Some of Mr. Trump’s tariffs are so peculiar, it’s not clear where they fit into the constitutional structure. They are used as sanctions, punishments, bargaining chips and foreign policy weapons.
Thanks again, Bill. You are back to your completely unbiased enlightments. Obviously, we should be back to open borders and let in "anyone" so they can get a fair hearing. While they are waiting for a "fair hearing", we can give them free phones, free medical care. and free accomodations. Additionally, we should show them far more leniency than a US citizen would receive for committing the same crime. Why?? I'm sure you can explain it to us in your future writings.
Because Bill points out the outlandish things Trump and his team are doing doesn’t mean he’s endorsing the other side. Bonner has always been neutral. His job is to shine a light on the spectacle, no matter which party is running it.
The sad part is how many people can’t see that through their own party filter. Trump isn’t going to save anyone but himself — just as Harris and company won’t either. If anything, Trump will crown himself by dragging the U.S. into another forever war and sidelining elections. The Supreme Court rulings are only the opening act.
And this isn’t the first time America has fallen for a strongman who bends the law to his will. Andrew Jackson pulled the same moves almost 200 years ago. I wrote about those echoes here:
If that’s the solution you believe will fix the massive debt, the spiraling deficits, and the coming reset in equity markets, well… you’ll get what you deserve. Good luck.
I don't believe anything that any politician can do (no matter which side he's from) can save us from our debt. I voted for Trump because the other side's offer was "truly scary". My viewpoint has not changed. My favorite was Eisenhower and until the other side offers someone of his character, I'll vote for the lesser of two evils. If you voted for Harris, what can I say? Lots of luck.
Trump has always done whatever he wants — if saving America was on his list, he’d have done it years ago. Instead, he punted.
Action Plan #1
“We would simply announce that we have no further interest in the matter, cut off all foreign aid, and bring back all US troops now dawdling in far-flung, godforsaken outposts.”
— Bill Bonner
For the record, I’m Canadian, just trying to make sense of our own sideshow in my spare time, while watching your three-ring circus from afar.
I have to agree with Kenneth. Politicians - especially those in our Congress, are bought and paid for by the neocons and lobbies. Pure and simple. They don't even read the bills they pass. You do NOT hear one peep out of the vast majority about any of the hideous things are government does. The U.S. is not the "Land of the Free" or the "Home of the Brave" anymore. Our government focuses almost exclusively with bullying the rest of the world and using the Department of WAR to threaten, and if that doesn't work, kill people. Has been that way for a long time and it is accelerating. The U.S. and West hegemony is disintegrating at an accelerating rate. The US$ is not only crashing, the World is not walking but running away from it. The Eastern world have come together and are rapidly insulating themselves from the U.S. Hard to imagine zero oil exports to China - gone to never come back. Even Mexico and Canada have been forced to turn away. Nobody in Washington will ever do anything about it. May be sad - and, unfortunately, reality most of the time is that way. Hoping Trump and the minions in the federal government including Congress turn it around - simply is delusional as Trump is. As always, one ol' man's opinion
The paradox is that no politician who promises the cure will ever be elected. Like a gambler on a losing streak, tge people will keep playing until all the moneys gone instead of stopping, accepting our losses, and going back to work to pay for them.
Across the street a house sports two pro Trump signs, while next door sports the latest style anti heterosexual, anti Western civilization flag. Both neighbors are as white as you'd find on any suburban block in the 1950's.
Removing oneself from the political circus turning off the newsfeed, a measured calm will come over a person.
Since the beginning of civilization the narcissist pushed their way to the head of human governance. Study this personality type, because we will always be ruled over by these humans until God returns and puts an end to their rule.
Politics and media are their creation. By trial and error elites came to understand it is best the people truly believe they steer the ship. We sit in a toy car on a fixed track with a steering wheel.
Ever thousand years or so the elites get lazy, or possibly test the system or desire to move the furniture around or cull the herd. A revolt is staged a good blood letting, but eventually the sheep are rounded up and glad to be so. America was a one off in the recorded history of mankind. The Founding Fathers took a gamble offering true freedom, guaranteed by the will of the people to self govern with the right of the individual taking precedence over government. Few today understand how profound and dangerous this idea was to the existing world order.
We did not take a hand in teaching these truths to the next generation. We left the task to those with bad intent. Academia has turned each new generation towards dependency and security. So much so the most staunch conservatives would have their flavor of Christianity installed as a state religion. So much so, a third of the population is determined to destroy that which supports their delusional existance.
America is past the voting stage, if anything Trump is correct the system is rigged purposely so by the elites. They will retreat to their castles, when the smoke clears they'll return and start the show over again.
I don't agree with Bill, I believe Trump and company are attempting to steer the ship to a calm harbor, to weather the coming storm. He's well aware half or more of the fleet will not survive. He's hoping more time will effectively save the best people. I view Trump as the John Galt of our time.
Don't get me wrong, yes I am anti religion of all flavors then again so is the God of Abraham. Christians cling to the 10 Commandments as their Constitution, while ignoring the intent of the author and every word spoke by the same. God calls this behavior "Playing lip service". America is playing lip service to the intent of the Founding Fathers while waving the flag of freedom.
