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What a beautiful day it is in Paris. It’s snowing. The streets are white. And the street lights, shop lights, and automobile lights make everything glow. It would be a nice morning to sit in a café and drink a cup of coffee. But we don’t have time for that. We’re ...
Bill Bonner's Daily Essays
You are on page 1 of 15Ouzilly, France US government takes over the economy... Not much news. Markets were closed yesterday. This morning, stocks in Asia are up. Ah... a new year... new hope... This year has got to be better than 2008. It couldn’t be worse, right? Maybe. But a friend ...
Paris, France The worst is over. At least in the Northern Hemisphere. Yesterday marked the earth’s greatest tilt away the sun, leaving the northern latitudes in darkness for much of the day. Here in Paris, for example, it was practically dark at 4PM yesterday... ...
It seems simple enough to us. Almost too simple. Birds gotta fly. Fish gotta swim. The feds gotta print money. Why? Because there isn’t any other good way for them to get it. And because the economy is getting worse...not better. The feds feel they have to “do ...
Free Bernie Madoff! Going... going... Gono..! And more! The press… investors... regulators... they’re all howling for Bernie Madoff’s head. Of course, we wouldn’t mind if they lynched him. Still, he’s a hero to us. He’s the Rod Blogojevich of money – showing us ...
As we suspected, the Fed went for broke yesterday. We predict it will work: we will go broke! “Fed effectively cuts its key rate to zero,” is how today’s International Herald Tribune brings the news. This year has been a 1929 rerun. The feds don’t want to see the ...
London, England Today could be a big day. The Fed could make history – cutting rates down to zero. So far, the feds have tried trillions worth of stimulation techniques. But the economy seems strangely indifferent. Unresponsive. Frigid, even. Every week brings ...
London, England The ground is giving way beneath our feet: Sell the dollar...Sell Treasuries. People still stand their ground...they do not panic. They do the right thing. But then, they go into work – but find they have no jobs. They look at their pension account ...
Yesterday brought another almost 200 point drop in the Dow. Gold rose $17. What’s going on? Reuters reports: “ The "nasty" U.S. recession will tighten its grip next year as unemployment rises and weak home and stock prices imperil consumers, finance firms and ...
Los Angeles, California (At least, we think it is Thursday...) The rally seems to be continuing. The Dow rose 70 points yesterday. Oil slid up to $44. Commodities went up too. And gold shot up $34 – to $808. The markets must be “looking ahead”...right over the ...
Bill Bonner's Daily Essays
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