Centralized trade policies are a scam. There is no evidence that bureaucrats in Washington can do a better job of making trade deals than independent buyers and sellers with skin in the game.
The biggest illusion being promoted here, is the idea that there’s ever really been “free trade” to begin with. It’s not beneficial to live in a country of “free trade” when your trading partners are not doing the same.
Paul, I don't think that is what ol' Bill is saying at all. The choice was clear - America's only choice was Trump. Harris was going to be a disaster and frankly a non-starter. I sometimes wonder and then shake my head how she ever became a choice - just unbelievable. Now, Bill is - in my opinion - trying to point out the reality of what is transpiring. It is brutal unfortunately - there is no sugar coating it. Trump inherited this mess (although partial a result of Trump 1.0 and the other idiots before him - Obama, Bush, Clinton). As always Governments are about Power and Money. Or Money begats Power. So the beat goes on. And, as the Zen Master says - "Time Will Tell".
You ask, Ol' LSO, how Harris ever became a choice? Two possibilities: either her party thought gender/race was more important than actual qualifications, or they recognized how hard it was going to be to beat Trump and figured they'd put her up in 2024 so in 2028 they could run a more serious candidate and that candidate would not have to run for the nomination against Harris.
Yes, Flier, one of those or something else. Just so sad to see the U.S. government come to this. Clearly the Founders saw a Republic but today it is anything but. Statesmen were to go to Congress and the return home - not make it a career with zero experience in any life like the vast majority of Americans. The career politicians have no idea what being an American is all about.
BB, Blah, Blah Blah. You are certainly earning your title BBB. As suspected, no commentary about the positives. You know, like the lowest Inflation since 2021 came out this AM. Hmm, how the F did that happen, what with all your bullshit bluster, lack of solutions and constant nagging put downs of the man who won the popular vote, every swing state and a landslide electoral college.
You are no better than crazy Maxine Waters, Tim Walz or AOC, just incapable of seeing the positive results of what you call wrestle mania. Keep going with your narrative, the one no one is buying. Keep trying to sell it though, we like when the likes of AOC, Bernie Sanders and you continue to try to spin the narrative back. Sad really. As you sit safe and secure in your mountain hideaway, drinking some of (I must say, truly great) the best wines I have had.
Say Hi to Bernie and AOC for me. Tell them to keep it up, I love the oligarch tour as the fly around in private jets. Good company, why not have them down to the ranch???
Obviously in this data inflation is falling and persistently. I think the primary question is why. My take is that the Biden money printing is wearing off. M2 is rising during this so it appears that the Fed is easing into this possibly trying to balance the wearing off of the free money. It appears to me that the Primary Trend is representing this quite well. Beyond that it is anybody's guess.
Here we go: criticize the messenger for just stating the facts and the truth. If any family, business, state or local government operated as insanely we would either start looking for a way to stop them and get as far away as possible. You call yourself “working stiff”. Does your supervisor or boss act like this and would you defend him or her while viciously attacking a co-worker or client who points out the blatantly obvious craziness?
The entire world—except the cartels, scammers and terrorist government in Israel—is relieved that China, the ONLY country in the world to stand up against this madman, has won the trade war and now leads it. Wake up to a new world of peace, discipline and logic!
How did you know i plan to go to China by the end of the month to enjoy the healthiest food anywhere, massive infrastructure that PRIMARILY benefits the individual, meet with friends whose income has increased 6 times since i met them 20 years ago, visit new tourist attractions overflowing with tourists and money (since Chinese aren’t permitted to spend in the US anymore), see children walking overjoyed as they go to the public school their parents pay tuition for, be able to walk anywhere at anytime of the night or day, get instant, excellent, inexpensive medical care (although this may have changed), never have to avoid (or even see) a homeless camp. You’re welcome to come. You won’t believe what you’re experiencing.
Try writing dissenting comments on a chat board like this in China and see what happens to you. There won't be any joy in your life when your Chinese comrades finish with you.
That’s true and one of the few areas where the US supersedes China—and in this case considerably. Both are moving in opposite directions, however. Now that China is clearly in first place I wouldn’t be surprised to see the government and CCP move toward more open written and spoken expression. The end of the country’s inferiority complex can be declared “ENDED”. They now feel much more secure and that is very bad news for Trump and other bigoted Americans—a few of whom are members of BB’s brilliant and deep and humorous writings.
There's a lot to unpack there Ed. First, it's quite the stretch to proclaim that "China is clearly in first place . . ." They have some strategic advantages for now, and they only have those because we've had leaders that were asleep at the switch. With the Ukrainian rare minerals deal done and Greenland on the horizon, Xi's asymmetrical advantage isn't going to last.
It's amusing how you and your cohorts in the Marxist/Leftist/Democrat Party want to pin labels on Trump and his supporters. The only way one could come to the conclusion that Trump is bigoted is to ignore context, change what he actually said, or cherry pick part of a statement leaving out the entire statement. You know, exactly like 100 percent of the American corporate media do each and every day.
As for BB's "brilliant and humorous writings", don't bet that BB is actually authoring them. Though sometimes witty and funny, in the last year or two (I've been here since about a week after he launched BPR) his writing has changed dramatically, and I submit that it has not changed for the better.
Thank you for saving me the Time and Effort, Brother Dave. What a load of indoctrinated, backwards narrative garbage we just got from Ed's last post. Ed fails to mention that the VAST majority of the Chinese "gains" in the past 20 years came from straight-up THEFT of IP or at the DIRECT EXPENSE of other Countries Industrial Base (looking at you, America.) People like Ed don't see a thing wrong with those facts and will die on that hill with their head up Xi's fat ass. I'm guessing Ed has and maybe still does spend the majority of his time in the USA hanging out/teaching/beating drums on one of our "Institutions of Higher Learning" - all while wearing the obligatory Coward Mask. What a load of CRAP from a well-spoken, kumbaya moron.
No Ed, this isn't the ignorant, ugly American talking. It is the words of an American who has personal ties to China and spends many minutes EVERYDAY keeping up with what is really going on there. Guaranteed you get your "news" from sources I wouldn't believe with a ten-foot pole, mainly because they have been proven LIARS over many years.
ProTip, Junior: Whenever you go to China on Business or Pleasure, you see EXACTLY and PRECISELY what the communist government ALLOWS you to see - and that is IT. No more, and they'll try to keep you managed into seeing the minimum possible and speaking to the minimum "men on the street." More FACTS based on someone who knows the Country as a foreign insider, not an awestruck, Marxist American tourist, stumbling around gawking like a rube and being continually laughed at behind his back by the natives. Your type is widespread in the Visitor Class to China, and if you weren't so stupid to spend copious amounts of money on things they can and will take away from you in the blink of an eye (not trinkets, I mean things like a fallow factory for instance - if they would ever let you buy one), they likely wouldn't keep letting you come back.
Keep trying to sell your oh-so-reasonable-sounding, "enlightened" and corrupt view of that Country as much as you wish - you'll not get many takers here. We're too smart, educated, Historically-aware and informed to buy the trash that the Useful Idiots slurp up with a straw, whether it comes from you or the Media Ministry of the CCP...