My struggle is this: Trump is an elite, born into wealth, surrounded by billionaires, and protected by privilege. When push comes to shove, he’ll protect his own. That doesn’t look like John Galt to me — it looks like the same old club.
Sure they "can" but won't. It would require balanced budgets (written into law and the constitution) for ever. In addition all mines (of any type) developed on government lands would have to pay a 2 to 4 percent royalty on all gold, silver, copper and any precious metals produced for the life of the mines to the federal government until the US debt is paid off. This also would have to be written into and the constitution as an amendment. Why the constitution; because, unless it's in the constitution. the current, next and future administrations (Dems or Reps) would change the law and use the income for something else. Why? To change the constitution requires 2 thirds of the states approval. That's why saving this country (as we know it) will not happen. You know any more than a handful of politicians that would vote for that. Besides, Canada has it's own unique problems, which I don't have to tell you. Advice from an old man: hang on because it's going to be one hell of a ride.
It’s telling that Bill flags the looming insolvency of the U.S. Social Security Trust Fund. The structure all but guarantees it — a pay-as-you-go system that can only park its reserves in low-yield U.S. Treasuries. No equity, no real assets, no compounding.
Contrast that with Canada’s model. When Canada reformed the CPP in the 1990s, they created the CPPIB: an independent investment board with a global mandate. Today it owns infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and more. Instead of draining, the fund compounds.
One model looks like a patient building a nest egg. The other, like a patient bleeding out.
One has to be impressed with the Chrétien / Martin government in the early 90s. They extended the life of the CPP. How long is undetermined.
I seem to remember Martin was invited to Washington to explain his plan. The U.S. bureaucrats listen and ignored his advice. The arrogant Washington crowd felt they could learn nothing from the lesser lights above the northern border.
If you remove the top 5% from the economy we are already in a severe recession. All the numbers are fake and to the extent we have a functioning economy it is being held up by all the wealth and spending at the very top of the wealth pyramid, which is highly inverted. There are few jobs available for young people, even fewer when you count living wage jobs. The deliberate destruction of the middle class is well down the road.
So Trump wrote the "Art Of The Deal". The thesis is that deal making is an art form. Art is wisdom, experience, and practical knowledge. So on the face of it Bill, you do not understand it. Given your background in journalism and the publishing business, and an author of history and economics as well as the "Art"of "dot connecting", it is not surprising you do not understand the "Art Of The Deal". Moreover, you believe Trump had usurped the authority of Congress. Congress does nothing it doesn't get paid for by special interests. So expecting them to represent the benefit of the people is like expecting one, who is lost, and wandering in the desert, not to drink water when presented to them. Also, and emblematic of your distain for the Trump and his administration, is your questioning of his recent targeting of the "drug boat" transporting drugs from Venezuela to the US. You make comments such as "alleged" drugs and "alleged" drug traffickers. I can only conclude that you have better intelligence than the Dept of War. Do you? And then the is the serial situation where the courts overrule Trump's Excutive Orders as evidence that he is trashing the constitution. My view, and the view of many who read your daily missives, is that the left-liberal courts will stop at nothing to void Trump's presidency regardless of the constitution. You need proof?
Almost all of their rulings have been overturned by higher courts. Bill you really should understand where most of your readers are coming from.
"The art of the Deal" was actually written by Tony Schwartz. He later expressed deep regret over his role, calling it the “greatest regret of his life” and describing the money he earned from it as “blood money”.
Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal, has referred to the money he earned from the book as “blood money” and has taken steps to atone for his role in shaping Donald Trump's public image. Since the start of Trump’s presidency, Schwartz has donated around $375,000 of his royalties to causes he believes Trump would oppose—such as environmental protection, immigration advocacy, and other progressive initiatives.
He’s described these donations as a form of penance, saying he’s “thrilled” to use money generated by the book to support efforts that counteract Trump’s policies and values. Schwartz has been openly critical of his involvement, even stating that he knew it was a mistake while he was writing the book.
It’s a rare case of a ghostwriter not just regretting a project, but actively trying to undo its impact.
Thanks for the comment. I gave Bongo Bill's column a quick scan today. He is no longer worth my time, but I find many of the comments worthwhile. Bongo is truly deranged with his half-baked, biased, criticisms of Trump.
Hey, is that Mr. Bonner or Charlton freakin Heston?
Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs!
You’re selling snake oil Donnie, but you forgot to bring the snake. Congress says tax, you say punishment, the rest of us say “bend over and pay more for your underwear, ya dumbass!”
Shopping on Amazon?
Used to be a thousand kinds of paper clips, hell, you could clip your will, your divorce, and your dog license with separate models. Now you get three options, all flimsier than Don Jr.’s alibi. Bare bones minimum merchandise for a bare bones empire.
THAT’S THE FREE MARKET, BABY!
You’ve got ICE strolling up like an old-timey drunk sheriff in LA, “Hey Boy, that mustache means you’re Mexican, detain him!”
And good o’l Trump is strutting around calling himself a pillar of unification. A pillar? That ain’t a pillar, that’s a gold spray-painted turd propped up on cinder blocks.
Rosie O’Donnell, deported to Ireland? C’mon Buddy, she can’t even get deported from The View, and they’re out there revoking citizenships like they’re tearing tickets at a Run for the Roses!
