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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. 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. Since 1999, Bill has been a daily contributor and the driving force behind The Daily Reckoning. Bill's latest  book Dice Have No Memory: Big Bets and Bad Economics from Paris to the Pampas was released in April 2011. 

  1. Daily Reckoning

    Correction Fighting: How Feds Prolong Economic Depressions • May 16, 2012

    “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate… it will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.” — Andrew Mellon Down, …Read more…

  2. Daily Reckoning

    What Happens When the World Economy “Goes Japan” • May 15, 2012

    The Dow sinking. Gold sinking. Oil sinking. Copper sinking. Yields sinking. We struggled with this, Dear Reader. We meditated. We prayed. We drank heavily. And finally…we overcame the rank desire to say: “We told you so!” As you know, Martin Wolf, of The Financial Times, is the voice of The Economics Establishment. All that is …Read more…

  3. Daily Reckoning

    The Suspicious Growth of the Financial Industry • May 14, 2012

    Societies become more complex as they age. Each challenge…or opportunity…is met with a new rig of some sort. A tax. A regulation. An organizational fix. As time goes by, these fixes act like friction…they slow the machine. They make it hard to move…inflexible and unresponsive. And over time, more people gain access to a fix …Read more…

  4. Daily Reckoning

    When Cash is King: Investing with Risk on the Downside • May 14, 2012

    China is falling apart. Bond yields are falling. Copper is sinking. Oil is sliding. US stocks, too, slipped all last week. Even gold…that old stalwart friend…turned its back on us last week, closing the week at $1,585. Oh, dear, dear reader…everything is giving way. What can we hold fast to? Can we count on the …Read more…

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    Rearranging the New World Order • May 11, 2012

    The new Japan is China. It’s an export economy with too much capacity…like Japan in ’89. The new Greece is Spain. It’s got mortgage debt up the kazoo… The new Ireland is the old Ireland. Yes, Ireland is now exporting people again…at the fastest rate since the 19th century. Our old friend Jim Davidson says …Read more…

  6. Daily Reckoning

    Taxing the Rich to Fix the Economy • May 10, 2012

    Gold down below $1,600! Is the bull market in gold finally over? Nah…let’s change the subject. Today, our hearts go out to the poor 1%… Yes, dear reader, they’re blamed for the crisis… They’re reviled, calumnied, and criticized… They’re hunted by the taxmen… And now they are being shunned by the very institutions they most …Read more…

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    GDP Growth: The Civic Duty of Every US Consumer • May 9, 2012

    No panic on Wall Street — yet. Gold still over $1,600. But watch out. Our hunch is that when people come to their senses…they will run for the exits. Europe’s shifting from austerity to “growth”…which really means more debt. America’s growth is phony — with fewer jobs today than when the ’08 recession began. More …Read more…