Trump and a large part of the American public still believe that tariffs are paid by China or France or whomever, but they are paid by us; the consumer. I’m a manufacturer; and have been for 40 years, I have sourced everything I can in the US. Some things I cannot, because they aren’t made here mostly due to onerous environmental laws on foundries. Now I pay an 85% tariff to import parts. Tell me how that helps.
I appreciate your comment, but to compound the issue; I found out today that Schlumberger and Baker Hughes both have 100% exemptions from the tariff to import the exact same product that I pay 86% tariff on. I have also acquired new sales in Libya, Iraq, and now Venezuela. The tariffs are BS and only applied to those who don't have a lobbyist.
I have on transportation companies for over 45 years.I helped ship factories all over the world. Where were you then? Where were?\nYou and when foundries were almost made illegal.Based on e p a regulations. Many didn't care if they saw more profit in Mexico at first then China,Thailand Vietnam. Footwear manufacturing went to Brazil USA be damned.
You'll get no tears from me. I was witness to the millions losing their jobs. Labor is not the issue , it's regulations across the board. It was done on purpose , so it would be a good excuse for manufacturing to leave
Well, I was building a business in the US. Providing machining, assembly, installation, and trucking jobs in the US. Sorry I don't have a billion dollars to build a foundry in the US. I agree that we need manufacturing jobs here, and have been providing them for years. But when I find out that my competitors; two of the largest companies in the world, are exempt from the tariffs; I have to call bullshit on his plan.
About Canada, those on both ends of that country have hated Americans for many decades now. We are loaded with them living and working right here in the good old USA, but Americans are not welcome to work up there. Nope, can't work in Canada unless you work for an American company that does business in Canada.
I live in Seattle and have been to B.C. numerous times over the decades. In the 70's-80's it was a kind, welcoming place. However, my first glimpse of change was in the 90's, when the dollar was strong against the loony. I was surprised when I got a couple cold responses while dining and shopping there. I never got that before. In 2004, I attended a three day conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, put together by none other than Bill Bonner. It was the first time I saw many people I am familiar with today, including Rick Rule. The hotel staff was great, but when you got out and about the city, again, it was a mixture. Fast forward to 2012, and as I said here before, with my Washington state license plate, I wasn't sure I was going to get out of there without being in an accident. The animosity was real. I haven't been back since.
In 2015 I was receiving physical therapy. On one visit, the P.T. was telling me that her brother is married to a Canadian and lives in Victoria, B.C., she visits him at least once a year. When there she attends his church. Twice the minister's message was a hate-filled diatribe against America. The second time this happened she asked her brother, "Does he give this message because he knows I am visiting from America?" Her brother said, "No, that's his message all the time." She never went back.
Today, 25% of Canada's population are foreign born. A very wealthy flood came in from Hong Kong starting in the late 70's. They have opened their arms wide in the past twenty years to Chinese. Any one familiar with Canada should know that it is no surprise they are siding with China today, fully rejecting America. The only good part of Canada today is Alberta.
Mark Carney is a powerful, extreme, globalist, not someone to mess around with. He is full steam ahead for the one world government and loves it when anti-Americans like the Clintons, Bidens (when he could think), that black Marxist Muslim Obama were president. They are all in on it. But so are plenty of politicians like the Minnesota gangster idiots, every single democrat (except maybe Fetterman), and three-fourths of the republicans. They are all together in the same poisonous stew to bring down America.
They all hate Trump, including BB, because Trump is fighting against this. Europeans are socialists. They have nursed off the teets of us Americans for 75 years. Personally, I am sick of those snobs. We defend them with the blood of our citizens, and our money, and they turn their nose up. Let them defend themselves.
Read the book of Revelations people. We are in the last days.
Does anyone else find it ironic that at the same time the Trump administration rails against the lack of democracy in Venezuela and Iran they also threaten to takeover of Greenland without giving the Greenlanders a say in the matter? I've seen polls indicating that 85% of them do not want to become a colony of the US.
Could you please explain how my opposition to taking over Greenland is a symptom of TDS? So you have no problem with Donnie's desire to take control of Greenland in spite of the fact only 6% of Greenlanders wish to become a colony of the US?
I would consider more a victim of BSDS. BS Derangement Syndrome. Both teams preach their "democracy" BS when it comes to regime change in countries that don't agree with them. I wish they would just shut up about democracy and be honest. For instance say "We don't give a rat's ass about democracy. We are invading Libya, Iraq, Syria, Panama, Venezuela, Greenland, etc because it suits our economic interests".
Sorry. I had a question below. Are you comparing Trump with Zog the Dragon from a kids book? Zog was ad determined to get a gold star at school as Donnie is determined to get his peace prize.
Self determination is an American value as long as you agree to cooperate with the US government. For example, the US was fine supporting Somoza in Nicaragua - FDR even said he may be an SOB but he's our SOB - but once the Sandinistas threw him out we decided it was our time to determine who should govern that country.
I grew up reading the Sunday funnies Comics Bonner is the current Sunday funnies except hes not funny Hes dour negative and WRONG Read Trumps speech at Davos Ignore Bonner Read Bonner for comics if you want Wasting money on subscription Im long Gold Im short Bonner
True. I read Bongo Bill just to see what he's going to say. How he can distort and exaggerate the negative. It is comical, but dark comedy from a TDS-damaged mind.
"What was he doing before? We don't know." That's YOUR comment, BiBo!! Did you NOT BOTHER to recognize the multiple ARMED CONFLICTS around the world which your-favorite-guy-to-hate settled ??? Were you purposely ignoring Trump's success WORLD-WIDE? [Answer: "yes".]
