| By Bill Bonner, Chairman, Bonner & Partners The rich ruleth over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender. – Proverbs 22:7 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Every generation has its fads and follies… which it takes for Eternal Truth. Diversity… climate change… and a 2% inflation target top today’s list. Early adopters believe they are “progressive.” They pick up the buzzwords in college – intersectionality, carbon neutral, dynamic stochastic – and throw them around like small change. They think of themselves as the cutting-edge, liberal-minded innovators that move society forward. And then the next generation laughs at them. | Recommended Link | | WOW! Did you catch that? Market Wizard Larry Benedict just used his trading technique to generate $106,547 in a single trading day… Actually, he made the bulk of it in just a few hours. All of that money – every single penny – is going to a local charity, Boca Helping Hands. The good news for you… is that he’s willing to teach you exactly what he does… (Larry believes you can make an extra $200,000 next year trading this way.) To claim your charter membership to Larry’s new advisory, click here now. And remember: 1% of your purchase goes directly to Boca Helping Hands. Your subscription tonight will help feed 150 people. | | | -- | Hidden Truths TIME magazine has just named Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year. Ms. Thunberg thinks she knows what temperature the Earth should be. No kidding. She thinks it’s too hot. She proposes that we spend trillions to keep it from getting hotter. Like Joan of Arc, perhaps the Archangel Michael speaks to her… Maybe she knows some truth thus far hidden from other mortals. And her crusade is big; she’s not just rescuing Orléans from the English, but saving the planet. When we were young, we could ice-skate on the West River… on the west side of the Chesapeake. Now, it is very rare that the river freezes. But is that a bad thing? Now we use less fuel keeping warm. Besides, it’s a bad-climate wind that blows no one good. While Floridians, barely above sea level, already sweat heavily in the summertime… out on the high plains of the Dakotas, mightn’t they appreciate a few more days added to their growing season? As to what the Earth’s climate should be, we have no opinion… Let others, who think they know, get their photos on the cover of TIME. | Recommended Link | | “My Net Worth Went Up $10,000 Today!”
– Lyle A. It’s a fact. E.B. Tucker has helped folks make a lot of money over the years. And now he has a way for YOU to do even better (perhaps 100 times better)… Using an obscure (but super easy to trade) investment that 99.99% of Americans are completely unaware of. (Hint: It’s not stocks, bonds, ETFs, options, futures, mutual funds, CDs, or private equity.) Think that sounds hard to believe? E.B. would likely agree… if he and his partners hadn’t already used this secret investment themselves for the chance to bag extraordinary gains like: 218%, 220%, 277%, 350%, 420%, 433%, 650%, 1,054%, 2,450%, 3,922%, 5,509%, and 6,200%. $2,500 into each of those turns into over $567,000. That’s life-changing. | | | -- | More Diversity! Likewise, at a recent board meeting of a nonprofit institution in Baltimore, a crowd of adults were lectured on the need for “diversity.” Leaning heavily on the “intersectionality” of discrimination, the staff – all female – proposed to increase diversity by… hiring more women! The Baltimore Museum of Art, meanwhile, says next year it will not buy works of art done by men; it is making amends for the male dominance of the art world since the time of Eve. And if an old, now unbuyable, painting by Botticelli or Manet seems to show women in a decorative role, the museum feels it necessary to warn viewers that the “patriarchal structure” of society at the time forced women into subservient and submissive roles. It doesn’t want anybody to come to his own conclusion! But is patriarchy a bad thing? It’s not a knowable thing. Is “diversity” good? Again, who knows? Does the gender of the artist make any damned difference? Ehh? | Recommended Link | | 597x more powerful than iPhone technology? You’re looking at a new chip that’s 597x more powerful than the one in the iPhone X. And it will soon unlock some amazing new “apps” on your phone or tablet. Like “virtual” assistants that are almost identical to humans… and can book your restaurant reservation while you play a round of golf. One expert says it could be “the biggest breakthrough since the microchip in 