Geopolitics

It's a Trap

15 September 2025
Thanks largely to the EZ money era wrought by America’s funny money, the world’s reserve currency, feds everywhere spend too much money. Economies adapted to the cash flow.

All Aboard

8 September 2025
Tariffs are essentially a sales tax. And a sales tax — averaging maybe 15% — is going to reduce consumer purchasing power…and cut into sales and profits. That is, it will be downer.

Motoring Through France

3 September 2025
When the stock market is low, bad news is expected; it does little damage. But at the top almost anything can cause a crash…while there is almost no ‘good news’ that will send stocks higher.

Groundrush

26 August 2025
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.

Crackpot Economics

11 August 2025
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…

Elon’s New Political Party Will Fail

24 July 2025
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?