Bill Bonner
Articles by Bill Bonner
Americans distracted by the health-care debate at home probably didn’t notice when 400,000 of their fellow citizens picked up their passports and left the country to seek treatment.
In this video International Living’s founding publisher, Bill Bonner, discusses the opportunities for fun, travel, adventure, romance and profits that exist around the world.
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know …
I founded International Living 30 years ago. What have I learned in three decades?
Maybe it’s better to begin with what I haven’t learned.
For the last 50 years, Americans have lived in sunshine. In 1989, our last rival—the communist Soviet Union—decided it was better to join us than to fight us; it decided that it would henceforth neither be communist, nor Soviet, nor a union.
“In what currency do you keep score,” was the question.
“I don’t know,” was the answer.
We were setting up an account in London. It was meant to be a wealth protection account. That is, we were not really trying to make money; we just want to avoid losing it. The first and most important question came up right away: how can you tell?
When I started International Living nearly three decades ago, two things were obvious:
The U.S. dollar was headed down, especially against gold…and there were surely better investment opportunities outside the U.S.
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