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Bill Bonner

Since founding Agora Inc. in 1979, Bill Bonner has found success and garnered camaraderie in numerous communities and industries.  A man of many talents, his entrepreneurial savvy, unique writings, philanthropic undertakings, and preservationist activities have all been recognized and awarded by some of America’s most respected authorities. Along with Addison Wiggin, his friend and colleague, Bill has written two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. Both works have been critically acclaimed and internationally recognized. With political journalist Lila Rajiva, he wrote his third New York Times best-selling book, Mobs, Messiahs and Markets, which offers concrete advice on how to avoid the public spectacle of modern finance.

Human Population Bubble and Regression to the Mean

Nov 19th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Economics, Featured
Oh, where to begin, dear reader? We have something important on our mind... Where is the real bubble? Is it a bubble in commodities? Or a bubble in the people who buy them? By the charts ye shall know them — bubbles, that is. The lines roll along nicely, calmly, along ...read more


Debt Is Dangerous, Especially of the Government Kind

Nov 4th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Earthlings are all convinced that a financial crisis of cosmic proportions befell the planet last fall. Had the authorities failed to act with determination and speed, it would have been the end of the world. In the popular mind the politicians have saved capitalism from its own excesses. Our views are ...read more


Macroeconomics for the Keynesian Dummies in Government

Oct 26th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
"He who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing." The quote comes from Ben Franklin. But it was recalled to us neither by America's president, nor Britain's Prime Minister. Instead, the Telegraph in London reported it from the mouth of Cheng Siwei, a "top member of the Communist hierarchy." What goes around comes around. The ...read more


After Gods, Heroes and Gold Comes the Age of Lint

Oct 9th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
When Ben Bernanke gave his speech to the London School of Economics, our reporter was on the scene. Terry Easton put a tough question to America's central banker: aren't your interventions just making the situation worse, he wanted to know. Amid the blah...blah...blah...of Bernanke's response was this: "The tendency of financial systems ...read more


Bernanke to Keep Blocking the Free Market

Sep 1st, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Damned if he does; damned if he doesn't. Last week, Ben Bernanke got the nod for another stint as head of the world's most important central bank. Yes, he completely misunderstood the implications of the hugely negative US trade balance, believing that America did the world a favor by spending its ...read more


The Political Phase and the Death of Nations

Aug 26th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
The United States is in the third and fatal stage of a great country’s life-cycle – the political stage. In this stage, money and power migrate from the financial community to the political community. The politicians get away with taking trillions out of the productive economy and spending them on ...read more


The Worldwide Crack-Up Boom

Aug 7th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
A kiss is still a kiss…and a bubble is still a bubble. When a kiss is over, it’s over. When a bubble pops…well…that’s all she wrote! All kisses end—even the wettest “French” kisses. And so do all bubbles—even sloppy mega-bubbles of liquidity. “This one will be no exception,” we remember thinking ...read more


Romulus, Remus, Stimulus: A Brief History of Monetary Madness

Jul 27th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Those whom the gods would destroy are first granted stimulus. When a man wins the lottery, for example, it has a stimulating effect on everyone around him. He usually spends the money quickly - often even before he gets it. But no matter how much he wins, he is usually ...read more


Treasury Bond Avalanche

May 29th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Illusions pile up... They're sure to come down sooner or later. Like snow at high altitudes, the central banks' new money is piling up. As reported last week, all the world's major central banks have turned on their snow machines. The U.S. Federal Reserve has been authorized to "print" $1.75 trillion ...read more


How Unions and Governments Destroy Businesses

May 7th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
In the newspapers there is much discussion of what General Motors should do. This discussion has gone on for many years. Until now, it was a conversation carried on by serious analysts and auto industry experts. They all said the same thing: GM needed to clear out its management, dump ...read more