I'd be interested in knowing the names of your sources. It's hard to imagine that you have been there recently. It would be helpful if you tossed out the name-calling and would stick with whatever actual facts you have.
Well this “Communist” dictatorship (and it IS the latter) doesn’t allow corporations to run the government. It stole the American free enterprise system from US in 1979 and used it to elevate 1,400,000,000 people out of dirt poor poverty and catapulted 800,000,000 of them into the middle class (home, education, travel and car if wanted, because public transportation is so easy, cheap, and available). BTW, they can buy a car costing $50-80,000 here for $15-20k and no longer are forced to breathe polluted air. Also, Chinese “Communism” clearly favors small businesses over corporations, unlike my hometown 100% bleeding-heart Democrat that outlawed 10,000 small businesses and handed their income and property value over to 4 Wall Street corporations in total disregard for the Constitution. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the small businesses have no “standing” even to sue and endorse the $5000/day fines the bleeding-heart Dems steal!!!
Not in Nevada if you want anything that the Wall Street casino-hotels disagree with. But what happened in China has never happened before so quickly and, of course, involved the number of people.
China has closed hundreds if not thousands of factories every year for the two decades I’ve been going there. And guess how they do it? The owner places a “closed” sign in the morning and the workers go home and start looking for another job or deciding if they want to open their own business or home factory. No lawsuits, no union bosses, no unions—just 600% real wage increases since 2002 with zero union dues. But they do get to watch bosses who may have cheated them and other CCP officials hauled off to jail: 70,000 last year alone. Name me the GOP leader ever prosecuted, much less jailed or executed, by the GOP party itself for corruption!
Well if you're going back next week, be prepared to see orders of magnitude more factories closed or otherwise idle. And corruption, poor working conditions or pissed-off employees has NOTHING to do with it. It is 100% driven and caused by Donald J. Trump LEVELING the Field of Trade with China - which should have been done 20 years ago...
How will he level the playing field when the businesses and workers are exposed to such erratic behavior by corrupt politicians? What business can operate when the costs of goods one day is 100, a week later 500 then a month later 200? Everyone on here, myself included (3 times in fact) voted for him this time. The uncomfortable fact is, however, that he has no plan or behavior patter that will lead to peace or prosperity or, now, world leadership. That's the reality. But, for the first time in the brief history of instantaneous communications worldwide, the planet has a leader that both preaches and practices peace.
Yeah, I’ve been to Communist China. Grim. Mind-numbing communist sameness. Grim looks on faces. Heads down. No eye contact. Armed soldiers on street corners.
And a giant mural of Moa Tse Tung, or Zedong, or who gives a sh1t dong, the largest mass murderer in history, plastered on the sides of buildings. You can have it.
On second thought, totalitarian dictatorship, cults of personality (ie the idolization of BarryO) is right in you Leftists’ wheelhouses. No WONDER, Mr U, you can’t wait get back there.
You should move there. I’m sure you would do well under a totalitarian government. You wouldn’t have to do any thinking; the communist government will do it for you.
How then is it that the subjects of that evil government are now (after only 45 years of exposure to US free enterprise) exceeding or catching up to us in virtually every measure of health, innovation, education, etc? While US wages haven’t increased one penny since 1972 (53 years) while Chinese have increased in 46 years by approximately 1000% if not more?
You are proving yourself to be a Surface-Level Thinker, Ed. You turn your brain off at Appearances, and are not at all choosy about whom is feeding those Appearances to you. Just like most Leftardes. So I'll ask you to step out of your bubble - How then IS IT that what you wrote is at least half-true? Please address the Chines-related sections of your posts and be SPECIFIC as to how China was able to reach such rarified heights. I'll get you started with a hint to begin thinking in the right directions for your study - It has nothing to do with "Miracles" or superior "populations", and they also didn't get there on their own inherent Merit.
That's right. China's leaders in 1979 "stole" the concept of free enterprise from us. They weren't burdened by corporations with access to endless money and political influence and have been pretty consistent in living, doing business, and creating. They are far ahead of us and are basically open to others copying them. Take high speed railroads for example: both countries started talking about them 30 years ago, but today the US is yet to carry one passenger while trains in China carry billions. They don't even gloat. In fact, they would be glad to construct HSTs in America. I know that for a fact. The CRCC told me about during Chinese New Year three years ago. We know-it-all, name-calling Americans would NEVER accept such an "humiliation", however. So we spend billions and get nothing in return.
That´s truely gross. Well enjoy, if you fancy 750 Million CCTV´s, Social Credit Systems and tightest grip on Media, besides a lot more. (Minorities, Child and Slave labor, enourmous pollution of rivers, seas, landsites etc.)
In Japan, for example you can walk the most remote corner in Tokyo at night and don´t have to be afraid. Other than China, JP is a high trust society.
For the healthiest food you need to resort to Vietnam, not to China.
China is ANYTHING but a high-trust, safe Society. Like so much else, the Reality is not allowed to escape to the West.
Research Robberies, Assaults and Murders in the major cities of the Country. The information you are able to find will shock you due to the level of current indoctrination on the subject - then realize that what you HAVE been able to find out likely represents less than 20% of the actual conditions, aka Reality.
But don't tell Ed. They keep smiling and bowing at him as they take his money....
PS - One of DOZENS of Data Points that show the Truth about "Safe" China:
Yes Petra, we would all love to live in such a happy, delusional world as Mr Ed. The obvious lack of “peace, discipline and logic” in the leftist world proves how mentally unstable these people are. Poor Mr Ed belongs in an institution as most of the left does. Truly the party of mental illness as our dear fellow reader so willing proves.
Leftist? Tens of millions of new small and large businesses? More new patents than the USA? Hundreds of new colleges all competing? 5500 ships? 27,000,000 cars produced per year? No property or sales taxes and income taxes for a few only? None of my several hundred acquaintances or friends has ever complained about spending time filing out a tax return. Leftist? Please explain.
Very strange Ed, most Chinese I know here are extremely anti-Communist🤔 you could be a cheerleader for Xi Ping and evidently hate America 🤔. I don’t know where you are getting your information from, but China has been going through a very rough patch these past few years and it’s getting much more challenging everyday. I’m sure Chinese people of your status don’t feel the pain of the middle class, but things are quickly unwinding and the collapse is coming. Hopefully you will be there when TSHTF…then your story will be more interesting 🤔
Xi has millions of them here now. Plus hundreds of thousands of communist students taking up space in our universities and sending any information they can back home. We have a couple of thousand students in China, but they are under constant surveillance. Crazy Eddies ideology is a bit off…
Peter Navarro (Trump's advisor on tariffs) and Gordon Chang started writing books on the impending collapse of China more than 25 years ago. China has done nothing but boom since. You are as allergic to facts as these two nut canes are.