I must be mistaken about the conflicts which were reported as "settled" and claimed by Trump. If I erroneously made that claim, don't hesitate to explain the outcomes you believe. Thanks. RRN
Harold! That's good stuff! Maybe Trump soon found out the Ukraine problems initiated by the Biden Crew - I can remember Joe Biden claiming he was taking Ukraine down if they didn't fire somebody or pay somebody $1mil before the plane departed for USA. Trump must not have realized how much $$$ was missing after the Biden's sucked it up! R
The video claims that “10 countries representing roughly 45% of the world’s population have ditched the U.S. dollar.”
On population alone, that’s directionally true. Add up the usual BRICS-heavy list and you land in the low-40% range.
But population is not the issue.
Those countries do not share a unified payment system that replaces the dollar-based SWIFT framework.
What they actually have are parallel and partial arrangements:
China has CIPS.
Russia has SPFS.
Others use bilateral local-currency settlement or pilot projects like mBridge.
These systems reduce reliance on the dollar at the margins. They do not replace SWIFT. They do not interoperate as a single network.
No bloc representing 45% of humanity has “ditched” the dollar in any comprehensive or operational sense. That leap from “population share” to “functional dollar exit” is how YouTube thumbnails are made. It is not how payment systems work.
Feels like Bill has borrowed a page from Donny’s rhetorical playbook lately.
Gold and Silver are not going up because the US$ is SO STRONG!
As a strong currency nation you issue Long Term, low interest Treasury Bonds to cover your 38 trillion dollar debt.
Have you checked to see how our Treasury is currently financing any roll-over of our 38 trillion dollar debt? Limit your search to T Bills. It will save you time.
Oh Harold, I'm not saying it isn't so, we all know it is a mess. I would like to read accurate prose, not supposition, not regurgitated YouTube crap - I agree with your premise. This is suppose to be a financial board, but it is drowning in politics.
and it is always blah, blah, blah bitching and moaning, never offering an alternative solution. must be nice to be sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, then tell everyone else everything that is being done is bullshit.
Plus the guy doesn't even live in America. He reads too much main stream media and amazingly doesn't question it despite the fact that it has been negative for America's culture, destroying society, while stealing from us and promoting socialism like Clintons, Biden and Obama. They are using the "fairness doctrine" which they personally describe and define to get elected. Bill, now that he has billions and lives in other countries, apparently loves socialism. He might change his tune when the socialists run out of other people's money to confiscate and come after him. My guess is he thinks he will be spared for supporting socialism.
Bill has given you and all the politicos in the US an alternative. The fact that no one has the morals, the balls, the foresight, or the good sense to do any of it, is another matter.
Mr. Kandia, I have read that article by Bill, and it is all just virtue signaling to make himself feel good or try to convince himself what a noble and brave leader he would be. But in the article, he doesn't tell the reader what the impact would be over a few years, economically and politically. This is because such enormous, rapid reductions would cause a jobs depression, wiping out the GOP in Congress, and VP Vance would be creamed in 2028 by a radical leftist. Then the Democrats would immediately reverse all the spending cuts, pass a mass amnesty, and open the southern border as wide as possible.
This kind of virtue signaling is similar to what these leftist white females are doing in Minneapolis and other U.S. metro areas. They live cocooned/sheltered lives in safe suburbs with good jobs, good schools, and low or no crime. Yet they love all the little black and brown people in the violent, drug-addicted, welfare-dependent U.S. third-world cities---as long as these people don't dare move into their neighborhoods. Just try to place public housing in their suburban neighborhoods, then hear them scream---very loudly.
So there are pie-in-the-sky, virtue-signaling alternative solutions, then there are realistic, real-world alternative solutions. So when conservatives like me and commenter "working stiff" request alternative solutions, we are talking about realistic, real-world ones.
This morning, I received an email from a person who runs a business in the USA. And abroad. I happened to be a member. Here is what the email headline read: "I Run a $100M American Company, I’m Diversifying Away From the U.S."
During the email, this person, who primarily runs a meditation and self help site, started talking about:
The U.S. dollar fell 11% in the first half of 2025, its worst drop since 1973.
Major banks, including Morgan Stanley, forecast another 10–20% decline through 2027.
Foreign ownership of U.S. Treasuries has dropped from 50% to 33%.
Central banks are buying gold at the fastest pace in modern history.
Gold rose 55% in 2025, crossing $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever.
The long and short of it, he said this:
"I can no longer afford to have my financial life overly concentrated in America."
The crux? "The Dollar Was Never Just Currency (the currency signal). The U.S. dollar isn’t just money. It’s a trust infrastructure. It works because the world assumes:
Policy changes will be gradual
Alliances will be respected
Rules won’t change overnight
When that trust weakens, capital doesn’t run screaming. It quietly reallocates."
And started to tell his clients about gold. Physical. Institutional. Now if this guy, who NORMALLY runs a self help site, is not only talking about how to fix your psyche, and runs a $100 M company is "diversifying," LOUDLY, how many more are doing it QUIETLY? I surmise, a lot.
More Trump bullshit without alternatives, and it is always blah, blah, blah bitching and moaning, never offering a solution. Must be nice to be sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, traveling the world then tell everyone else everything that is being done is bullshit. So Billy, WWBD? I mean, other than bitching.....and knocking down everyone that is not a (D). oye...
Lots of alternatives. None which befit a wanna-be king, mind you. But yes, alternatives abound. BTW, in December 2022, it was the Democrats that were running the show, when our dear Billy wrote this piece. Because everyone was on his case about his bitching, but no solutions.
Here they are, again, for those long term memory challenged. And new subscribers, like yourself. Enjoy!