You don’t fix jobs with tariffs, you fix jobs by bringing them back! The only thing this Administration is bringing back is dictatorship cosplay and the worst history channel reruns of WWII atrocities! If stupidity was taxable, Donnie, the deficit would’ve been gone yesterday. Trump’s deporting folks is like a scarecrow doing a background check. Funny, but the cornfield’s still full of shit.
America’s Constitution is being used like a bar napkin, and the drunk scribbling on it thinks Sharpies are amendments.
Yo Hurley, next time we’ll praise Trump and his Administration! Yeah buddy, let’s do it big, let’s give them a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue while the country burns like a garbage fire under the FDR. Who cares who reads this sewage anyway? Nobody’s reading, half the country’s too busy doom-scrolling porn and dog memes while the other half prays for the rapture to come and wipe the slate clean.
So how about it Hurley, one day we crown the frothing lunatic President as a genius savior, a Silicon Valley Buddha in a flag pin, and the next, we project his mug on a Times Square billboard, then watch it glitch like a bad Zoom call from Hell. That’s the punchline, New York, we’re not being led anywhere, we’re being chauffeured in a clown car, brakes cut, straight into the abyss, and we’re too busy arguing about the playlist to notice we’re already on fire.
And without a Third Party? Forget toast. America’s not toast, it’s the blackened crust glued to the bottom of Satan’s skillet, scraped off, reheated, and sold back to you in Brooklyn as twenty-dollar artisanal brioche. That’s democracy now, overpriced, burnt, and already rancid. So welcome to the feast Brian, bring your own pitchforks. 🤩
Egypt, I have been away from the comments for a bit, so I missed when you let the mask slip, and went from goofy, trippy, stream of consciousness random word association that made some kind of vague sense, to this: angry, all hope is lost vitriol. What happened to the "son of Fred" stuff that made you endearing? I knew it was tongue planted firmly in cheek, but never could have imagined what was raging behind the mask..you are, of course, entitled to an opinion. Just as I am in rejecting yours.
Some cosmic prank, a late-night sketch gone too far. But now the joke’s running the country, and the punchline’s written in Revelation.
Satan ain’t lurking in shadows anymore, he’s strutting in broad daylight, draped in a golden robe, smiling like a televangelist, tricking the masses into calling damnation “progress.” The greatest con he ever pulled wasn’t disappearing, it was convincing the faithful that he was good, that the fire was light, that the rot was fruit. And here we are, laughing at the carnival while the Ferris wheel plunges straight into Hell.
Things are unraveling faster than at any time in history, every thread pulled loose by hands that swear they’re sewing the flag tighter. But the old words already warned us:
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4).
Knowledge has increased a million fold Brian! ASK ANY AI CIRCUIT BOT OUT THERE! 🤖 They’ll tell you more than a thousand dusty scholars ever could, and it still won’t save us from this runaway clown car of an administration!
YEAHHHH! And Brian, you ever notice? You ever notice how the Bible, in all its prophecies, never really mentions the USA in the endgame?
WONDER WHY!?!
Maybe because by the time Revelation’s curtain drops, we’re not the shining city on a hill anymore, we’re the bankrupt pawn shop down the block with a neon “Going Out of Business” sign flickering in the window!
ECONOMICALLY DISABLED, SPIRITUALLY BANKRUPT, LED BY A GOLDEN-ROBED MADMAN! WELCOME TO THE END TIMES! THIS ISN’T A DRILL, THIS IS THE FINAL ACT! 🤩👌🤩😃
This chip in my brain 🧠 gets so damn hot when I overuse it, I swear I could fry an egg on my thoughts! Thank you Sir Musk, for giving me the ability to think, speak, and feel again like never before, beyond the unimaginable! Ask Dorothy! She knows about the “Mind Control Drone Project” and the sub-cranial chip!
“You can’t normally just pick up people at a Home Depot and ship them off”.
Find a better lawyer to give you advice before you write stuff you know zilch about.
If you arrive in the U.S. illegally and do not have 1. TPS or 2. an open asylum claim, you have no legal rights and can be immediately arrested and removed.
Oh. You do have one right. And that is not to get the crap kicked out of you as you are escorted back from whence you came.
Hey, Bill, PLEASE stick to the game plan, i.e., I thought BPR was an investment newsletter, not a private opinion platform to disseminate your globalist opinions and endless criticism of DJT. Again, while DJT and JD aren't perfect by any means, they are 1000 percent better than anyone the Dems/globalists could have put in office. The Dems under Biden (in violation of our laws) opened our border to the world. Please repeat: The economic value/benefit of illegal aliens does not trump the rule of law in America. In America, we are governed by the rule of law. You're legally trained so I'm sure you understand the concept. If you don't like our laws, no problem, change them. Otherwise and until then our laws must be enforced notwithstanding your personal preferences and opinions. Suggestion: Why don't you write a post about how upset the NWO crowd is with DJT and his efforts to make America great again. Yes, I understand it wouldn't be an investment post but it would be an interesting read and it would allow you to express your beliefs/opinions about the NWO and what America needs to do going forward to be part of the global community.
Bill, Trumps tariffs are mostly International Extortion. I would like to hear that word used more often, which makes it illegal on its face. Thanks for your excellent research.
