In the logic of democracy (combined with the magic of a fake currency) political parties compete for power by promising voters more of other peoples’ money. It leads them into debt and inflation.
Doom and gloom, Bill, doom and gloom. We are screwed and all the election did was trade one group of elites for another. You may be correct although your perpetual predictions for economic ruin in America have yet to come true. Your faithful followers, like me, watched as the optimists have reaped the profits of a prosperous stock market. I know, Bill, you have the benefit of history on your side and, frankly, I feel the odds of the flimflam are in your favor in some regards. However, America’s greatest offering to itself is “hope.” All those illegals and the much-smaller set of legal immigrants are coming here because they have hope in their hearts that their lives will be much better in America than anywhere else. Your diatribe aims to destroy that hope. I have yet to read any solutions to your doom and gloom other than don’t do what we are presently doing. So, Bill, put your money where your mouth is. Take a deep dive into all areas of government and tell us what you think solutions are. Be specific with not one word of criticism. The critic who never has anything to offer but criticism soon evolves into a harpy and becomes irrelevant. Start sowing some hope, Bill.
It is a long reach to expect too much in the way of solutions to be offered up by Mr Bonner in his daily missives. It IS his substack platform and we all are welcomed to chime in and we do.
The job for all of us is to keep our heads on 360° pivot, stay nimble, our eyes and minds scanning the horizons, put at our own disposal as many additional input perspectives as we are inclined, want, need or able to manage.
For example, (I do not think this too contrarian) we can, put aside domestic politics, and consider this. Today, from Marin Katusa, a brief article entitled: China Hits the Panic Button - Katusa Research - https://tinyurl.com/4v82pj5m
When we have digested that essay about China and Xi’s headaches, we are freed up to take a look at Germany’s and France’s economies, deficit spending, social welfare, national debt, layoffs, and body politic. Talk about headaches… that’s the makings for migraines.
It appears that You and I read a lot of the same material from many an editor. Ie Marin. Yes Bill does keep giving us food for thought. If We all could assemble the wise words from These post and send then to the authorities that be . Maybe , just maybe , their could be changes to the good . But I doubt it as they would have to open their eyes to new , well maybe not new, but sobering thought.
Agree, good one Don, “…send to the authorities that be.”
I decided to do just that with a select number of newly elected members in both the lower & upper house since I wanted them to not let themselves become captive and that a “movement” was monitoring them closely… in so many words.
I got quite a few personalized responses. One in particular, a lengthy reply, talking points on unsustainable deficit spending and national debt from a Senator elect and expressed openness for a sit-down together.
"Movement". Right-On, Mark! Isn't that wonderful to have such hope in a President, that We The People can, in this century, feel confident that regular ol' Americans can put forth our Ideas and scrutiny without being persecuted? Well done!
The other side has offered a solution with very little doom and gloom other than they use the word unsustainable a lot. They call their solution The Great Reset. I don’t think you’ll like it. Give me a solution I will like , you say. First let us consider The Great Reset for just a moment. It’s architects came up with the idea because they knew they had screwed things up beyond the point of recoverable and wanted to blame the masses. That meant pointing to things like climate change and overpopulation, which are ruses and red herrings and they know it. What the perps and great resetters saw was unsustainable debt and unavoidable economic chaos worldwide, all created by themselves. It was so bad that they believed an engineered collapse and rebuilding(according to their own utopian vision) was the only way out. But here is a solution for you if you are looking for solutions.
Don’t like that solution or don’t buy it? One could say “Tough!” because that is the solution proffered by the Money Changers and Institution Controllers. Hard to offer a solution if you aren’t one of them. You’re a non-participant.
At this point the only real solution is in the hands of God Almighty. Don’t like that solution either? If you can learn to love the idea of owning nothing and being happy then that might work for a while. Otherwise get on your knees and pray.
“Your faithful followers, like me, watched as the optimists have reaped the profits of a prosperous stock market.”…I feel your pain, brother. I feel your pain.