Ed: Terrorist government in Israel ?. WOW. Do you have your head in the sand. You forgot the real terrorist organization Hamas. The ‘madman’ is doing things different because obviously what other administrations have done for the last 50 years has NOT worked. AP
Netanyahu created Hamas to do his will against the people living in the 125 square mile Gaza concentration camp who, for some reason too strange for you to understand, were resentful for being thrown out of their homes in Haifa, Tel Aviv, etc. and herded into the desert like animals. Their every move has been controlled by the Israeli government for three generations. The relatively few believers in Jewish rights during the 30's and 40's (not Churchill and not Roosevelt) would have been overjoyed had Hitler's captives in any of his concentration camps revolted and slaughtered any German they could find. Eventually the world will come around to the same belief about Gaza and the West Bank--and it probably won't be good for those who I've always considered the smartest humans on earth.
You are so full of shit. Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist Groups have been around longer than Netanyahu has been in power. If I remember written in the Bible, the land of Israel was given to Abraham and the Israelites by GOD. You should move to China; you wouldn’t be very happy there. All the bullshit you come up with about how wonderful China is, there is one thing it can’t give you Freedom. AP
...how would your small family business operate if the procured goods were no longer available or restricted by a foreign source? Who would you depend upon to stay in business, our gov't or theirs?
A 1.4 billion customer base that is getting richer every day. My own experience is also that it’s easier to set up a business in China than in my hometown, but I may have just been lucky.
Not really. We believed hysterical, self-interested politicians and companies who lied to us. They claimed their masks and fake medicines were more valuable than our own immune systems, our jobs, our children’s futures, our entire society. Our political system (China’s too in this case) prescribed “medicines” worse than the disease. It would be difficult to foresee this degree of hysteria (not even WWII or polio, both of which I remember, created such panic). Well, maybe the completely predictable reaction of people who have no idea of what they comment on this medium could serve as a an equally bad example of how ignorance and self-interest might produce hysteria or, at least, counterproductive ideas and actions. What do Bill’s readers gain by denying the demostrable truth that an actual peace-loving, war-hating (and still, despite the racist name-calling, American -admiring nation) is now calling the shots on the only globe available to any of us? Like some mindless wolf-pack they attack him even for stating the most modest of truths—after gaining such incredib
Not sure if I feel offended or complimented, Ed. So thanks either way!
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PS - You are telling straight-up LIES to make our most dangerous adversary in the world look reasonable, desirable and good. I, for one, will not let that go unchallenged when I know the Truth and can see the complete inaccuracies in what you post so eloquently. Bullshit in a Velvet Glove...
Stand on the street corner and criticize Xi, then, if you’re able, get back through broken teeth to let us know how lucky you are and how much better communist China is than the US. Ironically, it’d be Trump that would have to secure your release - like he has done for 48 (and counting) Americans that were being held against their will in other countries.
You overlook the basics of Life (like Freedom and Liberty) while wallowing in dreams that aren’t gonna happen and intentions that won’t ever come to fruition. Blind to Reality – just like most leftardes …
Wrong. Actual population numbers in 2024, based on mandatory Vaccination numbers compiled by dissident Physicians put China's current population between 400-600 million. There are an estimated 1 Billion people "missing" over the past 5 years. Facts, Ed - they are pesky things and you have to look for them some times.
EVERYTHING you think you know about China in the West is a LIE...
It's not "name calling." It's relating to your type on your own level. If you want to play with pigs, you must get down in the mud - it's crude, but accurate.
Facts, you say? Start at 8:30 for some population Facts:
@Tom, a last one. Gold-Silver-Ratio. That recent briefing with Rick Rule had exüöored this point specifically. I lean much towards Mr. Rules opinion that there is no such connection, other than pure coincidence. Both Minerals are much different in there use case and truely I don´t see any interconnection between them.
...there was an interconnection in the 19th century when both were primarily used as money, however in todays' new AI Quantum Robotic Solarized mega machine world, I think that ratio has likely changed...
Same method as yesterday. 400% !!! If the underlying figure is miniscule, so what.
Today, the poor american citizen has to pay 300 % of the tariffs, his chinese counterpart has to.
Yes, when the Iphone at approx. 40 USD leaves China (just 10 are the whole cost for assembling at the sweatshop) it now costs 52 on arrival in the US. Means, in the logic of the author that the poor american Citizen has now to pay 2,080 USD instead of 1,600......
Or so.
Try it with Barbie. Some 50 Cents FOB in China. Makes 65 Cents in US
Bill, what would we do without your continued Trump "enlightenments"?? Can't wait for your equal coverge of the Democratic leaders (Aoc, Gavin. Bernie and others}.
Trump creates a boogieman then "makes a deal" to remove it... and in the process disrupts status quo, but did I miss Bill defending the return of U.S. Sovreign manufacturing, or did Bill?
Just a thought - the U.S. deficit for Fiscal 2025 is expected to be at least US$2.5T. Did ya'll here that - US$2.5T. And, close to 1/2 belongs to the current Administration. The "big beautiful bill" wending its way through Congress continues the deficit spending with no cuts insight. Does anyone have an issue with this beside ol' Bill? Just asking...........don't shoot the messenger.
I get it old man! But the trillions that will be spent will have much higher returns compared to the trillions the last administration wasted with an actual negative return. Like I said, give it a year and let’s see where we stand next year at this time. I’ll happily admit being wrong and finish my new abode in Argentina 😊
The Trump Doctrine, a twisted sermon for a dying empire, where the prophets are billionaires and the faithful pay tariffs like tithes, all while the stock market teeters like a televangelist on his fifth glass of sacramental wine.
Picture it: a man who builds walls with the same cheap bluster that Ezekiel 13:10 warned about, flimsy as a politician’s promise, painted over with the whitewash of ‘winning’ while the cracks of economic rot creep underneath. “Peace, peace!” he proclaims, while the nation’s arteries harden with debt and the bond market wheezes like a coal miner with a lifetime of black lung.
It’s a gospel for the chronically deluded, a Revelation remix where the Four Horsemen ride Harley-Davidsons draped in American flags, and the trumpets sound like the screech of a tax audit. The Dow Jones clings to its 200-day moving average like a televangelist clutching his mistress, shameful, trembling, but too stubborn to let go. And all the while, the people cheer, chanting his name, convinced that every press conference is a parable, every trade deal a covenant, and every crash just a “correction” on the road to the promised land.
And yet, like 1 Thessalonians 5:3 whispers from the ancient void, “While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly.” Or in Trumpian terms: tariffs, tweets, and trade wars launched faster than you can say “Art of the Deal.” The man who convinced a nation to bet their 401(k)s on a geopolitical knife fight, where the only strategy is to throw more punches and pray the other guy drops first. Like a Gladiator Gauntlet headliner with no regard for plot development or intellectual depth, he treats diplomacy like a steel cage match, all chest, thumping bravado with the subtlety of a foghorn. So, buckle up, America. Because just like a classic Trump deal, it’s not legally binding, it leaves everyone confused, and it’ll likely end with someone else picking up the tab.
