Bill Bonner's Podcast
By Bonner & Partners
Bill Bonner's PodcastNov 13, 2019
The Feds Add Liquidity to Sustain Economic Expansion
Neither markets nor economies will be able to retreat – not if the authorities can prevent it.
Episode 48: The Feds Interfere in Markets and Multiply Corruption Opportunities
Speculators have made billions by systematically front-running the Federal Reserve…
Episode 47: The Fed Is Back to Robbing the Middle Class to Reward the Rich
More fake new dollars… debt… nutty booms… and terrifying busts.
Episode 46: Rigging the Federal Reserve Made the Rich Richer
The rich are so much richer today than they were 30 years ago… because they scammed the Fed.
Episode 45: Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump Are Not Real Capitalists
Real capitalists would drain the swamp and let open markets and win-win deals run free.
Episode 44: Global Authorities Aren’t Waiting for a Crisis to Move Toward More Debt
If you lock in tons of debt, you’ll still have it when the economy tanks and you can’t pay it…
Episode 43: The Rich Will Be Scapegoats for the Next Financial Crisis
People don’t blame themselves for their misfortunes. They blame someone else…
Episode 42: China May Decide When the Next U.S. Financial Crisis Comes
What a twist! What a turn! What another fine mess we’ve gotten into!
Episode 41: Inflation Will Eliminate Excess Debt
The next go-round of inflation will solve the debt problem. The future is not all grim…
Episode 40: We Can’t “Grow Our Way Out” of Debt
Growing your way out of debt works only if the emergency passes and GDP grows faster than debt.
Episode 39: In the Next Crisis, Both Warren and Trump Will Push Towards More Inflation
Neither Republican nor Democrat is proposing to return to honest money…
Episode 38: The Longest-Running Bull Market in History Won’t Last Much Longer
We’ve said the bull market would end “sooner or later” so often, we should remove the “sooner”…
Episode 37: Auto Financing Forces Poor Buyers Deeper Into Debt Than Ever Before
The poor buyer is now slave to all types of loans – almost in perpetuity.
Episode 36: Soviet Catastrophe Paints Grim Picture of America’s Future
In the next crisis, no matter who is president, mischief will come bounding over the walls…
Episode 35: Interest Rates Should Be Discovered, Not Made
You can no more reason your way to a correct rate than you can reason your way into love.
Episode 34: Power Is at the Root of Overseas Meddling
Money is spent to destroy a nation… then build it back. Commoners don’t know what’s going on.
Episode 33: Democracy Doomed the Money System
There is always a bias towards inflation – the benefits come quickly to the people in charge…
Episode 32: WeWork Troubles Expose Deeper Problems With Our Money System
The unicorns have been destroying U.S. capital by the 100s of billions of dollars per year.
Episode 31: Democracy Is a Scam
The fatal deceit of democracy: Voters have no way to know the Deep State is playing them.
Episode 30: The Dollar and Democracy Are Frauds
We’ll shed no tears as the world’s dollar-based financial system and American democracy degenerate.
Episode 29: All Major Economies Are Caught in an Inflate-or-Die Trap
The feds are the only people who can get away with the counterfeit money scams…
Episode 28: The Internet Age Distorted the Meaning of Wealth
In the New Era, a new species of human appeared: Silicon Man. The old model wondered what the hell was going on.
Episode 27: Since the Turn of the Century, Government Corruption Has Become More Flagrant
Spending money you don’t have on wars you don’t need to fight is not a formula for national greatness. It is a ticket to bankruptcy, claptrap and flimflam…
Episode 26: “Free” Money Destroys the U.S. Financial System
Bonds with negative yields? You’d have to be nuts to buy them. Unless…
Episode 25: China Isn’t Ready to Be the World’s Leading Economy
China’s economy is hardly the super pooch it appears to be…
Episode 24: What to Expect as World Trade Slows and Bonds Signal Recession
Getting a handle on economics requires more than books and theories. It needs a punch in the face from time to time.