But hell, I have only myself to blame. I was warned several times by three different financial advisors that I was making a mistake by following Bonner & Co. I didn’t listen to them. I even told them THEY were misreading the “tea leaves.” The joke’s on me. At least they’ve been kind enough to not lay “I told you so” on me.
"it only stops when it has to stop... after the host dies" Reminds me of Ayn Rand's conclusions in Atlas Shrugged, where the producers had to be convinced to stop feed the beast in order for it to fail and open the way for a new era.
Ayn Rand - greatest and most uncompromising defender of individual rights to have ever lived! I don't know if you followed up AS by reading her non-fiction books analyzing issues on a fundamental philosophical and moral basis, but much good reading there also.
I wish I could disagree with you, Bill, but there is a lot of socialist ideas baked into our country's culture. I heard a report today that Trump is backing the port workers union concerning limiting using machinery to increase productivity at the ports. Imagine a world without bulldozers and all sorts of other machinery. But politicians feel they have to make such concessions to get votes as they believe giveaways get them more votes than they may lose. And the government is seen as the dispenser of favors. (Not true of all politicians, but too many of them.)
I will say that in Trump's case, he thinks he is making some "minor" concession like this in order to achieve some much more important policies that will ultimately be beneficial to the economy. But, of course, the messaging is all wrong and the Democrats will seize on it to apply this faulty logic to other issues. Instead, Trump could make the more important and slightly more complicated argument of how more efficiency benefits us all. Without all the machinery we have created, there is no way we would have all the goods and services that we now enjoy.
I disagree Dan, Bill posts solutions every day. Don't spend more than you earn. Cut down the size of government. Stop fighting every bodies wars. Stop using fake money. Stop telling lies to the public. Stop believing the the MSM. The answers are clear to everyone. The problem is, everyone stops thinking when the answers affect them. They want someone else to foot the bill.
Bill, you absolutely nailed it today!!! Our society has been indoctrinated into thinking government can solve their problems, whereas its actually the source. It looks like society has finally come to its senses and shown Woke the door. Its well past time to show the Statists the door.
The last of the yield curve inversions (10 yr. versus 3 month) just uninverted today. We'll soon get to see if this metric is still a good recession indicator. Here's hoping we get an incredibly deep and painful recession. This could be good for the Trump administration and good for society. Until our economically illiterate society learns that you can't print your way to prosperity we'll continue to circle the toilet bowl.
Isn't that always the plan, Craig. Didn't we already learn that from J.P. Morgan and his Western European "Banksters"? The game hasn't changed. And presumably, folks are looking forward to, emulating:
"The Big Short". Or as the contemporary slur on the cryptocurrency movement goes: Another "Rug-Pull" on the Tradfi suckers.
The US will never reach catastrophic inflation levels. The Son of Fred, The American Savior is already turning the page and writing the next chapter of The Golden Era.
If you fear God, which is a very wise thing to do, then you should also fear Lord Trump, for nothing under His control will ever fail.
Your faith in Lord Trump should be at the same level as your faith in God. Blasphemy you say? Verily I say unto you, nothing short of the truth.
The world falls apart if the elites are divided by the actions of the middle class and the poor.
President Trump unites all souls. The elite, middle class, and the poor follow His truth and rally behind the torch of life, liberty, and happiness.
Within the unity of His presence, America and the world cannot fail, as the 1000 years of peace and prosperity begin on earth on Monday January 20, of the year 2025.
Everything is just hunky dory. No worries. Even Hunter is not paying his back rent owed to his California landlord.
M
In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, "Stille Nacht" was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818, at the Nikolauskirche, the parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, a village in the Lungau region, Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. composed by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr.
No shame Sluggo, Bill can be opaque. Too, I have to reread him as well. Bonner already did help today with these:
▫️ “Nobody knows what will happen, but it is definitely wise to be in Maximum Safety Mode, until we find out.”
▫️ “It took inflation at 3,700% to stop the bloodsuckers on the Pampas...”
Mr Bonner knows, though omits, he’s been in and around the Pampas for decades. So there is this (forced today to look it up myself) - https://goldprice.org/gold-price-argentina.html - yup, that’s Au spot price in (ARS) Argentine pesos… not in greenbacks.