That’s like asking for a less apocalyptic flavor of Revelations. But alas, there’s no off-ramp on the highway to Armageddon. We’re all just stubborn little lemmings in a long, slow march to the eschaton, clutching our smartphones like digital rosaries, swiping left on reality while the sky buckles under the weight of our collective hubris. Even the Four Horsemen, that ragged crew of pestilence, war, famine, and death, probably scroll the headlines these days, muttering, “Man, these guys are really speeding things up for us.” Somewhere between 1 Thessalonians 5:3 and a Black Friday doorbuster stampede, we managed to hit the gas on our own doom, and the check engine light has been on since the Cold War.
But hey, why wake up in the morning? Because there’s a certain charm in sipping coffee while the trumpets warm up for their final set, watching the stock market ride its 200-day moving average like a televangelist clinging to his last yacht. Maybe it’s because we secretly enjoy the chaos, like moths to a dumpster fire, or maybe it’s the sheer thrill of counting down the days until the sky rips open like a cheap piñata stuffed with vengeance and overdue cosmic receipts. Either way, the only viable alternative is to laugh maniacally into the void, because the apocalypse might be the only thing in human history running ahead of schedule. So, go ahead, hit snooze one more time, there’s always time for one last sip of denial before the divine margin call.
Hmmmmm, kind of a non-answer answer and very surprising coming from you.
Your recent embrace of the darkside is still worthy to be enjoyed by the masses. I, for one, am digging the cutesy side of the thinly-veiled derogatory ramblings, particularly because you give it with so much more flair and pizazz than our host. Keep up the good work. While I may not agree, I do look forward to your latests, and scan the board looking for you first. :) All the best, brother...
PS - Hopefully, you don't count me among the group hitting Snooze. My history of posts hopefully says the exact opposite....
if He picked up the tab, it’s only because He knew we couldn’t afford the bill. We’ve been running a cosmic bar tab for 2,000 years, guzzling sin like it’s half-price at happy hour, and now the bartender is polishing his shotgun, eyeing the exit, and wondering if He should just lock the doors and torch the place for the insurance. You think the cross was the final swipe of the divine credit card? Nah, that was just the down payment. The interest has been compounding ever since, and we’re the ones left counting pennies while the Four Horsemen rev their engines in the parking lot, itching for the green light.
“Just end it now”
That’s like asking the devil to cut the power before the final guitar solo, before the amps blow and the flames lick the ceiling. No, we’re in this for the full set, every screeching note of chaos, every broken string of shattered faith, until the walls crack and the roof collapses like a politician’s moral compass. So, pour another glass, my friend, because the universe isn’t just picking up the tab, it’s flipping the whole damn table, and we’re the ones left scrambling for the exits, choking on smoke and asking if anyone bothered to leave a tip.
So, the average American is gonna pay 30% more than the average Chinese? No chance we just buy more from other sources, or maybe the Chinese have to eat some of the increase? Amazing
BB never ONCE considers that the products in question just might end-up being Made in America. Y'know, the stated goal of all of this from the start - that is consistently ignored by Half-Truth Bonner...
I read a very interesting conjecture today. The primary influence on the stock market is psychology. I certainly wouldn't want to argue against this. Hence one of the primary difficulties with the Primary Trend is just this i.e. big swings around the downward trend.
Just wandering... where were these rants the last four years? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall this pattern of constant criticism coming from Bill back then.
Please Mr or Mrs ghostwriter, enough of your BS! This nonsense is getting very tired. Those of us who have been with BPR for over five years know who Bill Bonner is and whoever is writing these blogs now cannot be him. Anyone with a quarter brain knows how demented and corrupt the leftist party of America is. Sure, Trump once supported the leftist party because he’s a businessman, and if your goal is making money, most times you’re settling your moral’s for money. Not that Trump had many, as most NY liberals don’t. Or for Trump, didn’t. I believe, like Bill, Trump has changed with age. He is still 1000% more active than 99% of people his age, and fighting for Americans survival after decades of leftist treason. Bill on the other hand is enjoying the wealth he created and living his life as most men do. I would hope that Bill would start reading this nonsense his ghostwriter is spewing, and focus on helping our fellow dear readers navigate the coming disaster BPR has been forecasting these last six year's.
At least the one side is not committed to murdering babies, Is flailing about for the release of criminals. Is the lying about their representatives... And discussing putting Biden and a wheelchair immediately if he wins,
abandoning troops under fire. Abandoning the world's largest air force base. What's nearly a billion dollars of equipment for enemy terrorists to use.
What else... Is having gay sex in the halls of congress on video. A senator.
Ial dick pics. Blue dresses and numerous dead opponents. I could go on, but I'm tired of typing. How does all this jive woth the gospels?
Yes Bill, we can list hundreds of other insane issues the democrats/globalist/communist created in America,
But the bottom line is these are some of the most demented, destructive and dysfunctional people on earth and their mental illnesses need to be addressed or they will continue their destructive actions forever. Our government created these monsters, and they can also end the insane policies that created them.
Hard to understand how the Government - which is them - can make that happen. If history is any guide, the Government must blow=up and that is where the largest credit bubble known to man comes in. There is no way to force them out unless that happens. Unfortunate.......absolutely but reality is a bitch!. Could be wrong but I don't think so. As always, one man's opinion........
Exactly brother! It’s very evident in their actions, because 99% of them are either mentally unstable, absolutely ignorant or just plain good old fashioned evil. Their words are meaningless as you already know.
I would much hesitate to post such a bold recommendation. Oil, much like Uranium has very wide spread extraction costs. So what doesn´t bother KSA might well kill Venezuela or specifically in US the whole shale oil sector.
Platinum had a high - so my perception - when the rise of the clean diesel engine (Cat) started. That was a true dysruptive moment in the sense that an entirely new sector was established out of nowhere. I don´t see any such sustainable use case around the corner.
"It’s a spectacle on the level of Wrestle Mania, emotionally, though lacking its intellectual depth."
Worth tuning in today for this alone!
The biggest illusion being promoted here, is the idea that there’s ever really been “free trade” to begin with. It’s not beneficial to live in a country of “free trade” when your trading partners are not doing the same.
Stop with the Reality already - you’re upsetting the Narrative…
So, according to recent essays, not only am I a dumb-bunny for supporting Mr. Trump, I'm also a sucker. Nice. Best always. PM
Paul, I don't think that is what ol' Bill is saying at all. The choice was clear - America's only choice was Trump. Harris was going to be a disaster and frankly a non-starter. I sometimes wonder and then shake my head how she ever became a choice - just unbelievable. Now, Bill is - in my opinion - trying to point out the reality of what is transpiring. It is brutal unfortunately - there is no sugar coating it. Trump inherited this mess (although partial a result of Trump 1.0 and the other idiots before him - Obama, Bush, Clinton). As always Governments are about Power and Money. Or Money begats Power. So the beat goes on. And, as the Zen Master says - "Time Will Tell".
You ask, Ol' LSO, how Harris ever became a choice? Two possibilities: either her party thought gender/race was more important than actual qualifications, or they recognized how hard it was going to be to beat Trump and figured they'd put her up in 2024 so in 2028 they could run a more serious candidate and that candidate would not have to run for the nomination against Harris.