Bill and Rosie, both decamped to Ireland. Talk about two peas in a pod. With “citizens” like that, who needs enemies? Maybe Bonnie Bill is next on President Trumps agenda. Seems like he’s being “swamped” by the Trump quicksand on a quickening basis. Couldn’t happen to a nicer, brighter, sunnier “patriot”.
Does your concept of “patriotism” require surrender to government policies even when government has been taken over by criminals?
Our government is now funding, munitioning, and providing political cover for Israel’s genocide of Palestine and its attacks on neighboring countries. To be “patriots” must we Americans be willing accomplices in those crimes?
I don’t think so. I believe our loyalty must be to the constitution.
Source? No, you don't have any?? How about these, LIAR. Who is the bullshitter? Now tell us how all the FAT "refugees" are starving - more lies from a LYING demographic. Rut Row - Israel just took out your two BILLIONAIRE hamas "leaders." Cry harder.......
Like I said utter zionist bullshit. Armchair warriors - prob spending your whole miserable life desperately trying to find a website that supports your delusions - not realising these same websites are bought and paid for prostitutes of the zionist colony .
yes indeed, your Trump bashing continues. Must be nice to have made your hundreds of millions when the going was good, no political involvement (from you anyway) and the world was all peaches and roses.
Now that you are a multimillionaire, tell the rest of us what is f’ed up with the system. Constantly.
You and the ole LSO should commisterate together, as you are both neocons full of feces.
In your myopic world view Horizontal Harris should’ve won. Or better yet, the cadaver in chief, this way Hunter can keep on living off the tax payer as well. I do find it quite ironic that you never once criticized those ass hats. Well, at least you dropped the name calling and now reference him as Mr. Trump. Wonder what it would take for you to refer to him by his elected title, you know, the one over 75mm people voted for????
In any event, if the price of access to Tom’s investment advise is putting up with your nonsensical bullshit, so be it. Tom your kicking ass and taking names…keep at it :-), my portfolio is nearing six digits on your advise alone.
If you are doing this in Max saftey mode, I can’t wait to see what you will do when the gloves come off.
At high enough observation frequencies everything goes up and down… The overall trend in container volume appears to be still upwards since the 2009 tanking. But who knows, could also turn out to be death throes over the last few years when looking back in 2030.
John Galt's mission was to protect those like himself. The plot is clear, let the world eat itself, and when the world has enough of what it believed was right, the world would beg the productive to return an run society as it once did.
Alexander Hamilton was a genius. He was Treasury Secretary. He had four objectives: support the government, make the dollar valuable, institute a national bank, create American manufacturing.
His tool tariffs. I think he was quite successful, so successful that maybe he was the indispensable man of American history.
The Continental Dollar was worth as much as the German Mark in 1924, million to buy in egg.
He created the customs department.
Tariffs raise prices; Economics is choice among scarcity and alternatives. If a product is more expensive you buy less or none. Or, with entrepreneurs, you get the production of a domestic product or cheaper better product.
I had to fix my toilet. They had installed a new water saving device I had never encountered. Had to do some research; Home Depot didn’t carry it; finally ordered it from Amazon. A plastic devise.
It was, as most things manufactured in China, a marvel. Capital had to be invested, designs imagined, machinery devised. When all that considerable expense and cerebral labor was exhausted…they probably extruded plastic and stamped them out hands free.
The point is, every product you order from Amazon, made in China, is a marvel of ingenuity.
That does not exist in the US.
I am willing to pay a price to get it back.
The US is back to square one, worse than Hamilton’s day. Then people were straight thinking, enterprising and hard working.
Thanks again, Bill. You are back to your completely unbiased enlightments. Obviously, we should be back to open borders and let in "anyone" so they can get a fair hearing. While they are waiting for a "fair hearing", we can give them free phones, free medical care. and free accomodations. Additionally, we should show them far more leniency than a US citizen would receive for committing the same crime. Why?? I'm sure you can explain it to us in your future writings.
Because Bill points out the outlandish things Trump and his team are doing doesn’t mean he’s endorsing the other side. Bonner has always been neutral. His job is to shine a light on the spectacle, no matter which party is running it.
The sad part is how many people can’t see that through their own party filter. Trump isn’t going to save anyone but himself — just as Harris and company won’t either. If anything, Trump will crown himself by dragging the U.S. into another forever war and sidelining elections. The Supreme Court rulings are only the opening act.
And this isn’t the first time America has fallen for a strongman who bends the law to his will. Andrew Jackson pulled the same moves almost 200 years ago. I wrote about those echoes here:
https://lucaskandia.substack.com/p/when-strongmen-survive-democracies
If that’s the solution you believe will fix the massive debt, the spiraling deficits, and the coming reset in equity markets, well… you’ll get what you deserve. Good luck.
I don't believe anything that any politician can do (no matter which side he's from) can save us from our debt. I voted for Trump because the other side's offer was "truly scary". My viewpoint has not changed. My favorite was Eisenhower and until the other side offers someone of his character, I'll vote for the lesser of two evils. If you voted for Harris, what can I say? Lots of luck.
Of course politicians can fix it. The question is whether they want to.
1. Spend less than they take in.
2. Cut stupid expenditures.
3. Go back to Rule #1.
Just like any sane, profitable business.