NET NET: Gold has proven to be an effective hedge against Argentina’s hyperinflation over time, particularly evident during periods where inflation rates have soared dramatically. The consistent increase in gold prices relative to the Argentine peso supports this assertion.
Well, when one needs a retirement account to generate dividends/income, not seeing how gold works with that. Guess you buy all these gold coins, bury them the yard surrounded by a moat full of alligators, then monthly go sell some to raise the next month’s living expenses. Seems like a pain in the ass…
Well Sluggo , gold is like insurance.. Not insurance , but when a crash comes , and it will , there is gold . It still is a form of money . It does protect a certain amount of Your money. Maybe not all . I do not see that as a trading item.
When the crash comes? Isn't that always the scheme. It's called a rug-pull and hoping to ruin lives so a few insiders can laugh over champagne & caviar in the safety of a bolt hole really isn't very "tasteful" these days. Seriously. Gold bugs aren't "Kool" anymore. Just sayn' . Sometimes having a conscience is worth more than gold.
😂😂😅😅 Classic! Sluggo, I'm liking the way you think.
Gold and all the so-called "precious metal" are so 1800's. This is what happens when the elderly generation ignores the new technologies like the Internet and allows the government to teach children the future. They should've taken that lesson from the indigenous (Native American) before slauteriing them firstly and instead of indoctrinating them with bullchit imperialist monetary debt slavery ideologies. But heck, we all, make mistakes. Unless you're simply - insane.
Maybe so 1800's but has a history that proves it's meta. And Yes I am an older generation old fart. Nothing wrong with technology, it is just a tool and nothing more!
Okay, but I believe that the point of the situation was missed there. And the comment wasn't meant to date your age or financial experience, actually. The problem is that the USG education system is counterproductive by not putting those resources into adults and simply allowing children to be children and tweeners.
We as a society should be outraged that our taxes are being waisted by NOT teaching and providing those "free" technology-learning resources to adults, that which makes far better economical sense. Because 5 - 10 year olds aren't allowed to work and pay taxes, only adults and 16 yr olds at a mundane pay level. And by the time they are adults, that tech is obsolete, but the "parents" are not. Make sense? Because otherwise it's a terrible return on our taxpayers' investment! Just like everything that is paid out from this incompetent "blob" called The USG.
Porter Stansberry warns that ‘The People’ too have lost their fear:
"46% of mom-and-pop investors in the U.S. think there’s less than a 10% chance of a market crash over the next six months... the most optimistic outlook since June 2006."
And they are likely right as market crashes are rare, especially those predicted over short-term time horizons.
Peter Lynch warns, "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves."
“Peter Lynch warns, ‘Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.’”….well heck, NOW you tell me!…lol
At least my brother listened to his financial dude and ignored my passing along the Bonner&Co Max Safety Mode™️ admonitions. His retirement account is all the better for it. Good for him.
When individual political elites become corrupted, accountability mechanisms weaken or disappear entirely. They will manipulate laws, systems, or public perception to shield themselves from consequences. In the long term, this can lead to widespread societal consequences, such as:
Economic inequality and hardship.
Loss of public trust.
Revolts, protests, or even systemic collapse.
Increased crime and lawlessness.
Does any of this sound familiar?? "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Bill's doom and gloom results from "We the People" allowing our country to become systematically corrupted.
So Bill, how do we eliminate the corruption? And how do we do it in the time we have left to save ourselves?
Doom and gloom, Bill, doom and gloom. We are screwed and all the election did was trade one group of elites for another. You may be correct although your perpetual predictions for economic ruin in America have yet to come true. Your faithful followers, like me, watched as the optimists have reaped the profits of a prosperous stock market. I know, Bill, you have the benefit of history on your side and, frankly, I feel the odds of the flimflam are in your favor in some regards. However, America’s greatest offering to itself is “hope.” All those illegals and the much-smaller set of legal immigrants are coming here because they have hope in their hearts that their lives will be much better in America than anywhere else. Your diatribe aims to destroy that hope. I have yet to read any solutions to your doom and gloom other than don’t do what we are presently doing. So, Bill, put your money where your mouth is. Take a deep dive into all areas of government and tell us what you think solutions are. Be specific with not one word of criticism. The critic who never has anything to offer but criticism soon evolves into a harpy and becomes irrelevant. Start sowing some hope, Bill.