Sorry I couldn't being myself to read the whole thing when the first couple sentences tell the entire story. Tired of his shit. BUT is there anyone in the world who doesn't know the US has spent too much money but why is every politician on board with doing exactly that? May I suggest that it is because the first president to stop the spending knows the collapse will start. That's exactly why no matter which politician you ask to spend less, you get the same response, crickets.
That's exactly why Trump isn't stopping the spending either. But he is addressing it through firing federal workers, some 10,000 stated, in his speech today. That's why he has caught Somalian's stealing 15 B. It's why he has exposed USAID for what it is and the department of Education. It is all the just common sense stuff that exposes the corruption, which apparently Bill likes. That's also the reason why Bill never gives approaches to this problem. He doesn't have any. Got to give him credit for at least seeing the problem, just no solutions. Probably can't stand it that someone is trying to solve the problems.
“Common sense” is doing a lot of work in your comment.
Everyone agrees the U.S. has spent too much for too long. That is not controversial. What is controversial is pretending that pointing at corruption, firing staff, or uncovering waste solves a structural problem driven by trillion-dollar deficits, demographics, entitlements, defense commitments, and interest costs.
Cutting waste is necessary. It is not sufficient.
You can remove thousands of workers and still run deficits measured in trillions. You can expose bad programs and still leave the largest line items untouched. The math does not care about slogans.
If “common sense” means anything here, it means confronting the parts politicians usually avoid:
Which major programs shrink.
Which promises get rewritten.
Which taxes change.
Which overseas commitments get reduced.
Which constituencies get angry.
That is why every administration struggles. Not because collapse is inevitable, but because the real fixes are politically radioactive.
Diagnosing rot is easy. Prioritizing cuts is the hard part.
So yes, by all means audit everything.
But until someone shows a ranked, credible plan that bends the *top line* of spending and deficits, “common sense” is just another word for frustration rather than a governing strategy.
wanna be king, keep following the MSM, that got us so very far.... One Question, if that were true, why did he leave office after the rigged election (don't even tell me the cadaver got more votes (80MM) than obummer), if your MSM bs claim had truth we would have seen it then, but the MSM has you following the pendulum ...left and right left and right...thats it now keep you eye firmly on it....
Facts are stubborn little creatures. They do not care who anchors the evening news.
And if the claim is that *𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚* is brainwashed except the person typing in all caps… well, history suggests that is usually the moment to check one’s own mirrors.
I like President Trump. He’s efficient. Most empires take centuries to collapse, he’s doing it with updates.
He tariffs wine because someone said no. “I’ll tariff your wine until you love me”, that’s not foreign policy, that’s dating advice from a prison therapist.
He bombs countries like he’s swatting flies that look at him funny. He threatens bankers like a guy yelling at a vending machine that stole his dollar.
They say he’s unpredictable. No, he’s very predictable. He reacts exactly like a microwave with anger issues. Now the economy is limping, the dollar’s tired, and allies are learning Mandarin just in case.
Trump says, “I no longer have to think purely of peace.” That implies he ever did. That’s like saying, “I no longer have to pretend this fork is a spoon.”
History books will write: “He didn’t know he was ending the empire, he thought he was redecorating Mar-a-Lago.”
They say he’s making the US strong, yeah….strong like a guy who bench presses with his spine.
And honestly, I respect that because it takes confidence to burn down your house and call it feng shui.
Yep, Trump is one crazy bastard, run amuck. What next? Meanwhile, Bill writes from his very nice (we stayed there, heh try to bring a pair of binoculars in, they get real pissed at you) resort in Nicaragua, safe because every place else in that country has goofballs with guns at the ready. How to square the circle of Bill's logic? I'll go back to reading about the Roman Empire thanks, that'll make some sense of what we got now.
ZOG - Zionist Occupation Government? Or Zog the Dragon from the children's book? Perhaps you equating Trump with Zog the Dragon - Zog was as determined to get a gold star at school and Trump is determined to get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Could someone please explain the importance of the Japanese bond markets in all of this? Am I correct in saying that: Japan's economy over the last 20 years is somewhat of an experiment with high debt levels and relatively low interest rates? However, it is yet to be seen if this has truly hindered their economy? Also, large portions of this debt are held domestically within Japan ... not sure where this fully comes into the picture but I have some theories. What's the connection to the US?
For some context, I'm 22 years old and in college.. Trying to connect the dots between what I'm reading here, learning in class, WSJ, and reading in Ray Dalio's Changing World Order, etc. and figure out where to put my money to work.
Japan isn’t a side story here. It’s one of the load-bearing walls.
After its asset bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan pushed interest rates toward zero and eventually locked them there for decades. That created the foundation for the yen carry trade: borrow yen cheaply, sell it, convert to dollars, and buy higher-yielding assets elsewhere.
The key point is this: investors were selling yen, not buying it.
As long as Japanese rates stayed near zero and the yen stayed weak, that trade quietly supported global liquidity. When Japan recently began backing away from negative rates and loosening yield-curve control, even slightly, it mattered. A stronger yen forces carry trades to unwind, and that ripples through global markets.
Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio is massive, around 250%, but most of that debt is held domestically, much of it by the Bank of Japan. The cost hasn’t been a crisis, it’s been decades of low growth and financial repression.
The U.S. connection is straightforward. Japan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, roughly $1.1–1.2 trillion. They aren’t going to dump them overnight. But if they repatriate capital or simply stop reinvesting maturing bonds, the marginal buyer in the U.S. bond market changes.
And marginal changes are how systems shift.
That’s why Japan matters. Not because it’s collapsing, but because it’s slowly moving from a global liquidity anchor to something less predictable.
