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Bill Bonner

Bill is the author of the acclaimed free daily email, The Daily Reckoning, and two best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century, and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis.

He is also the co-author (along with Lila Rajiva) of Mobs, Messiahs and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics.

To find out more about Bill and what makes him tick, read an in-depth interview with him here.

Economy

Bill Bonner: I have a dream…

…but also a wife, says Bill Bonner. And thankfully she saved him from a very costly mistake.

8 Jun 2018

Economy

How Trump’s crony made his fortune

Making money is a different game when the money is all fake, says Bill Bonner.

16 Dec 2016

Features

Who can beat the market?

Investors can only guess what a stock is worth, says Bill Bonner. Those who do their homework make better guesses.

11 Sep 2014

Economy

Last of the capitalists

Nobody likes capitalism, says Bill Bonner. Not even the rich.

29 Apr 2014

Features

This recovery is fake

1 Feb 2014

Features

Argentina is going down

28 Jan 2014

Features

Flat hunting in Charm City

If you want something better than stocks and bonds, says Bill Bonner, try real estate.

23 Jan 2014

Features

There’s nothing normal about this recovery

America is about to enter its seventh year of slumpy, crisis-prone ‘recovery’, says Bill Bonner.

18 Dec 2013

Features

American grifters

Americans are saps, says Bill Bonner. They don’t know who to trust.

3 May 2013

Features

The destruction of wealth

Government spending destroys wealth, says Bill Bonner. It kills capital and makes the nation poorer.

7 Oct 2011

Features

On course for destruction

Greece, Japan, Ireland, Italy and the US have now borrowed so much that they are on course for destruction. And yet they couild still save themselves,…

14 Jul 2011

Features

Compound effort over time, part II: generations of wealth

One of the secrets to building true wealth is 'compound effort over time' - work hard at your chosen field, says Bill Bonner, and it'll pay off. But h…

17 May 2011

People

The elegant mischief of capitalism

Crisis can be fun, says Bill Bonner. It reveals the hideous skinny-dippers as the tide goes out.

19 Dec 2008

People

Bill Bonner: homage to Gideon Gono

There is something heroically imbecilic about the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, going where no central banker has dared to go since the wo…

5 Dec 2008

People

The world turns its weary eyes to Obama

Bill Bonner believes the American public have voted for Obama as a diversion from the real world – a fantasy, something to entertain them.

14 Nov 2008