Agree mostly. Yes Bill should offer a solution and if He does not see one say so. Just a side note , "hope " is not an investment strategy.
Agreed Don.
It is a long reach to expect too much in the way of solutions to be offered up by Mr Bonner in his daily missives. It IS his substack platform and we all are welcomed to chime in and we do.
The job for all of us is to keep our heads on 360° pivot, stay nimble, our eyes and minds scanning the horizons, put at our own disposal as many additional input perspectives as we are inclined, want, need or able to manage.
For example, (I do not think this too contrarian) we can, put aside domestic politics, and consider this. Today, from Marin Katusa, a brief article entitled: China Hits the Panic Button - Katusa Research - https://tinyurl.com/4v82pj5m
When we have digested that essay about China and Xi’s headaches, we are freed up to take a look at Germany’s and France’s economies, deficit spending, social welfare, national debt, layoffs, and body politic. Talk about headaches… that’s the makings for migraines.
Regards,
Mark
It appears that You and I read a lot of the same material from many an editor. Ie Marin. Yes Bill does keep giving us food for thought. If We all could assemble the wise words from These post and send then to the authorities that be . Maybe , just maybe , their could be changes to the good . But I doubt it as they would have to open their eyes to new , well maybe not new, but sobering thought.
Agree, good one Don, “…send to the authorities that be.”
I decided to do just that with a select number of newly elected members in both the lower & upper house since I wanted them to not let themselves become captive and that a “movement” was monitoring them closely… in so many words.
I got quite a few personalized responses. One in particular, a lengthy reply, talking points on unsustainable deficit spending and national debt from a Senator elect and expressed openness for a sit-down together.
Cheers,
Mark
"Movement". Right-On, Mark! Isn't that wonderful to have such hope in a President, that We The People can, in this century, feel confident that regular ol' Americans can put forth our Ideas and scrutiny without being persecuted? Well done!
Regards,
Orion
Excellent.
As you said, and that is the beauty of our exchanges here on BPR.
Expanded horizons. Some sanity checks. All good.
M
Thanks for the link.
The other side has offered a solution with very little doom and gloom other than they use the word unsustainable a lot. They call their solution The Great Reset. I don’t think you’ll like it. Give me a solution I will like , you say. First let us consider The Great Reset for just a moment. It’s architects came up with the idea because they knew they had screwed things up beyond the point of recoverable and wanted to blame the masses. That meant pointing to things like climate change and overpopulation, which are ruses and red herrings and they know it. What the perps and great resetters saw was unsustainable debt and unavoidable economic chaos worldwide, all created by themselves. It was so bad that they believed an engineered collapse and rebuilding(according to their own utopian vision) was the only way out. But here is a solution for you if you are looking for solutions.
Don’t like that solution or don’t buy it? One could say “Tough!” because that is the solution proffered by the Money Changers and Institution Controllers. Hard to offer a solution if you aren’t one of them. You’re a non-participant.
At this point the only real solution is in the hands of God Almighty. Don’t like that solution either? If you can learn to love the idea of owning nothing and being happy then that might work for a while. Otherwise get on your knees and pray.
“Your faithful followers, like me, watched as the optimists have reaped the profits of a prosperous stock market.”…I feel your pain, brother. I feel your pain.
But hell, I have only myself to blame. I was warned several times by three different financial advisors that I was making a mistake by following Bonner & Co. I didn’t listen to them. I even told them THEY were misreading the “tea leaves.” The joke’s on me. At least they’ve been kind enough to not lay “I told you so” on me.
"it only stops when it has to stop... after the host dies" Reminds me of Ayn Rand's conclusions in Atlas Shrugged, where the producers had to be convinced to stop feed the beast in order for it to fail and open the way for a new era.