1959.” For investors, it means an incredible new opportunity… A chance to participate in a $15.7 trillion boom. Alongside Google, Amazon, Oracle, and just about every major company in America. | | | -- | Economic Marvel Those questions are best not asked – not if you want a job in academia or the art world. They are almost verboten. But so is any discussion of opposing points of view. A professor in Nebraska even got whacked by a “bias response team” for putting a Trump sticker in his office window. The financial world, too, has its own claptrap. Central bankers and economists think they know what the consumer price inflation rate should be: 2%. Why 2%? There’s no evidence that 2% is better than 3% or that 3% is worse than zero. They think they know what interest rates should be, too. How do they know these things? No point in asking. The answers are mumbo-jumbo. But let us move along and pause to gawk at another marvel: negative rates. In this Brave New World, many economists think they not only “make sense,” but that the situation requires them. When savers have to pay for the privilege, they reason, they’ll stop hoarding money and begin spending it. Then, the economy will grow faster, people will have jobs, incomes will rise, profits will go up… and we’ll all be richer. Our jaw drops open… our breathing stops. Imagine all those generations of idiots that went before us… all of them diligently saving their pennies, pfennigs, and sous. If they had only known. We shudder to think how much richer they could have been if they had spent all their money rather than saved it. And here’s another big plus for negative interest rates: They turn debt into an asset. Because the carrying cost turns into a stream of income! One-Upping Jesus Yes, Jesus may have turned water into wine… but central banks have now one-upped him. They turn a negative into a positive… an expense item into revenue… a bad thing into a good one. It’s almost, well, incredible. “The borrower is servant to the lender,” it says in the Bible. But now, with these new miracles of modern finance, it’s the lender who must brew the debtor’s tea and empty his chamber pot. Negative interest rates? Bring ’em on! Soaring debt? No problem! A debt crisis? Forgetaboutit. When future generations look for something to laugh at, we doubt they will have to look much further. We’ll explain why tomorrow… Regards, Bill Like what you’re reading? Send your thoughts to feedback@bonnerandpartners.com. FEATURED READS Give Yourself Some Financial Peace of Mind
Bill spells out financial turmoil and uncertainty, but this holiday there is one sure way to protect – or grow – your wealth… MAILBAG One Dear Reader thinks Bill is out of his mind with “A Fit of Collective Insanity,” where he wrote that the “blowout” employment numbers we’re seeing are typical of a late-stage boom… Bill, were you drinking while you wrote this article? Are you highly medicated? You need to re-read some of the subject matter that you had written in this article. Some comments are just absolutely stupid. I don’t have time for stupid. In my opinion, and it’s only my opinion, you are totally 180 degrees away from what’s actually happening here in America… – Scott P. While another appreciates Bill’s unplugged weekend on the farm (Bill was a “seeing-eye human” for his daughter’s blind golden retriever)… Bill, I thoroughly enjoyed your “disconnected” weekend with blind Billy showing you the way. It was a good reminder how addictive our modern appliances make us, if we let them. I live alone, on five acres, am 82, have seen all the changes you mentioned, and refuse to be controlled by any electronic appliance. I am my own woman, and will stay that way… and share my life with my three dogs who are much better companions than I have had in the past. Keep the common sense coming… it’s in short supply. – Helen S. Are Bill’s political and economic speculations way off, as Scott believes? Was Bill’s electronic disconnection over Thanksgiving a good reminder to you, as it was for Helen? Write us at feedback@bonnerandpartners.com. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… Did you catch last night’s special broadcast? Over 100,000 people registered (enough people to sell out Michigan Stadium)… They signed up to see if trading legend Larry Benedict could generate $70,000 in just a few hours of trading. Care to guess what happened? Spoiler: He won. But make sure you watch the show to see exactly how much he generated, and how he did it. Find out here. 
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