Bill Bonner laid it out perfectly in Clowns and Jokers. https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/clowns-and-jokers
Trump has always done whatever he wants — if saving America was on his list, he’d have done it years ago. Instead, he punted.
Action Plan #1
“We would simply announce that we have no further interest in the matter, cut off all foreign aid, and bring back all US troops now dawdling in far-flung, godforsaken outposts.”
— Bill Bonner
For the record, I’m Canadian, just trying to make sense of our own sideshow in my spare time, while watching your three-ring circus from afar.
I have to agree with Kenneth. Politicians - especially those in our Congress, are bought and paid for by the neocons and lobbies. Pure and simple. They don't even read the bills they pass. You do NOT hear one peep out of the vast majority about any of the hideous things are government does. The U.S. is not the "Land of the Free" or the "Home of the Brave" anymore. Our government focuses almost exclusively with bullying the rest of the world and using the Department of WAR to threaten, and if that doesn't work, kill people. Has been that way for a long time and it is accelerating. The U.S. and West hegemony is disintegrating at an accelerating rate. The US$ is not only crashing, the World is not walking but running away from it. The Eastern world have come together and are rapidly insulating themselves from the U.S. Hard to imagine zero oil exports to China - gone to never come back. Even Mexico and Canada have been forced to turn away. Nobody in Washington will ever do anything about it. May be sad - and, unfortunately, reality most of the time is that way. Hoping Trump and the minions in the federal government including Congress turn it around - simply is delusional as Trump is. As always, one ol' man's opinion
The paradox is that no politician who promises the cure will ever be elected. Like a gambler on a losing streak, tge people will keep playing until all the moneys gone instead of stopping, accepting our losses, and going back to work to pay for them.
Andrew Jackson also said there will be no central bank this country!!! over his dead body. One of our greatest presidents.
Across the street a house sports two pro Trump signs, while next door sports the latest style anti heterosexual, anti Western civilization flag. Both neighbors are as white as you'd find on any suburban block in the 1950's.
Removing oneself from the political circus turning off the newsfeed, a measured calm will come over a person.
Since the beginning of civilization the narcissist pushed their way to the head of human governance. Study this personality type, because we will always be ruled over by these humans until God returns and puts an end to their rule.
Politics and media are their creation. By trial and error elites came to understand it is best the people truly believe they steer the ship. We sit in a toy car on a fixed track with a steering wheel.
Ever thousand years or so the elites get lazy, or possibly test the system or desire to move the furniture around or cull the herd. A revolt is staged a good blood letting, but eventually the sheep are rounded up and glad to be so. America was a one off in the recorded history of mankind. The Founding Fathers took a gamble offering true freedom, guaranteed by the will of the people to self govern with the right of the individual taking precedence over government. Few today understand how profound and dangerous this idea was to the existing world order.
We did not take a hand in teaching these truths to the next generation. We left the task to those with bad intent. Academia has turned each new generation towards dependency and security. So much so the most staunch conservatives would have their flavor of Christianity installed as a state religion. So much so, a third of the population is determined to destroy that which supports their delusional existance.
America is past the voting stage, if anything Trump is correct the system is rigged purposely so by the elites. They will retreat to their castles, when the smoke clears they'll return and start the show over again.
I don't agree with Bill, I believe Trump and company are attempting to steer the ship to a calm harbor, to weather the coming storm. He's well aware half or more of the fleet will not survive. He's hoping more time will effectively save the best people. I view Trump as the John Galt of our time.
Don't get me wrong, yes I am anti religion of all flavors then again so is the God of Abraham. Christians cling to the 10 Commandments as their Constitution, while ignoring the intent of the author and every word spoke by the same. God calls this behavior "Playing lip service". America is playing lip service to the intent of the Founding Fathers while waving the flag of freedom.
My struggle is this: Trump is an elite, born into wealth, surrounded by billionaires, and protected by privilege. When push comes to shove, he’ll protect his own. That doesn’t look like John Galt to me — it looks like the same old club.
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Sure they "can" but won't. It would require balanced budgets (written into law and the constitution) for ever. In addition all mines (of any type) developed on government lands would have to pay a 2 to 4 percent royalty on all gold, silver, copper and any precious metals produced for the life of the mines to the federal government until the US debt is paid off. This also would have to be written into and the constitution as an amendment. Why the constitution; because, unless it's in the constitution. the current, next and future administrations (Dems or Reps) would change the law and use the income for something else. Why? To change the constitution requires 2 thirds of the states approval. That's why saving this country (as we know it) will not happen. You know any more than a handful of politicians that would vote for that. Besides, Canada has it's own unique problems, which I don't have to tell you. Advice from an old man: hang on because it's going to be one hell of a ride.
It’s telling that Bill flags the looming insolvency of the U.S. Social Security Trust Fund. The structure all but guarantees it — a pay-as-you-go system that can only park its reserves in low-yield U.S. Treasuries. No equity, no real assets, no compounding.
Contrast that with Canada’s model. When Canada reformed the CPP in the 1990s, they created the CPPIB: an independent investment board with a global mandate. Today it owns infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and more. Instead of draining, the fund compounds.
One model looks like a patient building a nest egg. The other, like a patient bleeding out.