Ayn Rand - greatest and most uncompromising defender of individual rights to have ever lived! I don't know if you followed up AS by reading her non-fiction books analyzing issues on a fundamental philosophical and moral basis, but much good reading there also.
I have and I agree with you 100%
I wish I could disagree with you, Bill, but there is a lot of socialist ideas baked into our country's culture. I heard a report today that Trump is backing the port workers union concerning limiting using machinery to increase productivity at the ports. Imagine a world without bulldozers and all sorts of other machinery. But politicians feel they have to make such concessions to get votes as they believe giveaways get them more votes than they may lose. And the government is seen as the dispenser of favors. (Not true of all politicians, but too many of them.)
I will say that in Trump's case, he thinks he is making some "minor" concession like this in order to achieve some much more important policies that will ultimately be beneficial to the economy. But, of course, the messaging is all wrong and the Democrats will seize on it to apply this faulty logic to other issues. Instead, Trump could make the more important and slightly more complicated argument of how more efficiency benefits us all. Without all the machinery we have created, there is no way we would have all the goods and services that we now enjoy.
Well done Mr Gallien. Thank you.
Regards,
Mark
I disagree Dan, Bill posts solutions every day. Don't spend more than you earn. Cut down the size of government. Stop fighting every bodies wars. Stop using fake money. Stop telling lies to the public. Stop believing the the MSM. The answers are clear to everyone. The problem is, everyone stops thinking when the answers affect them. They want someone else to foot the bill.
Bill, you absolutely nailed it today!!! Our society has been indoctrinated into thinking government can solve their problems, whereas its actually the source. It looks like society has finally come to its senses and shown Woke the door. Its well past time to show the Statists the door.
The last of the yield curve inversions (10 yr. versus 3 month) just uninverted today. We'll soon get to see if this metric is still a good recession indicator. Here's hoping we get an incredibly deep and painful recession. This could be good for the Trump administration and good for society. Until our economically illiterate society learns that you can't print your way to prosperity we'll continue to circle the toilet bowl.
Isn't that always the plan, Craig. Didn't we already learn that from J.P. Morgan and his Western European "Banksters"? The game hasn't changed. And presumably, folks are looking forward to, emulating:
"The Big Short". Or as the contemporary slur on the cryptocurrency movement goes: Another "Rug-Pull" on the Tradfi suckers.
The US will never reach catastrophic inflation levels. The Son of Fred, The American Savior is already turning the page and writing the next chapter of The Golden Era.
If you fear God, which is a very wise thing to do, then you should also fear Lord Trump, for nothing under His control will ever fail.
Your faith in Lord Trump should be at the same level as your faith in God. Blasphemy you say? Verily I say unto you, nothing short of the truth.
The world falls apart if the elites are divided by the actions of the middle class and the poor.
President Trump unites all souls. The elite, middle class, and the poor follow His truth and rally behind the torch of life, liberty, and happiness.
Within the unity of His presence, America and the world cannot fail, as the 1000 years of peace and prosperity begin on earth on Monday January 20, of the year 2025.
Amen
ES: Ah, you drank the kool-aid. If only what you said was really true, or would be true!
Dorothy!
It wasn’t Kool-aid, it tasted like cranberry juice and it supports kidney function! Lol
ES: Hahaha..that’s a good one!
Great article again Bill. Don't you mean, "They have no idea how INEFFICIENTLY their money is spent." ?
Hmmmm. Could go either way - but neither interpretation is good for the us...
Everything is just hunky dory. No worries. Even Hunter is not paying his back rent owed to his California landlord.
M
In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, "Stille Nacht" was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818, at the Nikolauskirche, the parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, a village in the Lungau region, Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. composed by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr.
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Hey Bill: the Sun’s gonna burn out in 4 or 5 billion years. Double-down on gold? Maybe more cash? It’s gonna get bad. A little help, please.
No shame Sluggo, Bill can be opaque. Too, I have to reread him as well. Bonner already did help today with these:
▫️ “Nobody knows what will happen, but it is definitely wise to be in Maximum Safety Mode, until we find out.”