Speaking of the Japanese Stock market, which at the time was there economy and stock market to end all future markets. Is it possible that our US Stock market headed toward a repeat of the 1/1/1990 Japanese stock market crash? Most Wall Street “experts” will waive that question to the side by pointing out the Nikkei high on 1/1/1990 was y$ 38,957 and the Nikkei is now y52,777 for a total gain over almost 35 years of 35.54%. (in Japanese Yen)
1. Now I will use US Dollars as the measuring stick.
2. 1/1/1990 Nikkei Dollar value. $270.00
3. 1/21/2026 Nikkei Dollar value. $333.71
4. 35-year Nikkei total return in US$ 23.6%
A. Now I will use ounces of Gold as the measuring stick.
B. Ounces of gold to buy the Nikkei 1/1/1990 0.65 oz
C. Ounces of gold to buy the Nikkei today 0.07 oz
D. 35-year Nikkei total return in gold ounces -89.2%
Final fact is the Japanese stockholder who spent his $270.00 could purchase 0.65 ounces of $418.00 gold on 1/1/1990. Those same .65 oz of gold today would be worth over $31000. That is a return of over 1100% over the same 35 years.
This should cause the present investor/owner of the US Stock market to consider,
“Got Gold”. Take these comments for what they are worth.
Virtually all the governments in the world are hopelessly in debt and cannot pay their promises in real money i.e. that has today's value in the future. In other words they all have inflation in the background waiting to explode. So Japan is just one of the more extreme examples, more in debt. But since no country is paying back their debt fairly they all are not held to account. The politicians solution is to keep spending and hoping, absurdly, that they will deal with it when the debt collapse comes. When confidence in all these currencies fail, because it should and will, and it will all happen at once. This is exactly why gold is rallying i.e. everyone is trying to avoid the collapse in spending power of one's savings. They are buying the only real money, gold. Some think its bitcoin but with zero history. Japan was advised by Ben Bernanke, one of the biggest printers and spenders, to print money. So the US isn't calling out but protecting Japan. They supply us with tremendous cars etc. Notice their money is losing value drastically. Japanese trust their leaders and invest in themselves but they are all growing poorer. But they really have no choice but to sell to the US to keep their economy going.
Trump is trying to resolve the US debt problems both by growing the economy and simultaneously devaluing the dollar so the debt can be paid back with lesser valued dollars. It isn't fair to the bond holders but it is spreading the default around to people with money (bonds). Watch his speech at the WEF today. He says exactly what he thinks he is doing. Bill doesn't like it because he is an old man with lots of money who wants the system to continue. He just complains that it won't work and he doesn't read any other opinions except main stream media so he see no other side. He's probably right but you get nowhere if you don't try. Trump is trying to save America. In the mean time Trump is exposing all the corruption in the socialistic world, these wars the leaders have promoted, this wokism and climate change nonsense, censorship, vaccines that damage, country leaders that lie constantly like EU leaders that want WWIII as an excuse to cover up their incompetence economically. Politicians, US politicians have led the world down this path of spending what they don't have and haven't earned, followed by the rest of the world's politicians. Now it is coming to and end because the world has lost confidence in their own money and they can't sell bonds to finance more spending. Bonds are the way countries finance their endless spending, when they can't sell more the game is up and collapse comes to the fore.
CF, your comment that the jury s still out on whether the Japanese experiment has hindered the economy, I believe, is the reason they have decided that it is not working. The Yen has devalued and Japan with almost no natural resources other than the ability to work hard and smart needs to purchase them abroad with a faltering currency.
The carry trade i.e. borrowing at close to zero rates and purchasing US debt (bonds) with a better return will, as a consequence, slow and have a negative effect on the US bond market pushing up interest rates.
Trump and a large part of the American public still believe that tariffs are paid by China or France or whomever, but they are paid by us; the consumer. I’m a manufacturer; and have been for 40 years, I have sourced everything I can in the US. Some things I cannot, because they aren’t made here mostly due to onerous environmental laws on foundries. Now I pay an 85% tariff to import parts. Tell me how that helps.
...as a manufacturer I too have problems sourcing some non-ferrous metals, but I have also acquired new sales (particularly from the EU).
Assuming these tariffs continue to entice U.S. investment, it will pay in the long run.
I appreciate your comment, but to compound the issue; I found out today that Schlumberger and Baker Hughes both have 100% exemptions from the tariff to import the exact same product that I pay 86% tariff on. I have also acquired new sales in Libya, Iraq, and now Venezuela. The tariffs are BS and only applied to those who don't have a lobbyist.
...you say you acquired new sales... were the tariffs in part responsible for that?
No they were not.
It will pay, that is assuming You and I are still around to see the pay day! No?
Change the onerous laws. Use your money and influence.
I have on transportation companies for over 45 years.I helped ship factories all over the world. Where were you then? Where were?\nYou and when foundries were almost made illegal.Based on e p a regulations. Many didn't care if they saw more profit in Mexico at first then China,Thailand Vietnam. Footwear manufacturing went to Brazil USA be damned.
You'll get no tears from me. I was witness to the millions losing their jobs. Labor is not the issue , it's regulations across the board. It was done on purpose , so it would be a good excuse for manufacturing to leave
Just fix it and stop complaining.
Well, I was building a business in the US. Providing machining, assembly, installation, and trucking jobs in the US. Sorry I don't have a billion dollars to build a foundry in the US. I agree that we need manufacturing jobs here, and have been providing them for years. But when I find out that my competitors; two of the largest companies in the world, are exempt from the tariffs; I have to call bullshit on his plan.
About Canada, those on both ends of that country have hated Americans for many decades now. We are loaded with them living and working right here in the good old USA, but Americans are not welcome to work up there. Nope, can't work in Canada unless you work for an American company that does business in Canada.
