Bill Bonner is an American

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of books and articles on

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and financial subjects. He is the founder of Agora Financial, as well as a co-founder of Bonner & Partners publishing. Bonner has written articles for the news and opinion

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, ''

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'' magazine, and his daily financial column ''Bill Bonner's Diary''.

Biography

Bonner was born in 1948. He attended the

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and

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, and he began work with Jim Davidson, at the

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. 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'' with Addison Wiggin. He also co-authored ''Mobs, Messiahs and Markets'' with Lila Rajiva. The latter publication won the

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for 2008. He has previously co-authored two short pamphlets with British media historian, John Campbell, and with ''

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'' former editor, Lord

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, 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'', Bonner has argued that the financial future of the

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is in peril because of various economic and demographic trends, not the least of which is America's large

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. He claims that America's foreign policy exploits are tantamount to the establishment of an

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, 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

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