▫️ “It took inflation at 3,700% to stop the bloodsuckers on the Pampas...”
Mr Bonner knows, though omits, he’s been in and around the Pampas for decades. So there is this (forced today to look it up myself) - https://goldprice.org/gold-price-argentina.html - yup, that’s Au spot price in (ARS) Argentine pesos… not in greenbacks.
NET NET: Gold has proven to be an effective hedge against Argentina’s hyperinflation over time, particularly evident during periods where inflation rates have soared dramatically. The consistent increase in gold prices relative to the Argentine peso supports this assertion.
TGIF Sluggo,
Mark
Well, when one needs a retirement account to generate dividends/income, not seeing how gold works with that. Guess you buy all these gold coins, bury them the yard surrounded by a moat full of alligators, then monthly go sell some to raise the next month’s living expenses. Seems like a pain in the ass…
Well Sluggo , gold is like insurance.. Not insurance , but when a crash comes , and it will , there is gold . It still is a form of money . It does protect a certain amount of Your money. Maybe not all . I do not see that as a trading item.
When the crash comes? Isn't that always the scheme. It's called a rug-pull and hoping to ruin lives so a few insiders can laugh over champagne & caviar in the safety of a bolt hole really isn't very "tasteful" these days. Seriously. Gold bugs aren't "Kool" anymore. Just sayn' . Sometimes having a conscience is worth more than gold.
😂😂😅😅 Classic! Sluggo, I'm liking the way you think.
Gold and all the so-called "precious metal" are so 1800's. This is what happens when the elderly generation ignores the new technologies like the Internet and allows the government to teach children the future. They should've taken that lesson from the indigenous (Native American) before slauteriing them firstly and instead of indoctrinating them with bullchit imperialist monetary debt slavery ideologies. But heck, we all, make mistakes. Unless you're simply - insane.
OD
Maybe so 1800's but has a history that proves it's meta. And Yes I am an older generation old fart. Nothing wrong with technology, it is just a tool and nothing more!
Okay, but I believe that the point of the situation was missed there. And the comment wasn't meant to date your age or financial experience, actually. The problem is that the USG education system is counterproductive by not putting those resources into adults and simply allowing children to be children and tweeners.
We as a society should be outraged that our taxes are being waisted by NOT teaching and providing those "free" technology-learning resources to adults, that which makes far better economical sense. Because 5 - 10 year olds aren't allowed to work and pay taxes, only adults and 16 yr olds at a mundane pay level. And by the time they are adults, that tech is obsolete, but the "parents" are not. Make sense? Because otherwise it's a terrible return on our taxpayers' investment! Just like everything that is paid out from this incompetent "blob" called The USG.
Porter Stansberry warns that ‘The People’ too have lost their fear:
"46% of mom-and-pop investors in the U.S. think there’s less than a 10% chance of a market crash over the next six months... the most optimistic outlook since June 2006."
And they are likely right as market crashes are rare, especially those predicted over short-term time horizons.
Peter Lynch warns, "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves."
Spend all your money the end is near!
“Peter Lynch warns, ‘Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.’”….well heck, NOW you tell me!…lol
At least my brother listened to his financial dude and ignored my passing along the Bonner&Co Max Safety Mode™️ admonitions. His retirement account is all the better for it. Good for him.
When individual political elites become corrupted, accountability mechanisms weaken or disappear entirely. They will manipulate laws, systems, or public perception to shield themselves from consequences. In the long term, this can lead to widespread societal consequences, such as:
Economic inequality and hardship.
Loss of public trust.
Revolts, protests, or even systemic collapse.
Increased crime and lawlessness.
Does any of this sound familiar?? "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Bill's doom and gloom results from "We the People" allowing our country to become systematically corrupted.
So Bill, how do we eliminate the corruption? And how do we do it in the time we have left to save ourselves?
This is the daily missive that truly captures what is happening, and why it has happened…Thanks Bill for your profound insight!
Bill why should the primary trend continue? What is your reasoning behind Dow/gold ratio falling? But the Doom indicator is rising. Why?