I live in Seattle and have been to B.C. numerous times over the decades. In the 70's-80's it was a kind, welcoming place. However, my first glimpse of change was in the 90's, when the dollar was strong against the loony. I was surprised when I got a couple cold responses while dining and shopping there. I never got that before. In 2004, I attended a three day conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver, put together by none other than Bill Bonner. It was the first time I saw many people I am familiar with today, including Rick Rule. The hotel staff was great, but when you got out and about the city, again, it was a mixture. Fast forward to 2012, and as I said here before, with my Washington state license plate, I wasn't sure I was going to get out of there without being in an accident. The animosity was real. I haven't been back since.
In 2015 I was receiving physical therapy. On one visit, the P.T. was telling me that her brother is married to a Canadian and lives in Victoria, B.C., she visits him at least once a year. When there she attends his church. Twice the minister's message was a hate-filled diatribe against America. The second time this happened she asked her brother, "Does he give this message because he knows I am visiting from America?" Her brother said, "No, that's his message all the time." She never went back.
Today, 25% of Canada's population are foreign born. A very wealthy flood came in from Hong Kong starting in the late 70's. They have opened their arms wide in the past twenty years to Chinese. Any one familiar with Canada should know that it is no surprise they are siding with China today, fully rejecting America. The only good part of Canada today is Alberta.
Mark Carney is a powerful, extreme, globalist, not someone to mess around with. He is full steam ahead for the one world government and loves it when anti-Americans like the Clintons, Bidens (when he could think), that black Marxist Muslim Obama were president. They are all in on it. But so are plenty of politicians like the Minnesota gangster idiots, every single democrat (except maybe Fetterman), and three-fourths of the republicans. They are all together in the same poisonous stew to bring down America.
They all hate Trump, including BB, because Trump is fighting against this. Europeans are socialists. They have nursed off the teets of us Americans for 75 years. Personally, I am sick of those snobs. We defend them with the blood of our citizens, and our money, and they turn their nose up. Let them defend themselves.
Read the book of Revelations people. We are in the last days.
Yes Penny, the last days and You and I canot do a thing about it. Only point out the obvious.
Does anyone else find it ironic that at the same time the Trump administration rails against the lack of democracy in Venezuela and Iran they also threaten to takeover of Greenland without giving the Greenlanders a say in the matter? I've seen polls indicating that 85% of them do not want to become a colony of the US.
Cartero, you suffer from the same TDS as Bill.
Could you please explain how my opposition to taking over Greenland is a symptom of TDS? So you have no problem with Donnie's desire to take control of Greenland in spite of the fact only 6% of Greenlanders wish to become a colony of the US?
I would consider more a victim of BSDS. BS Derangement Syndrome. Both teams preach their "democracy" BS when it comes to regime change in countries that don't agree with them. I wish they would just shut up about democracy and be honest. For instance say "We don't give a rat's ass about democracy. We are invading Libya, Iraq, Syria, Panama, Venezuela, Greenland, etc because it suits our economic interests".
All sounding like ZOG me.
Sorry. I had a question below. Are you comparing Trump with Zog the Dragon from a kids book? Zog was ad determined to get a gold star at school as Donnie is determined to get his peace prize.
ZOG: Zionist Organized Government.
"Self Determination and Freedom of Choice" are American values.
Self determination is an American value as long as you agree to cooperate with the US government. For example, the US was fine supporting Somoza in Nicaragua - FDR even said he may be an SOB but he's our SOB - but once the Sandinistas threw him out we decided it was our time to determine who should govern that country.
No.
I grew up reading the Sunday funnies Comics Bonner is the current Sunday funnies except hes not funny Hes dour negative and WRONG Read Trumps speech at Davos Ignore Bonner Read Bonner for comics if you want Wasting money on subscription Im long Gold Im short Bonner
True. I read Bongo Bill just to see what he's going to say. How he can distort and exaggerate the negative. It is comical, but dark comedy from a TDS-damaged mind.
TDS works in both directions. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Ah, yes. And none so blind who speak with a forked tongue.
"What was he doing before? We don't know." That's YOUR comment, BiBo!! Did you NOT BOTHER to recognize the multiple ARMED CONFLICTS around the world which your-favorite-guy-to-hate settled ??? Were you purposely ignoring Trump's success WORLD-WIDE? [Answer: "yes".]
Settled? I'll wait for history to judge. If I live that long.
I must be mistaken about the conflicts which were reported as "settled" and claimed by Trump. If I erroneously made that claim, don't hesitate to explain the outcomes you believe. Thanks. RRN
We're still waiting for your list.
I'm still waiting for that " I settle Ukraine in 1 day".
I guess we mistook "1 day" for "...one day..."
Now that right there is dang well done. I can't help but smile at your "quote".
Harold! That's good stuff! Maybe Trump soon found out the Ukraine problems initiated by the Biden Crew - I can remember Joe Biden claiming he was taking Ukraine down if they didn't fire somebody or pay somebody $1mil before the plane departed for USA. Trump must not have realized how much $$$ was missing after the Biden's sucked it up! R
Where are the facts that support this bullshit:
"Dollar Collapse Warning: 10 Countries, 45% of the World Just Ditched the USD".
Last I checked there are ~190 countries so 45% would be 85, not 10. 10 would be 19%.
More and more I read your prose, more and more it smells like dog shit. Simple arithmetic Billy, Simple.
At least get the simple stuff write before you post your hate filled diatribes.
🤣 Tell us how you really feel. Always enjoy reading your comments.
Bill appears to be drawing from the same YouTube video now making the rounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdMeQJFIcI
The video claims that “10 countries representing roughly 45% of the world’s population have ditched the U.S. dollar.”
On population alone, that’s directionally true. Add up the usual BRICS-heavy list and you land in the low-40% range.
