Bill Bonner (author)
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Bill Bonner is an author
Author
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 of books and articles on economic and financial
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 subjects. He is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, and the principal author of a daily financial column known as The Daily Reckoning. Bonner is also a contributor to the news and opinion blog
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 LewRockwell.com
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 and has written articles for MoneyWeek
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 magazine.

Bonner co-authored Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving The Soft Depression of The 21st Century and Empire of Debt
Empire of Debt
Empire of Debt is a book written by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, subtitled "The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis" . The authors argue that the United States has transformed from a republic into an empire, although it also discusses such varied themes as the wisdom of the dead and a style of...

 with Addison Wiggin. He also co-authored Mobs, Messiahs and Markets with Lila Rajiva which won the GetAbstract International Book Award
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 for 2008. He has previously co-authored two short pamphlets - with British media historian, John Campbell and with Financial Times editor, Lord William Rees-Mogg, and has co-edited a book of essays with intellectual historian, Pierre Lemieux.

In his two financial books and in The Daily Reckoning, Bonner argues that the financial future of the United States
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 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 exploits are tantamount to the establishment of an empire
Empire
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, and the price 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 attended the University of New Mexico and Georgetown Law School and began work with Jim Davidson, at the National Tax-payer's Union.
Bonner has received awards for renovating historic buildings along with his project manager Jean Hankey.

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