Geopolitics

3 Stocks Ayn Rand Would Buy Now

Is our political news sounding strangely familiar? Then you must’ve been reading Atlas Shrugged. But what if that book also tells you how to invest?

How to profit from the Nuremberg Rally

President Trump wants to engineer a new stock market boom. He’s trying to seize control of the Federal Reserve to do it. How should you prepare for what’s next?

Trump’s pre-emptive strike on the Fed will reinflate the bull market

There is a deliberate strategy behind Trump’s antics regarding Fed Governor Lisa Cook. He wants to avoid a Liz Truss moment. Which means taking control of the Federal Reserve.

This bull market is a Nuremberg Rally

What’d happen if you put a real estate developer in charge of fiscal and monetary policy? You’d get another housing bubble. Well, Trump is busy staging a coup at the Federal Reserve. So…

Groundrush

We humans fall off the ledge the day we are born. And every bubble. Every human life. Every empire. And every paper currency ends the same way.

Trade Under the Big Top

Saying is one thing. Doing is another. A trade deal, procured under duress, is not likely to be more valuable than intel gotten by torture.

'Make the Foreigners Pay'

With the tariffs, the Trump team is retesting the notion that central planning can do a better job of making trade decisions than individual buyers and sellers with skin in the game.

An Options Strategy We DO Like...

From Trump’s latest moves to the UK’s wealth drain, our editors covered it all this week. But the big question remains: is the stock rally almost done? We don’t pretend to know. Instead, we’re exploring smart ways to trade what’s actually happening.

Project Exodus has begun

In today’s Issue: • Will the last taxpayer in Britain turn out the light? • Higher taxes will only make things worse • Japan’s non-dom…

Crackpot Economics

Publisher’s Note: While Bill Bonner’s latest commentary focuses on U.S. policy, the implications stretch far beyond Washington. When the world’s largest economy begins manipulating trade…

Fiscal dominance has it precisely backwards

Socialism gave us tyranny. Monetarism gave us asset bubbles. Keynesianism gave us the national debt. MMT gave us inflation. What’ll the next big idea cause?

Elon’s New Political Party Will Fail

Elon Musk’s plan to launch the America Party may already be doomed—but not without consequence. From Roosevelt to Ross Perot, history shows that third parties rarely win... but they often change everything. Could Musk accidentally hand victory to the very political forces he opposes?

Is Rachael Reeves about to “Brown Bottom” bitcoin?

In 1999, Gordon Brown sold Britain’s gold at the lowest point in a generation. Now Chancellor Reeves is reportedly weighing the same kind of move—only this time, it’s bitcoin. With 61,000 BTC on the books, is the UK government about to fumble the future of finance again?

What Happens Next

It’s not hard for us to imagine what might happen if Donald Trump were to have direct control of Fed policy. He’s already said the Fed should cut rates by 300 basis points.

She Will Destroy Us All

As the ancients put it, no man ever born of woman ever survives. And none ever gets through his life without making mistakes. Vanity, hatred, envy — the sins to which flesh is heir — always show up.

Imperial Mountain

In the Great Depression, we went broke and stood in food lines. History – that tart – always gets what she wants. So what do we do now?

The Curious Case of Fake GDP

Fake growth produces high asset prices, increased sales and profits, and raises debt levels. It distorts the economy...uses up precious time and resources (capital!)...and actually makes us poorer.

Why silver is the best way to profit from Trump’s coming melt-up market

In 11 months’ time, President Trump will replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell. And then we’ll find out what happens when a politician controls the money supply.

Heart of Fiscal Darkness

We only know if things are worth doing when and if people — of their own free will and with their own real money — pay for them. Otherwise, the transaction is likely to be a scam or a mistake.

Interest Rates, Observed

Lower interest rates encourage borrowing. That’s the whole idea. Debt goes up. Spending goes up. The feds ‘print’ more money to cover their deficits. Prices rise further.