Trust No One and Resist the Crazy
The more power a person or institution has in society, the less trustworthy they tend to be. I don’t say this because it’s fun to be cynical, I say this because my life experience has…
Why Cash Will Crash
Since returning to work in 2021, Vern and I have been sparring over the usefulness of cash in an investor’s portfolio. He thinks it’s undervalued, I think it’s getting devalued and therefore shouldn’t be a…
Should You Be Worried About the Direction of Freedom of Speech?
Like the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post moniker, ‘Democracy dies in the darkness’, it’s just a slogan. The US is controlled by a political oligarchy that has only grown more powerful via its alliance with the…
Vern, I Respectively Disagree… Old Energy is Heating Up
For the past few days, my old mate Vern Gowdie has been regaling you with stories of fear and loathing about the stock market’s ridiculous valuation…
2020 Investment Advisory Services Report Card Part II
All paid-up subscribers of Port Phillip Publishing and Fat Tail Media products received these reports at the end of last year. We thought you might be interested to see how our services performed…
Dan Denning on How the Government Wins Every Election
Every election cycle, honest, well-intentioned citizens are invited to dirty their hands in the fundamentally dishonest, and corrupted political process of electing their next Dear Leader…
2020 Investment Advisory Services Report Card Part I
As you’ll see, the investment performance of nearly all of the investment services was outstanding, given the volatility experienced throughout the year. It’s a performance we’ll be working hard to…
Chris Mayer on the Trade of the Decade
When Bill Bonner issued his novel Trade of the Decade idea, back in 2000, a couple of major trends had been in play for a long, long time. First, gold had been in steady decline…
Dan Denning: The Anatomy of Revolution, Past and Future
What might this portend for our own future? Perhaps a look into the past can provide some clues. I spoke to Dan Denning, co-author of The Bonner-Denning Letter, about all this and more in our…
Dan Denning on the COVID Canary in the Coalmine
‘The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts,’ wrote the late, great, Australian-born literary critic, Clive James, ‘but that so many of them are descended from prison officers.’