But population is not the issue.
Those countries do not share a unified payment system that replaces the dollar-based SWIFT framework.
What they actually have are parallel and partial arrangements:
China has CIPS.
Russia has SPFS.
Others use bilateral local-currency settlement or pilot projects like mBridge.
These systems reduce reliance on the dollar at the margins. They do not replace SWIFT. They do not interoperate as a single network.
No bloc representing 45% of humanity has “ditched” the dollar in any comprehensive or operational sense. That leap from “population share” to “functional dollar exit” is how YouTube thumbnails are made. It is not how payment systems work.
Feels like Bill has borrowed a page from Donny’s rhetorical playbook lately.
I’m sure a clarification will follow. :)
doubt the follow up, would require research and not bs. Thanks for the update
Gold and Silver are not going up because the US$ is SO STRONG!
As a strong currency nation you issue Long Term, low interest Treasury Bonds to cover your 38 trillion dollar debt.
Have you checked to see how our Treasury is currently financing any roll-over of our 38 trillion dollar debt? Limit your search to T Bills. It will save you time.
Oh Harold, I'm not saying it isn't so, we all know it is a mess. I would like to read accurate prose, not supposition, not regurgitated YouTube crap - I agree with your premise. This is suppose to be a financial board, but it is drowning in politics.
Bongo Bill gives another recap of the lamestream media talking points from his TDS-addled brain.
If ever I miss seeing a comment by Trump I can certainly count on seeing it repeated here by Bill the next day.
and it is always blah, blah, blah bitching and moaning, never offering an alternative solution. must be nice to be sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, then tell everyone else everything that is being done is bullshit.
Plus the guy doesn't even live in America. He reads too much main stream media and amazingly doesn't question it despite the fact that it has been negative for America's culture, destroying society, while stealing from us and promoting socialism like Clintons, Biden and Obama. They are using the "fairness doctrine" which they personally describe and define to get elected. Bill, now that he has billions and lives in other countries, apparently loves socialism. He might change his tune when the socialists run out of other people's money to confiscate and come after him. My guess is he thinks he will be spared for supporting socialism.
Bill has given you and all the politicos in the US an alternative. The fact that no one has the morals, the balls, the foresight, or the good sense to do any of it, is another matter.
You must be new. All is forgiven.
https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/clowns-and-jokers
Mr. Kandia, I have read that article by Bill, and it is all just virtue signaling to make himself feel good or try to convince himself what a noble and brave leader he would be. But in the article, he doesn't tell the reader what the impact would be over a few years, economically and politically. This is because such enormous, rapid reductions would cause a jobs depression, wiping out the GOP in Congress, and VP Vance would be creamed in 2028 by a radical leftist. Then the Democrats would immediately reverse all the spending cuts, pass a mass amnesty, and open the southern border as wide as possible.
This kind of virtue signaling is similar to what these leftist white females are doing in Minneapolis and other U.S. metro areas. They live cocooned/sheltered lives in safe suburbs with good jobs, good schools, and low or no crime. Yet they love all the little black and brown people in the violent, drug-addicted, welfare-dependent U.S. third-world cities---as long as these people don't dare move into their neighborhoods. Just try to place public housing in their suburban neighborhoods, then hear them scream---very loudly.
So there are pie-in-the-sky, virtue-signaling alternative solutions, then there are realistic, real-world alternative solutions. So when conservatives like me and commenter "working stiff" request alternative solutions, we are talking about realistic, real-world ones.
You really nail it Frank. Excellence on every point!
Thank you, Mr. Mackinac. I really appreciate it.
You guy's joining me on Billy’s black ball list?
:-)
Yes indeed, President Trump lives in Bonner’s head rent free! What a sad existence
This morning, I received an email from a person who runs a business in the USA. And abroad. I happened to be a member. Here is what the email headline read: "I Run a $100M American Company, I’m Diversifying Away From the U.S."
During the email, this person, who primarily runs a meditation and self help site, started talking about:
The U.S. dollar fell 11% in the first half of 2025, its worst drop since 1973.
Major banks, including Morgan Stanley, forecast another 10–20% decline through 2027.
Foreign ownership of U.S. Treasuries has dropped from 50% to 33%.
Central banks are buying gold at the fastest pace in modern history.
Gold rose 55% in 2025, crossing $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever.
The long and short of it, he said this:
"I can no longer afford to have my financial life overly concentrated in America."
The crux? "The Dollar Was Never Just Currency (the currency signal). The U.S. dollar isn’t just money. It’s a trust infrastructure. It works because the world assumes:
Policy changes will be gradual
Alliances will be respected
Rules won’t change overnight
When that trust weakens, capital doesn’t run screaming. It quietly reallocates."
And started to tell his clients about gold. Physical. Institutional. Now if this guy, who NORMALLY runs a self help site, is not only talking about how to fix your psyche, and runs a $100 M company is "diversifying," LOUDLY, how many more are doing it QUIETLY? I surmise, a lot.
More Trump bullshit without alternatives, and it is always blah, blah, blah bitching and moaning, never offering a solution. Must be nice to be sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, traveling the world then tell everyone else everything that is being done is bullshit. So Billy, WWBD? I mean, other than bitching.....and knocking down everyone that is not a (D). oye...
Lots of alternatives. None which befit a wanna-be king, mind you. But yes, alternatives abound. BTW, in December 2022, it was the Democrats that were running the show, when our dear Billy wrote this piece. Because everyone was on his case about his bitching, but no solutions.