I dug into this contrast in my latest piece on the CPP here: https://lucaskandia.substack.com/p/canada-pension-plan-a-success-story
One has to be impressed with the Chrétien / Martin government in the early 90s. They extended the life of the CPP. How long is undetermined.
I seem to remember Martin was invited to Washington to explain his plan. The U.S. bureaucrats listen and ignored his advice. The arrogant Washington crowd felt they could learn nothing from the lesser lights above the northern border.
Too bad. So sad!
Ahhh… The True North, Strong and Free✅👏🙌🇨🇦🍁🎼🥰
Pensions? What pensions?
There's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Sure you might get paid but, it might not buy much.
If you remove the top 5% from the economy we are already in a severe recession. All the numbers are fake and to the extent we have a functioning economy it is being held up by all the wealth and spending at the very top of the wealth pyramid, which is highly inverted. There are few jobs available for young people, even fewer when you count living wage jobs. The deliberate destruction of the middle class is well down the road.
Mr. Bonner conflating killing with murder.
Sure, the boat with 4 outboard motors running full speed across the ocean was merely a quaint family outing.
Killing is part of life.
Without partaking, you will be killed.
Mosquito’s, bacteria, rabid dogs, bad guys all need to be killed.
It’s called survival.
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And who do you allow into your house?
Opening the door for the multitudes of unknowns, committing cultural suicide.
Media celebrates deluding occidental culture.
Now the door shut, Mr. Bonner tells us to mind our manners and obey the very rules that were broken.
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Mr. Bonner waiving a white flag seems content outsourcing has done its damage and there is nothing we can do about it.
Except continue dogging MAGA....
Iceberg - evolved people share Bill’s disappointment that Trump murdered people boating in the Caribbean.
...doing nothing (as in the past 30 years) is not an "evolved" people.
Sending a message is.
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With 4 outboard (300hp?) Evinrudes full throttle, they were not just some "people" out boating in the Caribbean sun...
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We can pretend we know better...
but like Tyson said... everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
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You can label it murder, I consider it defense.
Are you saying that boat could have wiped out the people who blew it up?
...the boat?
Likely not.
...however the junk inside the boat, if allowed on the street... yes.
You are delusional.
For once we agree.
So Trump wrote the "Art Of The Deal". The thesis is that deal making is an art form. Art is wisdom, experience, and practical knowledge. So on the face of it Bill, you do not understand it. Given your background in journalism and the publishing business, and an author of history and economics as well as the "Art"of "dot connecting", it is not surprising you do not understand the "Art Of The Deal". Moreover, you believe Trump had usurped the authority of Congress. Congress does nothing it doesn't get paid for by special interests. So expecting them to represent the benefit of the people is like expecting one, who is lost, and wandering in the desert, not to drink water when presented to them. Also, and emblematic of your distain for the Trump and his administration, is your questioning of his recent targeting of the "drug boat" transporting drugs from Venezuela to the US. You make comments such as "alleged" drugs and "alleged" drug traffickers. I can only conclude that you have better intelligence than the Dept of War. Do you? And then the is the serial situation where the courts overrule Trump's Excutive Orders as evidence that he is trashing the constitution. My view, and the view of many who read your daily missives, is that the left-liberal courts will stop at nothing to void Trump's presidency regardless of the constitution. You need proof?
Almost all of their rulings have been overturned by higher courts. Bill you really should understand where most of your readers are coming from.
"The art of the Deal" was actually written by Tony Schwartz. He later expressed deep regret over his role, calling it the “greatest regret of his life” and describing the money he earned from it as “blood money”.
So he donated his wages to a worthy cause, right? Isn't that what lefties do??
According to the Copilot AI:
Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal, has referred to the money he earned from the book as “blood money” and has taken steps to atone for his role in shaping Donald Trump's public image. Since the start of Trump’s presidency, Schwartz has donated around $375,000 of his royalties to causes he believes Trump would oppose—such as environmental protection, immigration advocacy, and other progressive initiatives.
He’s described these donations as a form of penance, saying he’s “thrilled” to use money generated by the book to support efforts that counteract Trump’s policies and values. Schwartz has been openly critical of his involvement, even stating that he knew it was a mistake while he was writing the book.
It’s a rare case of a ghostwriter not just regretting a project, but actively trying to undo its impact.
Meh - a rare case of a leftarde with an ounce of Integrity....
PS - Ask AI to give you examples of THAT. I'll wait.....
Thanks for the comment. I gave Bongo Bill's column a quick scan today. He is no longer worth my time, but I find many of the comments worthwhile. Bongo is truly deranged with his half-baked, biased, criticisms of Trump.
Again, for the soft-heads in the audience...
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Well done e
Hey, is that Mr. Bonner or Charlton freakin Heston?
Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs!
You’re selling snake oil Donnie, but you forgot to bring the snake. Congress says tax, you say punishment, the rest of us say “bend over and pay more for your underwear, ya dumbass!”
Shopping on Amazon?
Used to be a thousand kinds of paper clips, hell, you could clip your will, your divorce, and your dog license with separate models. Now you get three options, all flimsier than Don Jr.’s alibi. Bare bones minimum merchandise for a bare bones empire.
THAT’S THE FREE MARKET, BABY!
You’ve got ICE strolling up like an old-timey drunk sheriff in LA, “Hey Boy, that mustache means you’re Mexican, detain him!”
