreme long run they are (like when empires collapse), but I’m not so sure it’s going to happen in my lifetime.
Bill’s replacement at his former publisher, Ms Prins, calls what we have now “the Great Distortion”. She’s written books about the collusion among the central banks. I’m starting to think that what’s going on is an attempt at mass manipulation (through the control of money) on an international scale that has no precedent in history. So if someone is relying on honest “market signals” to connect the dots (like maybe in days of old), I’m not sure that’s going to happen anytime soon.
Tom Dyson writes about this “on again- off again” likelihood in US monetary policy. That would be pure distortion rather than an honest market. He also writes about the possibility of the US “bailing out” Japan through the purchase of their bonds. Ha!, that’s a good one. But again, that would be a dishonest market distortion (a deadbeat being bailed out by a bigger deadbeat). And who doesn’t think that buying gold this year at basically the same price as last year (an inflation adjusted 8-10% discount) isn’t a tad suspicious? Paper gold being used to suppress gold prices?
I’m connecting dots, but not the ones I believe our elites would like us to. Massive effort seems to be going into not “spooking the herd”. I don’t think we’ll ever be allowed to see enough honest market “dots” until all the central banks wear out their printers.
We’ll know the masses have caught on when the pitchfork and torches protests are on the steps of the Federal Reserve and not the Supreme Court. However, I’m not holding my breath.
This article alone is worth the $100 fee.
The American public is played like a violin (fiddle) and we seen to enjoy it.