Here they are, again, for those long term memory challenged. And new subscribers, like yourself. Enjoy!
https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/clowns-and-jokers
Sorry I couldn't being myself to read the whole thing when the first couple sentences tell the entire story. Tired of his shit. BUT is there anyone in the world who doesn't know the US has spent too much money but why is every politician on board with doing exactly that? May I suggest that it is because the first president to stop the spending knows the collapse will start. That's exactly why no matter which politician you ask to spend less, you get the same response, crickets.
That's exactly why Trump isn't stopping the spending either. But he is addressing it through firing federal workers, some 10,000 stated, in his speech today. That's why he has caught Somalian's stealing 15 B. It's why he has exposed USAID for what it is and the department of Education. It is all the just common sense stuff that exposes the corruption, which apparently Bill likes. That's also the reason why Bill never gives approaches to this problem. He doesn't have any. Got to give him credit for at least seeing the problem, just no solutions. Probably can't stand it that someone is trying to solve the problems.
“Common sense” is doing a lot of work in your comment.
Everyone agrees the U.S. has spent too much for too long. That is not controversial. What is controversial is pretending that pointing at corruption, firing staff, or uncovering waste solves a structural problem driven by trillion-dollar deficits, demographics, entitlements, defense commitments, and interest costs.
Cutting waste is necessary. It is not sufficient.
You can remove thousands of workers and still run deficits measured in trillions. You can expose bad programs and still leave the largest line items untouched. The math does not care about slogans.
If “common sense” means anything here, it means confronting the parts politicians usually avoid:
Which major programs shrink.
Which promises get rewritten.
Which taxes change.
Which overseas commitments get reduced.
Which constituencies get angry.
That is why every administration struggles. Not because collapse is inevitable, but because the real fixes are politically radioactive.
Diagnosing rot is easy. Prioritizing cuts is the hard part.
So yes, by all means audit everything.
But until someone shows a ranked, credible plan that bends the *top line* of spending and deficits, “common sense” is just another word for frustration rather than a governing strategy.
wanna be king, keep following the MSM, that got us so very far.... One Question, if that were true, why did he leave office after the rigged election (don't even tell me the cadaver got more votes (80MM) than obummer), if your MSM bs claim had truth we would have seen it then, but the MSM has you following the pendulum ...left and right left and right...thats it now keep you eye firmly on it....
“MSM” usually means “𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖.”
It is a catch-all term for big, established outlets. Networks. National papers. Wire services like Reuters and AP.
There is no single hive mind called 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙎𝙈. No control room with a red phone and a cat stroking villain issuing the day’s marching orders.
Some outlets lean left. Some lean right. Some mostly report numbers and court filings and budgets. Others sell outrage by the pound.
If someone wants to argue a specific article is wrong, great. Name it. Quote it. Show the math.
Saying “the MSM lied” is not evidence. It is mood lighting.
At my age I am less interested in pendulums and hypnotists than in spreadsheets.
Budgets. Votes. Court rulings. Balance sheets. Debt trajectories.
Facts are stubborn little creatures. They do not care who anchors the evening news.
And if the claim is that *𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚* is brainwashed except the person typing in all caps… well, history suggests that is usually the moment to check one’s own mirrors.
I like President Trump. He’s efficient. Most empires take centuries to collapse, he’s doing it with updates.
He tariffs wine because someone said no. “I’ll tariff your wine until you love me”, that’s not foreign policy, that’s dating advice from a prison therapist.
He bombs countries like he’s swatting flies that look at him funny. He threatens bankers like a guy yelling at a vending machine that stole his dollar.
They say he’s unpredictable. No, he’s very predictable. He reacts exactly like a microwave with anger issues. Now the economy is limping, the dollar’s tired, and allies are learning Mandarin just in case.
Trump says, “I no longer have to think purely of peace.” That implies he ever did. That’s like saying, “I no longer have to pretend this fork is a spoon.”
History books will write: “He didn’t know he was ending the empire, he thought he was redecorating Mar-a-Lago.”
They say he’s making the US strong, yeah….strong like a guy who bench presses with his spine.
And honestly, I respect that because it takes confidence to burn down your house and call it feng shui.
DJY's bellicose actions wouldcertainly indicate that he has given up on the Peace price.
It is so exhilarating! At least it’s different. All these sources are extremely suspect: BBC, MSNBC and who is John Dienner ?
We have the largest oil reserves in the World; more than SA and they have a great economy based on oil.
And it’s all out in the open with, for the first time the MICC has a chance of helping the American people.
What we have been doing for the last 70 years was dastardly cloaked in lies and it destroyed the American economy.
China is great on the money and betrayal of American International Corporations.
The world has been a cesspool; we should make it work for us.
Macrons is an idiot who destroys his own country.
Yep, Trump is one crazy bastard, run amuck. What next? Meanwhile, Bill writes from his very nice (we stayed there, heh try to bring a pair of binoculars in, they get real pissed at you) resort in Nicaragua, safe because every place else in that country has goofballs with guns at the ready. How to square the circle of Bill's logic? I'll go back to reading about the Roman Empire thanks, that'll make some sense of what we got now.
Lol. Goofballs w guns at the ready? You talking about Minneapolis?
Give the old man a break, he gives $5.00 to the poor!
You have TDS and twist your descriptions of our President to sound like a far left wing media outlet. You’re worse than Baghdad Bob!
ZOG - Zionist Occupation Government? Or Zog the Dragon from the children's book? Perhaps you equating Trump with Zog the Dragon - Zog was as determined to get a gold star at school and Trump is determined to get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Could someone please explain the importance of the Japanese bond markets in all of this? Am I correct in saying that: Japan's economy over the last 20 years is somewhat of an experiment with high debt levels and relatively low interest rates? However, it is yet to be seen if this has truly hindered their economy? Also, large portions of this debt are held domestically within Japan ... not sure where this fully comes into the picture but I have some theories. What's the connection to the US?
