Bill Bonner is an American
author of books and articles on
economic and
financial
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...
subjects. He is the founder of
Agora Financial
Agora Financial is a privately held publishing company, based in Baltimore, Maryland, that produces print and email publications, books, and conferences directed toward providing financial advice, commentary, and marketing predictions.
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, as well as a co-founder of Bonner & Partners publishing. Bonner has written articles for the news and opinion
blog LewRockwell.com, ''
MoneyWeek'' magazine, and his daily financial column ''Bill Bonner's Diary''.
Biography
Bonner was born in 1948.
He attended the
University of New Mexico and
Georgetown University Law School, and he began work with Jim Davidson, at the
National Taxpayers Union.
Bonner was a director of MoneyWeek from 2003 to 2009.
Works
Bonner co-authored ''Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving The Soft Depression of The 21st Century'' and ''
Empire of Debt
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
'' with
Addison Wiggin. He also co-authored ''Mobs, Messiahs and Markets'' with
Lila Rajiva. The latter publication won the
GetAbstract International Book Award for 2008. He has previously co-authored two short pamphlets with British media historian, John Campbell, and with ''
The Times'' former editor, Lord
William Rees-Mogg, and has co-edited a book of essays with intellectual historian,
Pierre Lemieux.
In his two financial books, as well as in ''
The Daily Reckoning
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'', Bonner has argued that the financial future of the
United States is in peril because of various economic and demographic trends, not the least of which is America's large
trade deficit. He claims that
America's foreign policy
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exploits are tantamount to the establishment of an
empire, and that the cost of maintaining such an empire could accelerate America's eventual decline. Bonner argues in his latest book that mob and mass delusions are part of the human condition.
Bonner warned in 2015 that the credit system, which has been the essential basis of the US economy since the 1950s, will inevitably fail, leading to catastrophic failure of the banking system.
References
External links
Bill Bonner bio
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American economics writers
American male non-fiction writers
American finance and investment writers
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