Bill Bonner

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• Alpha Dogs

  Published 30 March 2007 | viewed 4,817 times

  God must love typical investors; he created so many of them. But he cursed the poor yahoos to mediocrity. They can't get 'alpha' (above market…

• Loans from Hell

  Published 16 March 2007 | viewed 6,623 times

  "Credit issues are there but they are contained." - Hank Paulson, March 6, 2007 You can take the temper of an era by looking to…

• Alphas, Betas, Scamps AND Scalawags

  Published 09 March 2007 | viewed 4,431 times

  Probably the greatest disappointment to a modern man over the age of 50 comes when he looks in the mirror. We say that not as…

• Normal Markets

  Published 02 March 2007 | viewed 5,410 times

  "You can't always get what you want, but...you get what you need." - The Rolling Stones "Bernanke's words lift investor sentiment," said the headline in…

• Confessions of a Newsletter Man

  Published 02 February 2007 | viewed 4,200 times

  Was ever there a fairer métier than ours? The poor carpenter risks cutting his fingers or banging his knee. The used car salesman's hearing goes…

• The Highway Men

  Published 28 January 2007 | viewed 5,429 times

  "Behind every great fortune lies a crime." - Balzac You can tell a leopard by its spots. But can you tell a boom by its…

• Real Heroes

  Published 05 January 2007 | viewed 4,647 times

  And one was a soldier, and one was a priest, And one was slain by a fierce wild beast... they were all of them saints…

• Liars' Loans

  Published 16 September 2006 | viewed 4,880 times

  On Tuesday came news that the house of Goldman continues to prosper. The company announced record profits. It also announced that its 25,647 employees would…

• Festering Dudgeon

  Published 09 September 2006 | viewed 7,061 times

  We end this week in a state of low dudgeon. Everyone we ever heard of who was in a state of dudgeon was in a…

• I, Greenspan

  Published 22 January 2006 | viewed 4,987 times

  I, Alan Aurifericus Nefarious Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, holder of the Medal of Freedom, Knight of the British Empire, member of the…

• The Importance of Doing Nothing

  Published 17 September 2005 | viewed 6,447 times

  The nation's newspapers and TV blabbermouths have been in full-throated yelp against inactivity. In the wake of the New Orleans inundation, they surf for sound…

• Good-Bye, Ruby Tuesday

  Published 15 July 2005 | viewed 6,268 times

  Today, we write about the difference between price and value...and about an amazing summer 40 years ago. Forty years and two days ago, Lyndon Johnson…

• Fin De Bubble

  Published 24 June 2005 | viewed 4,805 times

  The heat came down on London yesterday like a hot iron. It took the wrinkles out, leaving the whole city as flat and limp as…

• A Thousand Clowns

  Published 03 May 2005 | viewed 6,255 times

  Economics has been called the "dismal science." But even that is merely fraud and flattery. Economics is dismal, but it isn't science. At its best…

• Globalization and its Discontents

  Published 23 April 2005 | viewed 4,923 times

  It is widely believed that the Chinese are eating our lunch. Their factories hum and belch smoke, while ours go silent and send up weeds…

• Greenspan's Whopper

  Published 11 February 2005 | viewed 4,224 times

  "You are wasting your life and your talents writing about Alan Greenspan every day," said an old friend. For years, we have been working on…

• The Money Pit

  Published 14 January 2005 | viewed 3,176 times

  A real alternative: Investing in a chateau in Normandy The financial media is full of bores and quacks - just like Congress. But all the…

• Under the Top

  Published 07 January 2005 | viewed 3,015 times

  Kiplinger magazine aimed a soft glove at us. Here, we pause to see what else is between the covers of the January issue...and look for…

• Sitting on Bayonettes

  Published 28 May 2004 | viewed 4,022 times

  There is a time for everything. Yesterday, we meant to tell you - perhaps we did - about our conversation with a young French analyst.…

• Whole Lot of 'Flation Going On

  Published 16 April 2004 | viewed 2,959 times

  Something awful is afoot, we think. But what? In almost every direction we look, we see people going about their business as if nothing were…