Yes, Flier, one of those or something else. Just so sad to see the U.S. government come to this. Clearly the Founders saw a Republic but today it is anything but. Statesmen were to go to Congress and the return home - not make it a career with zero experience in any life like the vast majority of Americans. The career politicians have no idea what being an American is all about.
Probably BOTH Flyer's reasons, plus a third, fourth and fifth that are not worth my time to try and discern.
Let the Crazy and Stupid be Crazy and Stupid all on their own - I'll just point and laugh like the rest of the Country....
Agree 100%!
BB, Blah, Blah Blah. You are certainly earning your title BBB. As suspected, no commentary about the positives. You know, like the lowest Inflation since 2021 came out this AM. Hmm, how the F did that happen, what with all your bullshit bluster, lack of solutions and constant nagging put downs of the man who won the popular vote, every swing state and a landslide electoral college.
You are no better than crazy Maxine Waters, Tim Walz or AOC, just incapable of seeing the positive results of what you call wrestle mania. Keep going with your narrative, the one no one is buying. Keep trying to sell it though, we like when the likes of AOC, Bernie Sanders and you continue to try to spin the narrative back. Sad really. As you sit safe and secure in your mountain hideaway, drinking some of (I must say, truly great) the best wines I have had.
Say Hi to Bernie and AOC for me. Tell them to keep it up, I love the oligarch tour as the fly around in private jets. Good company, why not have them down to the ranch???
Didn’t you read the article?
Some guy nobody ever heard of commented on a website or in a magazine nobody reads that Inflation MIGHT be on the rise.
If it’s good enough for Bill Bonner, it should be good enough for you…
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/despite-mainstream-panic-us-consumer-price-inflation-tumbles-lowest-over-4-years
Obviously in this data inflation is falling and persistently. I think the primary question is why. My take is that the Biden money printing is wearing off. M2 is rising during this so it appears that the Fed is easing into this possibly trying to balance the wearing off of the free money. It appears to me that the Primary Trend is representing this quite well. Beyond that it is anybody's guess.
Here we go: criticize the messenger for just stating the facts and the truth. If any family, business, state or local government operated as insanely we would either start looking for a way to stop them and get as far away as possible. You call yourself “working stiff”. Does your supervisor or boss act like this and would you defend him or her while viciously attacking a co-worker or client who points out the blatantly obvious craziness?
The entire world—except the cartels, scammers and terrorist government in Israel—is relieved that China, the ONLY country in the world to stand up against this madman, has won the trade war and now leads it. Wake up to a new world of peace, discipline and logic!
"Wake up to a new world of peace, discipline and logic!"
Interesting, dear fellow reader. Where is that world? Would like to make a trip there.
How did you know i plan to go to China by the end of the month to enjoy the healthiest food anywhere, massive infrastructure that PRIMARILY benefits the individual, meet with friends whose income has increased 6 times since i met them 20 years ago, visit new tourist attractions overflowing with tourists and money (since Chinese aren’t permitted to spend in the US anymore), see children walking overjoyed as they go to the public school their parents pay tuition for, be able to walk anywhere at anytime of the night or day, get instant, excellent, inexpensive medical care (although this may have changed), never have to avoid (or even see) a homeless camp. You’re welcome to come. You won’t believe what you’re experiencing.
Try writing dissenting comments on a chat board like this in China and see what happens to you. There won't be any joy in your life when your Chinese comrades finish with you.
That’s true and one of the few areas where the US supersedes China—and in this case considerably. Both are moving in opposite directions, however. Now that China is clearly in first place I wouldn’t be surprised to see the government and CCP move toward more open written and spoken expression. The end of the country’s inferiority complex can be declared “ENDED”. They now feel much more secure and that is very bad news for Trump and other bigoted Americans—a few of whom are members of BB’s brilliant and deep and humorous writings.
There's a lot to unpack there Ed. First, it's quite the stretch to proclaim that "China is clearly in first place . . ." They have some strategic advantages for now, and they only have those because we've had leaders that were asleep at the switch. With the Ukrainian rare minerals deal done and Greenland on the horizon, Xi's asymmetrical advantage isn't going to last.
It's amusing how you and your cohorts in the Marxist/Leftist/Democrat Party want to pin labels on Trump and his supporters. The only way one could come to the conclusion that Trump is bigoted is to ignore context, change what he actually said, or cherry pick part of a statement leaving out the entire statement. You know, exactly like 100 percent of the American corporate media do each and every day.
As for BB's "brilliant and humorous writings", don't bet that BB is actually authoring them. Though sometimes witty and funny, in the last year or two (I've been here since about a week after he launched BPR) his writing has changed dramatically, and I submit that it has not changed for the better.
Thank you for saving me the Time and Effort, Brother Dave. What a load of indoctrinated, backwards narrative garbage we just got from Ed's last post. Ed fails to mention that the VAST majority of the Chinese "gains" in the past 20 years came from straight-up THEFT of IP or at the DIRECT EXPENSE of other Countries Industrial Base (looking at you, America.) People like Ed don't see a thing wrong with those facts and will die on that hill with their head up Xi's fat ass. I'm guessing Ed has and maybe still does spend the majority of his time in the USA hanging out/teaching/beating drums on one of our "Institutions of Higher Learning" - all while wearing the obligatory Coward Mask. What a load of CRAP from a well-spoken, kumbaya moron.
No Ed, this isn't the ignorant, ugly American talking. It is the words of an American who has personal ties to China and spends many minutes EVERYDAY keeping up with what is really going on there. Guaranteed you get your "news" from sources I wouldn't believe with a ten-foot pole, mainly because they have been proven LIARS over many years.
ProTip, Junior: Whenever you go to China on Business or Pleasure, you see EXACTLY and PRECISELY what the communist government ALLOWS you to see - and that is IT. No more, and they'll try to keep you managed into seeing the minimum possible and speaking to the minimum "men on the street." More FACTS based on someone who knows the Country as a foreign insider, not an awestruck, Marxist American tourist, stumbling around gawking like a rube and being continually laughed at behind his back by the natives. Your type is widespread in the Visitor Class to China, and if you weren't so stupid to spend copious amounts of money on things they can and will take away from you in the blink of an eye (not trinkets, I mean things like a fallow factory for instance - if they would ever let you buy one), they likely wouldn't keep letting you come back.
Keep trying to sell your oh-so-reasonable-sounding, "enlightened" and corrupt view of that Country as much as you wish - you'll not get many takers here. We're too smart, educated, Historically-aware and informed to buy the trash that the Useful Idiots slurp up with a straw, whether it comes from you or the Media Ministry of the CCP...
I'd be interested in knowing the names of your sources. It's hard to imagine that you have been there recently. It would be helpful if you tossed out the name-calling and would stick with whatever actual facts you have.
Just like the man productive or homeless... We just don't say it. It's like seeing a day transgressor in Kabul.
Aren't communist dictatorships wonderful!! Thanks so much for educating us freedom loving hicks, Ed.