For some context, I'm 22 years old and in college.. Trying to connect the dots between what I'm reading here, learning in class, WSJ, and reading in Ray Dalio's Changing World Order, etc. and figure out where to put my money to work.
Any insight would be awesome!
Japan isn’t a side story here. It’s one of the load-bearing walls.
After its asset bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan pushed interest rates toward zero and eventually locked them there for decades. That created the foundation for the yen carry trade: borrow yen cheaply, sell it, convert to dollars, and buy higher-yielding assets elsewhere.
The key point is this: investors were selling yen, not buying it.
As long as Japanese rates stayed near zero and the yen stayed weak, that trade quietly supported global liquidity. When Japan recently began backing away from negative rates and loosening yield-curve control, even slightly, it mattered. A stronger yen forces carry trades to unwind, and that ripples through global markets.
Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio is massive, around 250%, but most of that debt is held domestically, much of it by the Bank of Japan. The cost hasn’t been a crisis, it’s been decades of low growth and financial repression.
The U.S. connection is straightforward. Japan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, roughly $1.1–1.2 trillion. They aren’t going to dump them overnight. But if they repatriate capital or simply stop reinvesting maturing bonds, the marginal buyer in the U.S. bond market changes.
And marginal changes are how systems shift.
That’s why Japan matters. Not because it’s collapsing, but because it’s slowly moving from a global liquidity anchor to something less predictable.
Thank you, Lucas.
Speaking of the Japanese Stock market, which at the time was there economy and stock market to end all future markets. Is it possible that our US Stock market headed toward a repeat of the 1/1/1990 Japanese stock market crash? Most Wall Street “experts” will waive that question to the side by pointing out the Nikkei high on 1/1/1990 was y$ 38,957 and the Nikkei is now y52,777 for a total gain over almost 35 years of 35.54%. (in Japanese Yen)
1. Now I will use US Dollars as the measuring stick.
2. 1/1/1990 Nikkei Dollar value. $270.00
3. 1/21/2026 Nikkei Dollar value. $333.71
4. 35-year Nikkei total return in US$ 23.6%
A. Now I will use ounces of Gold as the measuring stick.
B. Ounces of gold to buy the Nikkei 1/1/1990 0.65 oz
C. Ounces of gold to buy the Nikkei today 0.07 oz
D. 35-year Nikkei total return in gold ounces -89.2%
Final fact is the Japanese stockholder who spent his $270.00 could purchase 0.65 ounces of $418.00 gold on 1/1/1990. Those same .65 oz of gold today would be worth over $31000. That is a return of over 1100% over the same 35 years.
This should cause the present investor/owner of the US Stock market to consider,
“Got Gold”. Take these comments for what they are worth.
Thanks, Harold.
IMO the understated investment opportunity are REE's.
Although there was great excitement late last year, REE's stocks have settled down.
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To my knowledge nothing has changed except some new mining opportunities.
Processing (the REE bottle neck) has not seen much innovation.
The U.S. still solely dependent upon the CCP for most all REE's.
And they are ahead in the processing technologies...
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IMO "when" not "if", Trump and Xi butt heads again, REE stocks will climb.
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Some to look up; MP NB UUUU UAMY PPTA CRML
Yes Mr . T. can intimidate little countries like Canada and Greenland. But China is a different big monster!
Virtually all the governments in the world are hopelessly in debt and cannot pay their promises in real money i.e. that has today's value in the future. In other words they all have inflation in the background waiting to explode. So Japan is just one of the more extreme examples, more in debt. But since no country is paying back their debt fairly they all are not held to account. The politicians solution is to keep spending and hoping, absurdly, that they will deal with it when the debt collapse comes. When confidence in all these currencies fail, because it should and will, and it will all happen at once. This is exactly why gold is rallying i.e. everyone is trying to avoid the collapse in spending power of one's savings. They are buying the only real money, gold. Some think its bitcoin but with zero history. Japan was advised by Ben Bernanke, one of the biggest printers and spenders, to print money. So the US isn't calling out but protecting Japan. They supply us with tremendous cars etc. Notice their money is losing value drastically. Japanese trust their leaders and invest in themselves but they are all growing poorer. But they really have no choice but to sell to the US to keep their economy going.
Trump is trying to resolve the US debt problems both by growing the economy and simultaneously devaluing the dollar so the debt can be paid back with lesser valued dollars. It isn't fair to the bond holders but it is spreading the default around to people with money (bonds). Watch his speech at the WEF today. He says exactly what he thinks he is doing. Bill doesn't like it because he is an old man with lots of money who wants the system to continue. He just complains that it won't work and he doesn't read any other opinions except main stream media so he see no other side. He's probably right but you get nowhere if you don't try. Trump is trying to save America. In the mean time Trump is exposing all the corruption in the socialistic world, these wars the leaders have promoted, this wokism and climate change nonsense, censorship, vaccines that damage, country leaders that lie constantly like EU leaders that want WWIII as an excuse to cover up their incompetence economically. Politicians, US politicians have led the world down this path of spending what they don't have and haven't earned, followed by the rest of the world's politicians. Now it is coming to and end because the world has lost confidence in their own money and they can't sell bonds to finance more spending. Bonds are the way countries finance their endless spending, when they can't sell more the game is up and collapse comes to the fore.
CF, your comment that the jury s still out on whether the Japanese experiment has hindered the economy, I believe, is the reason they have decided that it is not working. The Yen has devalued and Japan with almost no natural resources other than the ability to work hard and smart needs to purchase them abroad with a faltering currency.
The carry trade i.e. borrowing at close to zero rates and purchasing US debt (bonds) with a better return will, as a consequence, slow and have a negative effect on the US bond market pushing up interest rates.