#42 - Bill Bonner on How Economic Policies Are Eroding Two Millennia of Progress

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