Well this “Communist” dictatorship (and it IS the latter) doesn’t allow corporations to run the government. It stole the American free enterprise system from US in 1979 and used it to elevate 1,400,000,000 people out of dirt poor poverty and catapulted 800,000,000 of them into the middle class (home, education, travel and car if wanted, because public transportation is so easy, cheap, and available). BTW, they can buy a car costing $50-80,000 here for $15-20k and no longer are forced to breathe polluted air. Also, Chinese “Communism” clearly favors small businesses over corporations, unlike my hometown 100% bleeding-heart Democrat that outlawed 10,000 small businesses and handed their income and property value over to 4 Wall Street corporations in total disregard for the Constitution. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the small businesses have no “standing” even to sue and endorse the $5000/day fines the bleeding-heart Dems steal!!!
Sounds like heaven.
Not in Nevada if you want anything that the Wall Street casino-hotels disagree with. But what happened in China has never happened before so quickly and, of course, involved the number of people.
Go ahead and pick up a defunct, empty factory while you’re there. There’s so many of them right now they’re available on the cheap…
China has closed hundreds if not thousands of factories every year for the two decades I’ve been going there. And guess how they do it? The owner places a “closed” sign in the morning and the workers go home and start looking for another job or deciding if they want to open their own business or home factory. No lawsuits, no union bosses, no unions—just 600% real wage increases since 2002 with zero union dues. But they do get to watch bosses who may have cheated them and other CCP officials hauled off to jail: 70,000 last year alone. Name me the GOP leader ever prosecuted, much less jailed or executed, by the GOP party itself for corruption!
Well if you're going back next week, be prepared to see orders of magnitude more factories closed or otherwise idle. And corruption, poor working conditions or pissed-off employees has NOTHING to do with it. It is 100% driven and caused by Donald J. Trump LEVELING the Field of Trade with China - which should have been done 20 years ago...
How will he level the playing field when the businesses and workers are exposed to such erratic behavior by corrupt politicians? What business can operate when the costs of goods one day is 100, a week later 500 then a month later 200? Everyone on here, myself included (3 times in fact) voted for him this time. The uncomfortable fact is, however, that he has no plan or behavior patter that will lead to peace or prosperity or, now, world leadership. That's the reality. But, for the first time in the brief history of instantaneous communications worldwide, the planet has a leader that both preaches and practices peace.
Yeah, I’ve been to Communist China. Grim. Mind-numbing communist sameness. Grim looks on faces. Heads down. No eye contact. Armed soldiers on street corners.
And a giant mural of Moa Tse Tung, or Zedong, or who gives a sh1t dong, the largest mass murderer in history, plastered on the sides of buildings. You can have it.
On second thought, totalitarian dictatorship, cults of personality (ie the idolization of BarryO) is right in you Leftists’ wheelhouses. No WONDER, Mr U, you can’t wait get back there.
You should move there. I’m sure you would do well under a totalitarian government. You wouldn’t have to do any thinking; the communist government will do it for you.
How then is it that the subjects of that evil government are now (after only 45 years of exposure to US free enterprise) exceeding or catching up to us in virtually every measure of health, innovation, education, etc? While US wages haven’t increased one penny since 1972 (53 years) while Chinese have increased in 46 years by approximately 1000% if not more?
You are proving yourself to be a Surface-Level Thinker, Ed. You turn your brain off at Appearances, and are not at all choosy about whom is feeding those Appearances to you. Just like most Leftardes. So I'll ask you to step out of your bubble - How then IS IT that what you wrote is at least half-true? Please address the Chines-related sections of your posts and be SPECIFIC as to how China was able to reach such rarified heights. I'll get you started with a hint to begin thinking in the right directions for your study - It has nothing to do with "Miracles" or superior "populations", and they also didn't get there on their own inherent Merit.
Go.
I'll wait....
That's right. China's leaders in 1979 "stole" the concept of free enterprise from us. They weren't burdened by corporations with access to endless money and political influence and have been pretty consistent in living, doing business, and creating. They are far ahead of us and are basically open to others copying them. Take high speed railroads for example: both countries started talking about them 30 years ago, but today the US is yet to carry one passenger while trains in China carry billions. They don't even gloat. In fact, they would be glad to construct HSTs in America. I know that for a fact. The CRCC told me about during Chinese New Year three years ago. We know-it-all, name-calling Americans would NEVER accept such an "humiliation", however. So we spend billions and get nothing in return.
That´s truely gross. Well enjoy, if you fancy 750 Million CCTV´s, Social Credit Systems and tightest grip on Media, besides a lot more. (Minorities, Child and Slave labor, enourmous pollution of rivers, seas, landsites etc.)
In Japan, for example you can walk the most remote corner in Tokyo at night and don´t have to be afraid. Other than China, JP is a high trust society.
For the healthiest food you need to resort to Vietnam, not to China.
All advise is free of charge ;-))
China is ANYTHING but a high-trust, safe Society. Like so much else, the Reality is not allowed to escape to the West.
Research Robberies, Assaults and Murders in the major cities of the Country. The information you are able to find will shock you due to the level of current indoctrination on the subject - then realize that what you HAVE been able to find out likely represents less than 20% of the actual conditions, aka Reality.
But don't tell Ed. They keep smiling and bowing at him as they take his money....
PS - One of DOZENS of Data Points that show the Truth about "Safe" China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ig-IhR-jdw
Yes Petra, we would all love to live in such a happy, delusional world as Mr Ed. The obvious lack of “peace, discipline and logic” in the leftist world proves how mentally unstable these people are. Poor Mr Ed belongs in an institution as most of the left does. Truly the party of mental illness as our dear fellow reader so willing proves.
Leftist? Tens of millions of new small and large businesses? More new patents than the USA? Hundreds of new colleges all competing? 5500 ships? 27,000,000 cars produced per year? No property or sales taxes and income taxes for a few only? None of my several hundred acquaintances or friends has ever complained about spending time filing out a tax return. Leftist? Please explain.
Very strange Ed, most Chinese I know here are extremely anti-Communist🤔 you could be a cheerleader for Xi Ping and evidently hate America 🤔. I don’t know where you are getting your information from, but China has been going through a very rough patch these past few years and it’s getting much more challenging everyday. I’m sure Chinese people of your status don’t feel the pain of the middle class, but things are quickly unwinding and the collapse is coming. Hopefully you will be there when TSHTF…then your story will be more interesting 🤔
He'll never be allowed back out to tell it. Guaranteed....
Xi has millions of them here now. Plus hundreds of thousands of communist students taking up space in our universities and sending any information they can back home. We have a couple of thousand students in China, but they are under constant surveillance. Crazy Eddies ideology is a bit off…
Sure he will, he’s a communist
Peter Navarro (Trump's advisor on tariffs) and Gordon Chang started writing books on the impending collapse of China more than 25 years ago. China has done nothing but boom since. You are as allergic to facts as these two nut canes are.