Episode 23: Trump Needs the Trade War to Maintain the Illusion of a Strong Economy
Mr. Trump’s main reelection selling point is the economy. So he needs to maintain the illusion that our economy is good…
Episode 22: The Greatest Political Leader of All Time
It would be easy to dismiss America’s president as a moron. But he’s much more than that…
Episode 21: Monetary Policy Won’t Preserve Economic Expansion
If lower interest rates are such a good idea, how come Japan and Europe are in worse shape than we are?
Episode 20: The President Will Do Whatever It Takes to Get the Fed to Further Cut Rates
Markets and economies are hard to predict. But politicians are panes of glass.
Episode 19: Negative Interest Rates Are Not Normal
The weirder things get, the more people struggle to think they aren’t weird at all…
Episode 18: America Has Been Declining Since 2000
When the calendar rolled over on January 1st, 2000, the dreaded Y2K disaster didn’t happen. Instead, America rolled over.
Episode 17: Inverted Yield Curve Signals Coming Recession
A recession may have a long fuse. But when a theatre burns down, it’s best to leave the show early…
Episode 16: Inflation Has Eroded the U.S. and Chinese Economies
China and the U.S. became so ugly their own mothers wouldn’t recognize them. Like a powerful drug, phony money disfigured their economies.
Episode 15: What Our Grandkids Taught Us About Buying the Dip
People forsake their most deeply-etched urges in the name of progress, vanity, and quackery. Even when that loses them money.
Episode 14: Gold Tells Us the Stock Market’s True Condition
Gold faithfully records what things are worth. Now, it says the stock market isn’t worth what the feds want you to think…
Episode 13: Smart Money Should Beware of a Bear Market Bounce
Mr. Market doesn’t suffer fools gladly. He tantalizes them with dreams of avarice beyond their wildest imaginations and lures them to make bigger fools of themselves.
Episode 12: What the U.S. Government Isn’t Telling You About the Trade War With China
The whole ball of trade wars, Federal Reserve rate cuts, currency manipulation… is so tangled up in deception and claptrap it is almost impossible to unravel.
Episode 11: The Government Encourages Debt and Destroys Capital
Without real savings, a capitalist economy has nothing to work with, nothing to build upon, no surplus that can be used to create more output. Debt is not capital.
Episode 10: Why We’re Keeping Our “Crash Alert” Flag Up
So far, the big, fat, ugly Dow has sat on the wall and stubbornly refused to tumble. But last week, Donald J. Trump gave Humpty a shove.
Episode 09: Yesterday’s Interest Rate Cut Was the Biggest Mistake in Federal Reserve History
While it has no hope of real success, the Fed gamely soldiers on… stumbling and bumbling into the valley of death. This time, it skipped ahead in its cycle of mistakes.
Episode 08: Beyond Meat’s Stock Attracts “Dumb Money”
Beyond Meat’s stock is up big since the fake-meat company’s May IPO. But with no profits and no popular brand, has this company pulled a fast one on investors?
Episode 07: Donald Trump and Elijah Cummings Are Both Betraying Voters
President Trump attacked Rep. Elijah Cummings for doing too little to help Baltimore residents… But neither politician is fulfilling his campaign promises to voters.
Episode 06: How “Free Money” Has Changed Baltimore
Free money is an attractive nuisance. Whether you give it to the poor or to the rich, it has the same effect.
Episode 05: The House Passes Budget Deal to Increase Military Spending
They pay more. They spend more. They borrow more…
Episode 04: The Pentagons Reckless Spending Has Weakened America
Yes, Dear Reader, all those trillions of “stimulus” inflation must go somewhere…
Episode 03: Trump and Pelosi Surrender With Latest Deal
The deal they just agreed on was such an abject surrender… such a cowardly rejection of their conservative principles…
Episode 02: It's the Era of Inflate or Die
It is a simpleton’s idea… which makes it suitable for both Democrats and Republicans…
Episode 01: How Congress Prepares for Battle
In a panic, they threw down their weapons… ended their policy of interest rate normalization… and fled the field…