Some things are best left alone

[Bill Bonner’s Diary]( Some Things Are Best Left Alone By Bill Bonner Wednesday, August 25, 2021 [Bill Bonner] YOUGHAL, IRELAND – A great headline from yesterday’s AP: US troops surge evacuations out of Kabul but threats persist Yes, U.S. troops are launching a major “reverse assault”… surging out of Afghanistan like water down a toilet drain. But at least they tried! In some countries, women appear on the beach – in public – with practically no clothes on. In others, such as Afghanistan under the Taliban, they cover up, head to toe. Which one is right? We don’t know. We only know which we like. And even as to that – seeing the state of some of the people we see on the beach – we have our doubts. But it is not for us to tell other people what to wear. There are some things we can change for the better. And some things that are better left alone. Today, we explore how to tell the difference. Recommended Link [Millionaire’s Big Prediction From Living Room Couch]( [image]( Teeka Tiwari – America’s No. 1 Investor – just made an outrageous prediction. Recorded live from his living room couch… He blasts Congress, reveals nasty truths about America… And reveals one technology set to radically change our nation. Already, 400,000+ viewers have checked it out. WARNING: This video may make you furious. [Watch His Urgent Video Now]( -- Down the Drain And here’s a headline story from yesterday’s Washington Post… giving us advance warning: House passes $3.5 trillion budget plan, aims to vote on infrastructure package by late September House Democrats on Tuesday approved a roughly $3.5 trillion budget that could enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health-care, education and tax laws, overcoming their own internal divisions to take the next step toward enacting President Biden’s broader economic agenda. Yes, the same geniuses who gave us the 20-year debacle in Afghanistan are now working on U.S. finances. And soon, it will be the U.S. economy surging down the drain. Just as they tried to make sweeping changes south of the Hindu Kush… now, they’re aiming to make improvements south of the 49th parallel. Will they succeed? Will the U.S. be a more prosperous place after the improvers are finished with it? [Featured: New Investment “Craze” Hits All 50 States]( Win-Win Trades Win [Yesterday]( we looked at the basics. Money doesn’t make you rich. If it were so, [Zimbabwe]( and Venezuela would be among the richest places in the world. They’ve got plenty of money… all you could want of it. But their money is worthless. The U.S. has money, too. The Federal Reserve is “printing” $120 billion in new money every month. And there’s plenty more where that came from. But wealth comes from supplying goods and services to others – not from money. As we explain in our book Win-Win or Lose, it’s win-win trades that make people wealthy, nothing more. [Bonner-Denning Letter subscribers can download a copy of Bill’s book [here](. To subscribe, and receive a free electronic copy – [click here]( And how do you make sure the trades are win-win? It is very simple… People do not go into restaurants run by bad chefs. They do not buy furniture with a reputation for falling apart. They do not buy things they neither want nor need from people they don’t like or don’t trust. So the fellow who fails to provide good products and good services at a reasonable price goes out of business. No federal program needed! Subsidizing inefficient, unproductive businesses… …paying people not to work… …providing bailouts to shaky corporations… tariff protection to uncompetitive industries… “investment” funds to unprofitable projects… “welfare” to people who are believed to be unable to provide for themselves… or artificially low rates to keep the zombies alive… …all of it makes us poorer. Recommended Link [Cell Phone Owners Beware]( [image]( If you own a cell phone, then mobile service providers hope you never get to see this video that could soon go viral. It was shot in downtown Denver by a multi-millionaire, who exposed sensitive truths about mobile phones and 5G. His experiment could strike a bad chord with mobile phone companies. But you’ve got to see what this man discovered and what it means for phone users in the weeks ahead. [Click here to see this video.]( -- Easy-Peasy Economics But wait… Isn’t there anything “we” can do to make a win-win economy work better? How about long-term central planning? How about price controls… maybe only for the price of credit (interest rates)? How about providing liquidity in a pinch… or rewarding/punishing different investments so as to direct capital where “we” want it to go? According to Marxist theory, you don’t need a free economy to produce goods and services. You can do it more intelligently, more rationally, by organizing the economy according to what you’re trying to achieve. [Featured: (Bizarro World) Facebook set to launch new cryptocurrency?]( Women and men earn different salaries? Easy, peasy… Just pay them the same thing. Too many imports from China? No sweat… Close the border! Too much advertising? Ban it. High unemployment? Create jobs. Poverty? Give a guaranteed income. Inflation? Declare a moratorium on price increases. Want people to drive less? Force them to tie their shoelaces together and hop to work. See how easy it is? Recommended Link [How $60 Could Make You a Real Estate Mogul]( [image]( Thanks to a new technology Wired calls “A Gold Rush” – anyone with $60 in their pocket can become a landlord (potentially a rich one)… with a few taps on their smartphone. Fortune reports regular folks can now “play tycoon & buy a part of a condo or iconic building.” Tech genius Jeff Brown says he’s uncovered a way for average investors to play this landlord “loophole” with just $25. [Watch the Full Story Here.]( -- Tried and Failed The only trouble is, it doesn’t work. Marxian economics, price controls, Grand Projects, and funny money have been tried many times… over many decades. Is there one example where an economy has flourished as a result? Nope. Not a one. More to come… Regards, [signature] Bill --------------------------------------------------------------- Like what you’re reading? Send your thoughts to [feedback@rogueeconomics.com](mailto:feedback@rogueeconomics.com?subject=Some things are best left alone). --------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURED READS [Auto Parts Retailer Warns More Inflation Is Coming]( chief financial officer of Advanced Auto Parts warns that the price of auto parts is rising faster than expected. Supply chains are being impacted by COVID-19, labor shortages, and higher-cost materials… They say there is no end in sight. [Growing Divide Among Democrats Threatens Biden’s Infrastructure Bill]( are divided. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to negotiate a way out of a weeks-long stalemate with centrist Democrats that threatens to derail Joe Biden’s agenda… MAILBAG Readers respond to this week’s questions about whether the U.S. could have done anything differently in its retreat from Afghanistan and share their thoughts on Bill’s essay, “[Kaboom and Kabul]( Just a very few days before the Afghanistan fiasco erupted, I had finished reading two books – histories of the Habsburgs and their Austria-Hungary Empire, covering a period of 642 years ending in 1918, when the empire dissolved. I was interested because some of my in-laws had emigrated from that old empire. Bill, those stories were real eye-openers and showed that you were so right in all you said about empires. But even more so, they demonstrated that we, especially our “elite leaders,” haven't learned much from history. The same kind of stupidity keeps being repeated, and repeated, and on and on. Some wise man once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself. Men do!” And the history of the Habsburgs, indeed the history of all the other empires and rulers of their time, is full of situations and patterns that could readily be transposed to our current world – only the names of the “elites” would need to be changed. It seems we will learn only by changing human nature, and that is unlikely to happen any time soon. – George B. Place an asterisk by your comment: “Donald Trump… failed spectacularly.” He was battered/prevented to “Save America” by an entrenched treasonous Deep State, Military Industrial Complex, elite Wall Street globalists (trillions were at stake), A corrupt intelligence community and the hostile news media. To say he “failed spectacularly” is omitting the fact he was brave enough to at least try to “Make America Great Again.” No man has surfaced in the last 50 years willing to “Take On” this cesspool of traitors to America. No single mere mortal could even begin to make the changes necessary to save our country. To say he failed is ignoring and refusing to acknowledge all of the above evil that exists in D.C. that attacked his every attempt to “Make America Great Again.” – William H. Wondering if the least we could’ve done, in preparing for withdrawal, would’ve been to make sure all of the arms and equipment were left in the hands of the resistance. Could it be that, as one of your readers mentioned, is this the way someone (or ones) wanted it to happen? – Pete M. I really enjoy your insights and the delivery of your opinion. The sad fact of Afghanistan is that any thinking person that served there knew it was a farce, in terms of what was being offered as the goal (my brother – Australian – did two tours of Afghanistan and one in Iraq). But even more tragic is when the girls and women, and young boys, are abused and mistreated, there is not now even the threat of some sort of defender. It will be the hollow rhetoric from some vacuous politician from the safety of their own echo chamber! I wish we could find a cure for the perpetual political virus! – Tony G. Additionally, a few readers think the U.S. should have never gone to Afghanistan in the first place… Wesley O. is correct about getting out of Afghanistan. Getting out (although done with no intelligent plan) is the right thing to do. If not now, when? Getting out of Afghanistan should have happened after the Seals killed Bin Laden. What would have been even better is never to have gotten in. – Anthony B. The exit from Afghanistan reminds me of the old Chinese proverb: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. The time to get out was many years ago, or better yet, to have never gone in to begin with. But having been there this long, surely we could have managed a more graceful exit. I grieve for what America has become and the trends in place do not bode well. – Gordon F. What is the cure for the “perpetual political virus” Tony G. describes? And is there anything ‘we’ can do to make a win-win economy work better? Write us at [feedback@rogueeconomics.com](mailto:feedback@rogueeconomics.com?subject=Some things are best left alone). IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… [The 3-Stock Retirement Blueprint]( When most folks think about making money through the markets, they think “buy and hold.” They think “diversification.” And they think about investing in things like index funds. But one man has a different approach… It’s called the “3-Stock Retirement Blueprint.” It’s a way to play 3 stocks – yes, just 3 – and potentially make more money than you would by trading all the rest of them… Or by using an old-fashioned approach. Sound impossible? [Get all the details here]( – including the names and tickers of the three stocks. [Click here now.]( [image]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Get Instant Access Click to read these free reports and automatically sign up for daily research. [image]( [The Gold Investor’s Guide]( [image]( [How to Earn Free Bitcoin]( [image]( [The Trader’s Guide to Technical Analysis]( [Rogue Economincs]( Rogue Economics 55 NE 5th Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483 [www.rogueeconomics.com]( [Share]( [FACEBOOK]( [Tweet]( [TWITTER]( To ensure our emails continue reaching your inbox, please [add our email address]( to your address book. This editorial email containing advertisements was sent to {EMAIL} because you subscribed to this service. To stop receiving these emails, click [here](. Rogue Economics welcomes your feedback and questions. But please note: The law prohibits us from giving personalized advice. To contact Customer Service, call toll free Domestic/International: 1-800-681-1765, Mon–Fri, 9am–7pm ET, or email us [here](mailto:memberservices@rogueeconomics.com). © 2021 Rogue Economics. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution of our content, in whole or in part, is prohibited without written permission from Rogue Economics. [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Use](