Ed: Terrorist government in Israel ?. WOW. Do you have your head in the sand. You forgot the real terrorist organization Hamas. The ‘madman’ is doing things different because obviously what other administrations have done for the last 50 years has NOT worked. AP
Netanyahu created Hamas to do his will against the people living in the 125 square mile Gaza concentration camp who, for some reason too strange for you to understand, were resentful for being thrown out of their homes in Haifa, Tel Aviv, etc. and herded into the desert like animals. Their every move has been controlled by the Israeli government for three generations. The relatively few believers in Jewish rights during the 30's and 40's (not Churchill and not Roosevelt) would have been overjoyed had Hitler's captives in any of his concentration camps revolted and slaughtered any German they could find. Eventually the world will come around to the same belief about Gaza and the West Bank--and it probably won't be good for those who I've always considered the smartest humans on earth.
Ed
You are so full of shit. Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist Groups have been around longer than Netanyahu has been in power. If I remember written in the Bible, the land of Israel was given to Abraham and the Israelites by GOD. You should move to China; you wouldn’t be very happy there. All the bullshit you come up with about how wonderful China is, there is one thing it can’t give you Freedom. AP
...how would your small family business operate if the procured goods were no longer available or restricted by a foreign source? Who would you depend upon to stay in business, our gov't or theirs?
A 1.4 billion customer base that is getting richer every day. My own experience is also that it’s easier to set up a business in China than in my hometown, but I may have just been lucky.
I reckon you missed the part of the pandemic in which the U.S. was short supplies and medicines because it relied upon foreign manufacturers?
You state setting up a business in China is easier than in your hometown; it should not be... you are confirming Trump's actions are necessary...
Not really. We believed hysterical, self-interested politicians and companies who lied to us. They claimed their masks and fake medicines were more valuable than our own immune systems, our jobs, our children’s futures, our entire society. Our political system (China’s too in this case) prescribed “medicines” worse than the disease. It would be difficult to foresee this degree of hysteria (not even WWII or polio, both of which I remember, created such panic). Well, maybe the completely predictable reaction of people who have no idea of what they comment on this medium could serve as a an equally bad example of how ignorance and self-interest might produce hysteria or, at least, counterproductive ideas and actions. What do Bill’s readers gain by denying the demostrable truth that an actual peace-loving, war-hating (and still, despite the racist name-calling, American -admiring nation) is now calling the shots on the only globe available to any of us? Like some mindless wolf-pack they attack him even for stating the most modest of truths—after gaining such incredib
after gaining such incredible insights from him for decades!
Not sure if I feel offended or complimented, Ed. So thanks either way!
;)
PS - You are telling straight-up LIES to make our most dangerous adversary in the world look reasonable, desirable and good. I, for one, will not let that go unchallenged when I know the Truth and can see the complete inaccuracies in what you post so eloquently. Bullshit in a Velvet Glove...
260% debt to GDP now rather complicates things for this tremendous growth engine.
It sure does.
Stand on the street corner and criticize Xi, then, if you’re able, get back through broken teeth to let us know how lucky you are and how much better communist China is than the US. Ironically, it’d be Trump that would have to secure your release - like he has done for 48 (and counting) Americans that were being held against their will in other countries.
You overlook the basics of Life (like Freedom and Liberty) while wallowing in dreams that aren’t gonna happen and intentions that won’t ever come to fruition. Blind to Reality – just like most leftardes …
That is true no environmental regulations. Is no blue tape. And steal any illectual property that you like. Just make.
Sure the party gets paid.
Wrong. Actual population numbers in 2024, based on mandatory Vaccination numbers compiled by dissident Physicians put China's current population between 400-600 million. There are an estimated 1 Billion people "missing" over the past 5 years. Facts, Ed - they are pesky things and you have to look for them some times.
EVERYTHING you think you know about China in the West is a LIE...
Now, that's funny! But all your name-calling is based on truth? Why name-call. Why not just state the facts?
It's not "name calling." It's relating to your type on your own level. If you want to play with pigs, you must get down in the mud - it's crude, but accurate.
Facts, you say? Start at 8:30 for some population Facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM-R4HkWgPY
@Tom, a last one. Gold-Silver-Ratio. That recent briefing with Rick Rule had exüöored this point specifically. I lean much towards Mr. Rules opinion that there is no such connection, other than pure coincidence. Both Minerals are much different in there use case and truely I don´t see any interconnection between them.
...there was an interconnection in the 19th century when both were primarily used as money, however in todays' new AI Quantum Robotic Solarized mega machine world, I think that ratio has likely changed...
So do I.
That was my assessment of Rule's position.
Same method as yesterday. 400% !!! If the underlying figure is miniscule, so what.
Today, the poor american citizen has to pay 300 % of the tariffs, his chinese counterpart has to.
Yes, when the Iphone at approx. 40 USD leaves China (just 10 are the whole cost for assembling at the sweatshop) it now costs 52 on arrival in the US. Means, in the logic of the author that the poor american Citizen has now to pay 2,080 USD instead of 1,600......
Or so.
Try it with Barbie. Some 50 Cents FOB in China. Makes 65 Cents in US
Or Nike. 2,50 to 3,50 FOB and so on.
Bill, what would we do without your continued Trump "enlightenments"?? Can't wait for your equal coverge of the Democratic leaders (Aoc, Gavin. Bernie and others}.
Trump creates a boogieman then "makes a deal" to remove it... and in the process disrupts status quo, but did I miss Bill defending the return of U.S. Sovreign manufacturing, or did Bill?
Quiet, you. Your eyes are lying…
Just a thought - the U.S. deficit for Fiscal 2025 is expected to be at least US$2.5T. Did ya'll here that - US$2.5T. And, close to 1/2 belongs to the current Administration. The "big beautiful bill" wending its way through Congress continues the deficit spending with no cuts insight. Does anyone have an issue with this beside ol' Bill? Just asking...........don't shoot the messenger.
I get it old man! But the trillions that will be spent will have much higher returns compared to the trillions the last administration wasted with an actual negative return. Like I said, give it a year and let’s see where we stand next year at this time. I’ll happily admit being wrong and finish my new abode in Argentina 😊
The Trump Doctrine, a twisted sermon for a dying empire, where the prophets are billionaires and the faithful pay tariffs like tithes, all while the stock market teeters like a televangelist on his fifth glass of sacramental wine.
Picture it: a man who builds walls with the same cheap bluster that Ezekiel 13:10 warned about, flimsy as a politician’s promise, painted over with the whitewash of ‘winning’ while the cracks of economic rot creep underneath. “Peace, peace!” he proclaims, while the nation’s arteries harden with debt and the bond market wheezes like a coal miner with a lifetime of black lung.
It’s a gospel for the chronically deluded, a Revelation remix where the Four Horsemen ride Harley-Davidsons draped in American flags, and the trumpets sound like the screech of a tax audit. The Dow Jones clings to its 200-day moving average like a televangelist clutching his mistress, shameful, trembling, but too stubborn to let go. And all the while, the people cheer, chanting his name, convinced that every press conference is a parable, every trade deal a covenant, and every crash just a “correction” on the road to the promised land.
