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London, England We are thinking about retiring. Taking up cattle ranching maybe. Or maybe becoming a hermit. Those are the kind of thoughts that must have passed through millions of minds yesterday. “The Reckoning...” the New York Times is calling it. Yesterday, ...
Bill Bonner's Daily Essays
You are on page 1 of 10Paris, France “The boom years are over...” Speaking was a spokesperson for Vienna tourism board... 20% fewer Americans are visiting the city. But almost anyone might have said the same thing. The boom in construction has been over for nearly two years... The boom ...
London, England It’s the end of the world as we know it – and we feel fine. Really. Usually, markets stumble along, day after day. But occasionally, their hearts start racing and their palms sweat. They stop sleeping at night and begin pacing the room. When this ...
“It’s pretty much all out war,” said the chief financial economist at a large Japanese bank. Yesterday, the battle was hot and heavy. By 8 PM last evening the financial media was in a panic. An attack of stock market panics was rolling over the world. Japan was ...
London, England Inflation delenda est. Viva deflation! And now Congress has passed a bailout bill...the fix is in...everyone will be protected...spared...saved. Inflation is going away. Prosperity is just around the corner. Hallelujah! But wait... Where’s the ...
Word on the street is that the pols are about finished Christmas treeing the bailout bill. The House of Representatives prepares to cast its historic vote today. Here at the Daily Reckoning...we stand back...aghast...agog...paralyzed by the whole spectacle... from ...
Paris, France The fix is in! Well...the hacks came through, just like Churchill said they would. At least the hacks in the US Senate. The Senate voted last night to burden the entire nation with Wall Street’s mistakes. Only a handful of Senators dared oppose the ...
Paris, France In the crash of ’29 Winston Churchill, who just happened to be in New York at the time, reported: “A gentleman cast himself down 15 storeys and was dashed to pieces.” This past weekend a London banker “haunted by the pressures of dealing with the ...
London, England Is our “Crash Alert” flag still on the mast? Yes it is... “Stocks dive on bail-out rejection,” says the headline on today’s Financial Times. “Panic grips world’s markets,” says The Guardian. “Staring into the abyss,” shouts the Daily Telegraph. ...
London, England Everything is happening just as it should – alas! Now the Europeans are getting into the act – albeit only in a minor, supporting role. Fortis – a huge Belgian/Dutch financial company – is going bust, says today’s paper. And public officials of at ...
Bill Bonner's Daily Essays
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