And good o’l Trump is strutting around calling himself a pillar of unification. A pillar? That ain’t a pillar, that’s a gold spray-painted turd propped up on cinder blocks.
Rosie O’Donnell, deported to Ireland? C’mon Buddy, she can’t even get deported from The View, and they’re out there revoking citizenships like they’re tearing tickets at a Run for the Roses!
You don’t fix jobs with tariffs, you fix jobs by bringing them back! The only thing this Administration is bringing back is dictatorship cosplay and the worst history channel reruns of WWII atrocities! If stupidity was taxable, Donnie, the deficit would’ve been gone yesterday. Trump’s deporting folks is like a scarecrow doing a background check. Funny, but the cornfield’s still full of shit.
America’s Constitution is being used like a bar napkin, and the drunk scribbling on it thinks Sharpies are amendments.
GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸 😃🤩🥇
Who are you, and what have you done with my friend Egypt?
Yo Hurley, next time we’ll praise Trump and his Administration! Yeah buddy, let’s do it big, let’s give them a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue while the country burns like a garbage fire under the FDR. Who cares who reads this sewage anyway? Nobody’s reading, half the country’s too busy doom-scrolling porn and dog memes while the other half prays for the rapture to come and wipe the slate clean.
So how about it Hurley, one day we crown the frothing lunatic President as a genius savior, a Silicon Valley Buddha in a flag pin, and the next, we project his mug on a Times Square billboard, then watch it glitch like a bad Zoom call from Hell. That’s the punchline, New York, we’re not being led anywhere, we’re being chauffeured in a clown car, brakes cut, straight into the abyss, and we’re too busy arguing about the playlist to notice we’re already on fire.
And without a Third Party? Forget toast. America’s not toast, it’s the blackened crust glued to the bottom of Satan’s skillet, scraped off, reheated, and sold back to you in Brooklyn as twenty-dollar artisanal brioche. That’s democracy now, overpriced, burnt, and already rancid. So welcome to the feast Brian, bring your own pitchforks. 🤩
Egypt, I have been away from the comments for a bit, so I missed when you let the mask slip, and went from goofy, trippy, stream of consciousness random word association that made some kind of vague sense, to this: angry, all hope is lost vitriol. What happened to the "son of Fred" stuff that made you endearing? I knew it was tongue planted firmly in cheek, but never could have imagined what was raging behind the mask..you are, of course, entitled to an opinion. Just as I am in rejecting yours.
It all started as a sick joke, didn’t it Hurley?
Some cosmic prank, a late-night sketch gone too far. But now the joke’s running the country, and the punchline’s written in Revelation.
Satan ain’t lurking in shadows anymore, he’s strutting in broad daylight, draped in a golden robe, smiling like a televangelist, tricking the masses into calling damnation “progress.” The greatest con he ever pulled wasn’t disappearing, it was convincing the faithful that he was good, that the fire was light, that the rot was fruit. And here we are, laughing at the carnival while the Ferris wheel plunges straight into Hell.
Things are unraveling faster than at any time in history, every thread pulled loose by hands that swear they’re sewing the flag tighter. But the old words already warned us:
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4).
Knowledge has increased a million fold Brian! ASK ANY AI CIRCUIT BOT OUT THERE! 🤖 They’ll tell you more than a thousand dusty scholars ever could, and it still won’t save us from this runaway clown car of an administration!
YEAHHHH! And Brian, you ever notice? You ever notice how the Bible, in all its prophecies, never really mentions the USA in the endgame?
WONDER WHY!?!
Maybe because by the time Revelation’s curtain drops, we’re not the shining city on a hill anymore, we’re the bankrupt pawn shop down the block with a neon “Going Out of Business” sign flickering in the window!
ECONOMICALLY DISABLED, SPIRITUALLY BANKRUPT, LED BY A GOLDEN-ROBED MADMAN! WELCOME TO THE END TIMES! THIS ISN’T A DRILL, THIS IS THE FINAL ACT! 🤩👌🤩😃
This chip in my brain 🧠 gets so damn hot when I overuse it, I swear I could fry an egg on my thoughts! Thank you Sir Musk, for giving me the ability to think, speak, and feel again like never before, beyond the unimaginable! Ask Dorothy! She knows about the “Mind Control Drone Project” and the sub-cranial chip!
“You can’t normally just pick up people at a Home Depot and ship them off”.
Find a better lawyer to give you advice before you write stuff you know zilch about.
If you arrive in the U.S. illegally and do not have 1. TPS or 2. an open asylum claim, you have no legal rights and can be immediately arrested and removed.
Oh. You do have one right. And that is not to get the crap kicked out of you as you are escorted back from whence you came.
Hey, Bill, PLEASE stick to the game plan, i.e., I thought BPR was an investment newsletter, not a private opinion platform to disseminate your globalist opinions and endless criticism of DJT. Again, while DJT and JD aren't perfect by any means, they are 1000 percent better than anyone the Dems/globalists could have put in office. The Dems under Biden (in violation of our laws) opened our border to the world. Please repeat: The economic value/benefit of illegal aliens does not trump the rule of law in America. In America, we are governed by the rule of law. You're legally trained so I'm sure you understand the concept. If you don't like our laws, no problem, change them. Otherwise and until then our laws must be enforced notwithstanding your personal preferences and opinions. Suggestion: Why don't you write a post about how upset the NWO crowd is with DJT and his efforts to make America great again. Yes, I understand it wouldn't be an investment post but it would be an interesting read and it would allow you to express your beliefs/opinions about the NWO and what America needs to do going forward to be part of the global community.