And yet, like 1 Thessalonians 5:3 whispers from the ancient void, “While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly.” Or in Trumpian terms: tariffs, tweets, and trade wars launched faster than you can say “Art of the Deal.” The man who convinced a nation to bet their 401(k)s on a geopolitical knife fight, where the only strategy is to throw more punches and pray the other guy drops first. Like a Gladiator Gauntlet headliner with no regard for plot development or intellectual depth, he treats diplomacy like a steel cage match, all chest, thumping bravado with the subtlety of a foghorn. So, buckle up, America. Because just like a classic Trump deal, it’s not legally binding, it leaves everyone confused, and it’ll likely end with someone else picking up the tab.
Let's hear your viable alternative, Mr. Gypt.....
An alternative Star-Man?
That’s like asking for a less apocalyptic flavor of Revelations. But alas, there’s no off-ramp on the highway to Armageddon. We’re all just stubborn little lemmings in a long, slow march to the eschaton, clutching our smartphones like digital rosaries, swiping left on reality while the sky buckles under the weight of our collective hubris. Even the Four Horsemen, that ragged crew of pestilence, war, famine, and death, probably scroll the headlines these days, muttering, “Man, these guys are really speeding things up for us.” Somewhere between 1 Thessalonians 5:3 and a Black Friday doorbuster stampede, we managed to hit the gas on our own doom, and the check engine light has been on since the Cold War.
But hey, why wake up in the morning? Because there’s a certain charm in sipping coffee while the trumpets warm up for their final set, watching the stock market ride its 200-day moving average like a televangelist clinging to his last yacht. Maybe it’s because we secretly enjoy the chaos, like moths to a dumpster fire, or maybe it’s the sheer thrill of counting down the days until the sky rips open like a cheap piñata stuffed with vengeance and overdue cosmic receipts. Either way, the only viable alternative is to laugh maniacally into the void, because the apocalypse might be the only thing in human history running ahead of schedule. So, go ahead, hit snooze one more time, there’s always time for one last sip of denial before the divine margin call.
Hmmmmm, kind of a non-answer answer and very surprising coming from you.
Your recent embrace of the darkside is still worthy to be enjoyed by the masses. I, for one, am digging the cutesy side of the thinly-veiled derogatory ramblings, particularly because you give it with so much more flair and pizazz than our host. Keep up the good work. While I may not agree, I do look forward to your latests, and scan the board looking for you first. :) All the best, brother...
PS - Hopefully, you don't count me among the group hitting Snooze. My history of posts hopefully says the exact opposite....
Face Jesus! I thought
He picked up a tab. Just end it now.
Face Jesus Billy Boy!?!
Sweet Meat Pies!
if He picked up the tab, it’s only because He knew we couldn’t afford the bill. We’ve been running a cosmic bar tab for 2,000 years, guzzling sin like it’s half-price at happy hour, and now the bartender is polishing his shotgun, eyeing the exit, and wondering if He should just lock the doors and torch the place for the insurance. You think the cross was the final swipe of the divine credit card? Nah, that was just the down payment. The interest has been compounding ever since, and we’re the ones left counting pennies while the Four Horsemen rev their engines in the parking lot, itching for the green light.
“Just end it now”
That’s like asking the devil to cut the power before the final guitar solo, before the amps blow and the flames lick the ceiling. No, we’re in this for the full set, every screeching note of chaos, every broken string of shattered faith, until the walls crack and the roof collapses like a politician’s moral compass. So, pour another glass, my friend, because the universe isn’t just picking up the tab, it’s flipping the whole damn table, and we’re the ones left scrambling for the exits, choking on smoke and asking if anyone bothered to leave a tip.
😃🔱🐦⬛🤩
So, the average American is gonna pay 30% more than the average Chinese? No chance we just buy more from other sources, or maybe the Chinese have to eat some of the increase? Amazing
BB never ONCE considers that the products in question just might end-up being Made in America. Y'know, the stated goal of all of this from the start - that is consistently ignored by Half-Truth Bonner...
I read a very interesting conjecture today. The primary influence on the stock market is psychology. I certainly wouldn't want to argue against this. Hence one of the primary difficulties with the Primary Trend is just this i.e. big swings around the downward trend.
Just wandering... where were these rants the last four years? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall this pattern of constant criticism coming from Bill back then.
Hey Bill - write an article tomorrow telling us how BAD this is. Go on - I wanna marvel at the contortions.
What a freaking clown show this service is becoming. Talk about WrestleMania…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-treasury-shocks-second-biggest-budget-surplus-history-thanks-record-tariff-revenues
Please Mr or Mrs ghostwriter, enough of your BS! This nonsense is getting very tired. Those of us who have been with BPR for over five years know who Bill Bonner is and whoever is writing these blogs now cannot be him. Anyone with a quarter brain knows how demented and corrupt the leftist party of America is. Sure, Trump once supported the leftist party because he’s a businessman, and if your goal is making money, most times you’re settling your moral’s for money. Not that Trump had many, as most NY liberals don’t. Or for Trump, didn’t. I believe, like Bill, Trump has changed with age. He is still 1000% more active than 99% of people his age, and fighting for Americans survival after decades of leftist treason. Bill on the other hand is enjoying the wealth he created and living his life as most men do. I would hope that Bill would start reading this nonsense his ghostwriter is spewing, and focus on helping our fellow dear readers navigate the coming disaster BPR has been forecasting these last six year's.
Steve, did I understand you correctly - the left is corrupt and the right is morale and just? Is that how you see it? Really?
At least the one side is not committed to murdering babies, Is flailing about for the release of criminals. Is the lying about their representatives... And discussing putting Biden and a wheelchair immediately if he wins,
abandoning troops under fire. Abandoning the world's largest air force base. What's nearly a billion dollars of equipment for enemy terrorists to use.
What else... Is having gay sex in the halls of congress on video. A senator.
Ial dick pics. Blue dresses and numerous dead opponents. I could go on, but I'm tired of typing. How does all this jive woth the gospels?
Yes Bill, we can list hundreds of other insane issues the democrats/globalist/communist created in America,
But the bottom line is these are some of the most demented, destructive and dysfunctional people on earth and their mental illnesses need to be addressed or they will continue their destructive actions forever. Our government created these monsters, and they can also end the insane policies that created them.
Hard to understand how the Government - which is them - can make that happen. If history is any guide, the Government must blow=up and that is where the largest credit bubble known to man comes in. There is no way to force them out unless that happens. Unfortunate.......absolutely but reality is a bitch!. Could be wrong but I don't think so. As always, one man's opinion........
Hard to see (after Bill and Steve's posts) how you could still equivocate the two sides.
Yes Ol' Man - they both suck, but they are Far, FAR from being the same...
Exactly brother! It’s very evident in their actions, because 99% of them are either mentally unstable, absolutely ignorant or just plain good old fashioned evil. Their words are meaningless as you already know.
@Tom,
I would much hesitate to post such a bold recommendation. Oil, much like Uranium has very wide spread extraction costs. So what doesn´t bother KSA might well kill Venezuela or specifically in US the whole shale oil sector.
Platinum had a high - so my perception - when the rise of the clean diesel engine (Cat) started. That was a true dysruptive moment in the sense that an entirely new sector was established out of nowhere. I don´t see any such sustainable use case around the corner.