A bedtime story

[Bill Bonner's Diary]( Editor’s Note: The Bonner & Partners offices are closed for Thanksgiving. Today, we bring you one of Bill’s greatest essays… a beginner’s guide to understanding how the fake money system has left us all doomed. A Bedtime Story By Bill Bonner, Chairman, Bonner & Partners [bill bonner] We are explaining our money system to our grandson, James, now 14 months old… His mother tries to get him to go to bed at 9 p.m. But the little boy’s internal clock is still on Baltimore time; it tells him it is much too early to go to sleep. Bill’s living room transformed into a makeshift nursery Grandpa takes over, drawing out the monetary system like a general spreading a map on a field table. “Here is the enemy,” he says gravely. “They have us completely surrounded. We’re doomed.” James grumbles. He squirms. He has a sunny, optimistic temperament. But we think our explanations are sinking in. Recommended Link [Silicon Valley Rocket Scientist Declares:]( ["An anomaly at the FDA could launch a new biotech industry 35,000% starting December 19"]( -- He seems to understand… …that money is not wealth; it just measures and represents wealth, like the claim ticket on a car in a parking garage. …that our post-1971 money system is based on fake money that represents no wealth and measures badly. …that this new money enters the economy as credit… and that the credit industry (Wall Street) has privileged access to it. The working man still has to earn his money, selling his work, by the hour. But Wall Street – and elite borrowers connected to the Establishment – get it without breaking a sweat or watching the clock. …that a disproportionate share of this new money is concentrated in and around the credit industry – pushing up asset prices, raising salaries and bonuses in the financial sector, and making the rich (those who own financial assets) much richer. …that this flood of credit helped the middle class raise its living standards, even as earnings stagnated. But it also raised debt levels throughout the economy. …and that it allowed the average American family to spend American money that Americans never earned and buy products Americans never made… Instead, Walmart’s shelves were stocked with goods “Made in China.” The middle class lost income as factories, jobs, and earnings moved overseas. Debt stayed at home. “Okay so far?” we asked James as his eyeballs rolled backward and his breathing slowed. But one thing must still puzzle him. How did the new dollar actually retard growth? Maybe it didn’t make people richer… After all, how can you expect to make people better off by giving them fake money? But how did it make them worse off? Recommended Link [How Sara Made Money Like a Millionaire]( [image]( When Sara's husband passed away, she needed a way to make good money. This controversial "key" technique allowed her to make $180,000 a year for nearly a decade. Discover how ordinary people are using this little-known "key" technique to make thousands per week… without touching stocks or bonds. [Click here to get the full details]( -- The Ultimate Absurdity We began with an attack en masse across a broad, philosophical front: “As you sow, so shall ye reap,” we said. “And when you put a lot of fake money into a society, you end up with a fake economy.” Just look at Argentina in 2001… or Zimbabwe in 2006… or Venezuela now… Prices go wild as people try to figure out what the money is really worth. But the economy shrinks. It was the same way in Germany during the Weimar hyperinflation. People stopped producing. You might have a billion marks in your pocket, but you couldn’t find a bar of soap for sale. “But wait… I know what you’re thinking…” we imagined James pushing back. “Those are all hyperinflation stories. We don’t have that now. Instead, we have much less inflation… Prices are almost stable.” Yes… for now. The inflation is in the asset sector… and in credit itself… not in consumer items. But the phenomenon is much the same. Recommended Link [Congressional Bill: Massive Bull Market Dead Ahead]( Congress is on the verge of igniting a bull market that could be 8 times greater than any in U.S. history. But not in any market you might expect. Not the Dow, Nasdaq, or even gold. Instead, it's a unique collection of [900+ companies]( that trade like ordinary stocks. One Goldman Sachs insider says 4,900% growth could be on the horizon… Sending this little-known market soaring in coming months… and turning early investors into a new class of millionaires virtually overnight. [All starting with this obscure new bill]( -- Fake money is giving grossly distorted information to everyone. In Manhattan, we are told that an ordinary apartment is worth $2 million. But in Geneva – where interest rates have turned negative – we are told that $2 million is worth nothing… You will have to pay one of the banks to take it off your hands. Without honest money, real savings, and true interest rates, businesses and investors have nothing to guide them. They are lost in the woods. Few want to do the hard work, and take the risks, of long-term, capital-heavy ventures. Instead, the focus shifts to speculation, gambling… and playing the game for short-term profits. What’s more, artificially low interest rates provide fatal misinformation. They tell the world that we have an infinite supply of resources – time, money, energy, and know-how. Then, without its back to the wall of scarcity, with no need to make careful choices, capitalism becomes reckless and irresponsible with its most valuable resource – capital itself. It is destroyed, wasted, misallocated, and malinvested. Growth rates fall and the world becomes poorer. James is startled awake. He is disturbed. “What kind of a world have I been born into…?” he seems to ask. Regards, [Signature] Bill [Bonner and Partners]( © Bonner & Partners 55 NE 5th Avenue, Suite 100, Delray Beach, FL 33483 [www.bonnerandpartners.com]( This e-mail was sent to {EMAIL} because you subscribed to this service. To stop receiving these emails, click [here](. Customer Service Bonner & Partners welcomes your feedback and questions. But please note: The law prohibits us from giving personalized advice. 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