Bonner Private Research Podcast

(00:50) - Intro (03:10) - [START] (03:50) - The Greatest Financial Crisis in American History... (06:20) - Half a century into the modern monetary experiment and where it’s headed (07:50) - What does Bonner Private Research mean for YOU? (08:50) - Bill Bonner, Dan Denning, Tom Dyson and Joel Bowman, direct to you (10:50) - Daily musings, weekly podcasts, deep dive investment insights (13:20) - Welcome to Bill’s personal network of investors, analysts and thinkers (14:20) - What you’ll get with your new BPR subscription... (16:50) - The world is changing... this is how we’re changing to keep you informed (20:50) - Sharing is caring! Please invite your friends and family along for the ride... (23:50) - Nimble, dynamic and responsive... a new way forward for a new year. (25:50) - A look at the days to come... and a big thankyou to everyone (26:00) - END

Time stamps - A rough guide... (00:50) - Intro (01:30) - Addison’s intro... (02:50) - Omicron and the wrong way to learn the Greek alphabet (03:50) - Morris, Alive - A novel investigation into the “Idea of America” (04:50) - All fiction is, in the end, autobiographical - Jorge Luis Borges (05:50) - Why it has become fashionable to denigrate America (08:05) - A look inside American culture... from an outsider’s perspective (10:20) - America as the home of the individual (11:20) - From Walt Whitman to Bob Dylan, a legacy of literary independence (12:20) - The uniqueness of the American project (16:20) - Clear and Present Danger: A look at the threats to American culture (19:50) - Why literature? Why draw the line in the sand here? (24:20) - What’s wrong with Marxism anyway? (31:35) - The second coming of Neo-Wilsonian progressivism (37:20) - Progressivism through the 20th Century... and what’s next (39:20) - Breaking out of the echo chamber (47:50) - END

Time stamps - A rough guide... (03:00) - “Helllloooooo Bill...” (04:00) - Bill chimes in on the cult of St. Greta and the COP26 gabfest in Glasgow (06:10) - “A lot of people are making a lot of money out of this green stuff,” Bill Bonner (09:55) - Bill’s take on climate change: It’s a whole lot more complicated than that! (11:10) - Would we be better off with lower CO2? What’s the cost? Nobody knows... (12:10) - Viva la (Brown) Revolution! 7 billion people depend on industrialization (13:10) - Supply Chain Disruptions as a result of energy breakdowns (15:40) - Bill on the true genius of capitalism in a free and open market (17:00) - Adam Smith’s invisible hand and the making of a single pencil (21:10) - Nature is full of tricks and surprises... technology makes it possible to survive them (24:25) - Top down experiments in economic mismanagement... and The Fed’s “3rd mandate” (26:25) - Bill on untruths, public relations and environmentally friendly governance (27:40) - “The Fed has two choices. All the rest is poppycock. They inflate, or they don’t inflate. My opinion is, they’re gonna inflate.” (30:40) - Where is Paul Volcker when you need him? Long, long gone... (31:40) - How the entire elite of America got rich from printing money (33:40) - Lessons from the past... money printing and the great Faustian pact (35:40) - Do the recent elections suggest a cultural pushback? (38:40) - What’s in a name... or a pronoun? (41:00) - END

01:30 - Exercise-induced boredom and economic life after the Fed’s tapering... 01:00 - Auditory enlightenment and the antidote to boredom... 02:30 - Life by subscription and the challenge of valuations in the ‘New Normal’ 05:30 - Building narratives to justify any old theory... 06:30 - The Great Intergenerational Wealth Transfer, from cash flow millennials to asset rich Boomers 08:30 - Asset bubbles, suppressed interest rates and the real value of your time 13:00 - How the Fed’s abuse of its exorbitant privilege paved the way for Bitcoin 15:30 - How to build your own Atomic Bomb (and the investment takeaway) 16:30 - A guerilla army constructs a decentralized alternative to the goosed game 18:00 - The Empire strikes back - crypto bans, regulations and the future 19:30 - What to make of so-called “temporary inflation,” now projected into 2022 21:00 - People still pretty much vote with their pocket books... 24:00 - What big, historic, macro indicators are telling us about the road ahead... 25:30 - What’s really driving Supply Chain Disruptions (hint... follow the money) 28:00 - The Pandemic as de-facto boogeyman for all politically caused ills in life 31:15 - What about the Fed’s (hypothetical... and proposed) 3rd mandate, Social Justice? 33:00 - The Glasgow Hypocrisy Summit - 400 private jets convene...to stop the world burning 37:00 - Putting philosophy aside - is it better to be rich than being right? 42:40 - “The best way to preserve your freedom is not to pick the right candidate, but to be able to take care of yourself” ~ Dan Denning

Time stamps - A rough guide... (00:50) (02:50) - Bill Bonner (03:00) - Advice from father of the bride - Start saving now (04:00) - What to do when inflation hits 50% (Learn mental math!) (05:00) - Trends in motion accelerated by a pandemic (06:30) - The US follows Tokyo... all the way to Buenos Aires! (08:30) - How the country is going down the tubes... let us count the ways (12:00) - How might 2021 years of progress come to a grinding halt? (15:00) - Out shrinking world - How the State curtails freedoms (16:00) - “What makes progress is the ability of people to decide what to do for themselves. It’s freedom.” (17:00) - What we learned from the 20th Century’s 3 Great Mistakes (19:30) - Welcome to the USSA: Saule Omorova and the New World Improvers (22:30) - Public profligacy, private snooping - Big Brother eyes your accounts (23:30) - “The whole idea of democratic government is basically a fraud.” Bill Bonner (24:20) - “The actual value of a single vote in America today is approximately zero.” (29:30) - Bill weighs in on vaccine mandates and the absence of consent (30:30) - Fake whistleblowers and Facebook’s war against competing ideas (35:00) - The corruption of the dollar and the false signals it sends (38:00) - A sneak peek into the future of Bill’s new private research project