Bill Bonner

Shrinking of the bubble empire

The world is becoming more multipolar as China, Russia, India, and other emerging powers challenge decades of US dominance. Bill Bonner looks at America's mounting debt, declining financial power, and the changing global order – and what that shift could mean for Britain.

Truth will out

Markets can rise far longer than seems rational. But when a bubble finally bursts, the losses can come frighteningly fast. Bill Bonner looks at what happens when speculation gives way to deflation – and why protecting yourself from the Big Loss matters more than chasing the next Nvidia.

It’s the debt, stupid

Western governments spent decades making promises their economies could afford. Now, ageing populations, mounting debt, and rising interest costs are changing the equation. Bill Bonner explains why voters are turning to the political fringes – and why the reckoning may only be beginning.

No Hiding from the Boom/Bust Cycle

For decades, the West believed finance and asset bubbles could replace real production. Bill Bonner explores whether China’s rise is proof of industrial genius… or simply another version of the same old cycle.

Expelled from paradise

Can earnings catch up to prices?

Shock and aw shucks

While headlines focus on conflict, the deeper shift is happening in trade, energy, and capital flows. That’s where the opportunity is forming.

Rules of engagement

A rainy winter. Two new wars. And a world that seems to be slipping back toward chaos. Bill connects the dots behind the headlines — and explains why investors may want to keep an umbrella handy.

The Doctor Will See You Now

We see machines that can do almost everything, physically and mentally, that a human can do. But with none of the sick days or bad attitudes that characterize our race.

Paper Privilege

The US reneged on its promise to exchange dollars for gold in August of 1971. Dollars were still the world’s reserve currency, but nobody had any guarantee that they would remain limited and valuable.

The Fix is In

A US Fed chair nomination might sound like inside baseball. It isn’t. With global liquidity already under strain and Japan’s bond market cracking, a shift at the Fed could trigger sudden repricing across sterling assets. This essay explains why Kevin Warsh’s appointment matters — and what it signals for the next phase of global markets.

Happy Vassals

Markets don’t move on headlines. They move on confidence, capital flows, and trust. As global alliances shift and large investors quietly rethink where their money feels safest, UK investors may be more exposed than they realise — particularly through currency risk and global portfolio concentration.

Murphy's Lawlessness

A conservative is someone who distrusts government power; he believes government should always be subordinate to the writ of Moses and the Grand Convention of 1787.

On to Moscow!

That is the magic of History...leaders are delusional when they need to be, and then, crowds fall into line behind the goofiest, most destructive programs. ‘On to Moscow,’ yell the soldiers...

The Underlying Malady

Almost all instances of imperial decline are accompanied by monetary decline, manifesting itself as inflation, corruption, and/or bankruptcy. But the real process is profound and mostly invisible

Bad Strategy

When leaders mistake short-term fixes for long-term strategy, the results are predictable: weaker markets, distorted prices, and growing costs for everyone else.

Chicken Feed

Tariffs feel powerful. Their costs are invisible — until they aren’t.

Is AI a 'Super Sell'?

Of the entire GDP gain for last year — $174 billion — fully three quarters of it were from capital investment in the AI/high tech industry. Take it away...and most of the ‘growth’ vanishes.

Strategic Investment

We come to what seems like a water-tight proposition: the more the feds get involved in the process of creating wealth, the less wealth is created.

Banana Republic Prices

The US has become a banana republic without the bananas. The practical importance: shouldn’t its capital assets — its stocks and bonds, primarily — be marked down to banana republic levels?