The danger of forgetting the lessons of the past

[Bill Bonner’s Diary]( Emma’s Note: Emma Walsh here, managing editor of the Diary. The world is gripped by a major bout of amnesia. The compiled wisdom of generations’ worth of trial and error gained over many centuries has largely been forgotten or brushed aside. Relearning thousands of years’ worth of lessons will be painful. There will be lots of poverty and suffering. Today’s inflation is just the beginning. Bill shows us just one example of how it could all go terribly wrong… --------------------------------------------------------------- The Danger of Forgetting the Lessons of the Past By Bill Bonner, Coauthor, The Bonner-Denning Letter [Bill Bonner] What a strange and forbidding place! We refer to Planet Earth, 2021. It is not even safe for cats! Think of all we’ve discovered. Over many, many centuries… in hundreds of very disturbing and illuminating real-world experiments… and with millions of people suffering lives of poverty and early death to carry them out… …we must have learned something. What exactly? That you can’t get rich by spending more than you earn. That you can’t just “print” fake money without distorting and destroying the real economy. That if you want to be prosperous, you must respect property rights and contracts… and keep taxes, inflation, and government under control… That capitalism – which is really nothing more than accumulated experiments condensed into a vernacular of rules, customs, and institutions – works. [Featured: Shameful! See What Biden and the Democrats Just Did To YOUR Money]( Central planning, on the other hand – with major capital allocation and distribution decisions made by people with no “skin in the game” – does not. When you forget these basic lessons, you risk destabilizing your society and setting off a runaway chaos that makes you poorer and less safe. Recommended Link [Wall Street Insider Veteran Admits: "Freedom is Dying in America"]( [ad_img]( At age 16, Wall Street veteran Teeka Tiwari considered America the land of unlimited opportunity. Today, after 30 years at the highest levels of the financial world, his views changed... He has seen first hand how a group of "elite gatekeepers" is undermining our Constitution... And how they caused everyday Americans to miss out on a $2.4 trillion wealth explosion. The only solution to bring back real freedom to America? A new "Liberty Code" that's minting up to 25,000 millionaires per month. Find out for yourself what the "elite gatekeepers" have been trying to hide from you. [Click here for the full story.]( - Painful Lessons But despite their treasure of experience and insight, people try hard to forget. And in last month’s issue of The Bonner-Denning Letter, our coauthor Dan Denning described a world gripped by a major bout of amnesia. [Paid up Bonner-Denning Letter subscribers can catch up [here](. To subscribe, [click here]( It has forgotten where it came from and how it got to where it is. And now, it is condemned to relearn thousands of years’ worth of painful lessons. Its money is fake. Its interest rates are determined by bureaucrats and experts, not by buyers and sellers of credit. Its governments spend far more than they can afford. [Featured: Have a Visa or Mastercard? Get Ready To Shred Them!]( Its leading economists and politicians live in a fantasy world, where they think they can command markets to do whatever they please. And its world-improvers are bound and determined to remake our whole society according to their own claptrap ideas. Prepare to suffer! Your earnings (both from selling your time and saving your money) will be repressed, says Dan. Your costs, meanwhile, will rise mercilessly. Recommended Link [Welcome to an empire of debt]( [image]( Our credit system is currently sitting at $68 trillion. It’s the largest debt ceiling in the history of the world – in fact, it’s more than twice the value of every single home in America put together. It’s the most crucial part of our economy. And despite stagnant wages and rising costs, America still appears to be getting richer and richer (at least on paper). And there’s the problem… This massive credit system is about to collapse. But this system has a dark secret about where they’re going to get money to pay off this massive debt. This will affect EVERY American citizen! [Click here before it’s too late]( -- Clumsy Ideologues Want to know what it might be like? Just look at Venezuela. Once the richest people of Latin America, desperate Venezuelans have been reduced to gnawing on cats and dogs, by some accounts. The Miami Herald reports: In the city’s dump, more evidence of hunger-driven desperation: dismembered dogs, cats, donkeys, horses and pigeons have been found since last year, all skinned or plucked, with signs of having been eaten, according to the city’s garbage teams. “Sometimes we only find the animal’s heads, guts and legs. We used to see this very little in the past, but this practice is now out of control and on the rise,” said Robert Linares, who works in waste disposal at the dump for the city. And now… despite the compiled wisdom of generations’ worth of trial and error… and the example of Caracas, right in front of our eyes… …much of the modern, developed world seems to want to re-run the experiment. 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