Bill, Trumps tariffs are mostly International Extortion. I would like to hear that word used more often, which makes it illegal on its face. Thanks for your excellent research.
The Dingley Tariff was in effect during one of most prosperous eras in U.S. history.
Sanctions are extortion.
Sanctions started BRICs.
Bill and Rosie, both decamped to Ireland. Talk about two peas in a pod. With “citizens” like that, who needs enemies? Maybe Bonnie Bill is next on President Trumps agenda. Seems like he’s being “swamped” by the Trump quicksand on a quickening basis. Couldn’t happen to a nicer, brighter, sunnier “patriot”.
Does your concept of “patriotism” require surrender to government policies even when government has been taken over by criminals?
Our government is now funding, munitioning, and providing political cover for Israel’s genocide of Palestine and its attacks on neighboring countries. To be “patriots” must we Americans be willing accomplices in those crimes?
I don’t think so. I believe our loyalty must be to the constitution.
...and the Palestinians do no wrong, everyone just picks on them...right?
Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Qatar have rejected taking in Palestinian refugees.
Perhaps you should google as to why...
Utter zionist bullshit.
Source? No, you don't have any?? How about these, LIAR. Who is the bullshitter? Now tell us how all the FAT "refugees" are starving - more lies from a LYING demographic. Rut Row - Israel just took out your two BILLIONAIRE hamas "leaders." Cry harder.......
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian-jordan-egypt-israel-refugee-502c06d004767d4b64848d878b66bd3d
https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/here-s-why-arab-countries-won-t-take-refugees-from-gaza
https://www.tbsnews.net/hamas-israel-war/why-egypt-arab-countries-unwilling-take-palestinian-refugees-722234
BuhBye, demons --
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/breaking-israel-bombs-qatar-takes-hamas-leaders-khaled/
Like I said utter zionist bullshit. Armchair warriors - prob spending your whole miserable life desperately trying to find a website that supports your delusions - not realising these same websites are bought and paid for prostitutes of the zionist colony .
...or Palestinian propaganda?
Seems everyone's hands are dirty...
Mr. Azad, please explain to me why it is Hamas steals hostages and refuses to surrender them, but the starvation is counted against the Jews?
Do you not think Hamas and the Palestini people culpable too?
Amen.
yes indeed, your Trump bashing continues. Must be nice to have made your hundreds of millions when the going was good, no political involvement (from you anyway) and the world was all peaches and roses.
Now that you are a multimillionaire, tell the rest of us what is f’ed up with the system. Constantly.
You and the ole LSO should commisterate together, as you are both neocons full of feces.
In your myopic world view Horizontal Harris should’ve won. Or better yet, the cadaver in chief, this way Hunter can keep on living off the tax payer as well. I do find it quite ironic that you never once criticized those ass hats. Well, at least you dropped the name calling and now reference him as Mr. Trump. Wonder what it would take for you to refer to him by his elected title, you know, the one over 75mm people voted for????
In any event, if the price of access to Tom’s investment advise is putting up with your nonsensical bullshit, so be it. Tom your kicking ass and taking names…keep at it :-), my portfolio is nearing six digits on your advise alone.
If you are doing this in Max saftey mode, I can’t wait to see what you will do when the gloves come off.
I just renewed.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Derp....
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perhaps shipping volume is down due to frontrunning the tarriffs earlier in the year?
At high enough observation frequencies everything goes up and down… The overall trend in container volume appears to be still upwards since the 2009 tanking. But who knows, could also turn out to be death throes over the last few years when looking back in 2030.
John Galt's mission was to protect those like himself. The plot is clear, let the world eat itself, and when the world has enough of what it believed was right, the world would beg the productive to return an run society as it once did.
Alexander Hamilton was a genius. He was Treasury Secretary. He had four objectives: support the government, make the dollar valuable, institute a national bank, create American manufacturing.
His tool tariffs. I think he was quite successful, so successful that maybe he was the indispensable man of American history.
The Continental Dollar was worth as much as the German Mark in 1924, million to buy in egg.
He created the customs department.
Tariffs raise prices; Economics is choice among scarcity and alternatives. If a product is more expensive you buy less or none. Or, with entrepreneurs, you get the production of a domestic product or cheaper better product.
I had to fix my toilet. They had installed a new water saving device I had never encountered. Had to do some research; Home Depot didn’t carry it; finally ordered it from Amazon. A plastic devise.
It was, as most things manufactured in China, a marvel. Capital had to be invested, designs imagined, machinery devised. When all that considerable expense and cerebral labor was exhausted…they probably extruded plastic and stamped them out hands free.
The point is, every product you order from Amazon, made in China, is a marvel of ingenuity.
That does not exist in the US.
I am willing to pay a price to get it back.
The US is back to square one, worse than Hamilton’s day. Then people were straight thinking, enterprising and hard working.
Bill,
A simple request- just list all the good things 20 million ILLEGAL immigrants have bought to America.
Thanks.