| By Bill Bonner Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Me licap se snaw forponde he dep pa burg stille. (I like the snow because it makes the city quiet) – An example of old English grammar WEST RIVER, MARYLAND – What a beautiful day, yesterday. The snow came down, off and on, from dawn to dusk. Outside, it was quiet. Still. Beautiful. We sat in front of the fire… We drank tea… We chatted, putting another log on the fire from time to time. And we read the news. Here’s Business Insider: A White House economist knocked back a GOP proposal for stimulus checks of $1,000 on Monday night, characterizing it as too little to satisfy President Joe Biden. Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Economic Advisors Council, said that Biden would want more than the offer from ten Republican senators. Biden is pushing for $1,400 checks. The Republicans somehow know that $1,000 a head will do the trick. The Democrats are damned sure it will take $1,400. Neither side has any idea. The whole idea of stimmy checks – money handed out by the feds, who don’t really have any money, to people who don’t really need it – is baloney. But who’s going to say so? | Recommended Link | | BUY ALERT: Little-Known Law Could Send These Stocks Soaring Again Most investors have no clue it exists… But the little-known law pictured above fueled one of the biggest bull-runs in stock market history. It’s already pumped $1.2 trillion into a tiny sector of the economy. And the amount of money increases every year. In other words, this trend is accelerating. But only a handful of stocks benefit from this law. | | | -- | Bad Start Meanwhile, back in the kitchen… Our son came back from Ireland. Two daughters came down from Baltimore, one with her three children. Inside, the snow holiday was warm and lively. At about 11 a.m., a figure came up the hill, partly obscured by the snow. It was an Amazon delivery driver. But why was she afoot? “Uh… My van is stuck at the bottom of the hill. Could you help me get it out?” Our masculine pride took over. “Sure… I’ll bring the tractor and a chain. We should be able to get you out.” A second later, we remembered that the tractor is almost useless on icy hills. But maybe we could find a way to help. The van was at the bottom of the hill. But it was not stuck. It was just unable to get up the slope to get out. The young woman wore a blue knit cap over her purple hair and a blue plastic bag, affixed with a rubber band, over one of her Uggs. We guessed she was not the most experienced person behind the wheel. “How long have you been doing this?” we asked. “This is my third day,” came the reply. “This is not good.” We offered to take over at the wheel. We would back up the other side as far as we could and then get up some speed to get out. Amazon uses Dodge vans with front-wheel drive. That should give us the control and traction we needed. We executed the maneuver almost flawlessly. But as the van approached the peak of the hill, its wheels spun. It lost speed and came to a halt about 50 feet short of the top. “Oh darn… So close…” said the young woman. “Don’t worry, I’ll try again.” [Featured: Firm That Predicted 9/11 Issues Urgent Warning: Move Your Money Now] Well and Truly Stuck Backing down a slick hill, however, is not the same as driving up. The front wheel traction helped keep the front wheels on the road. But the back wheels went where they would’st. Suddenly, the van tilted over and came to a stop. It had slid off the narrow road, nearly at the very bottom of the hill. “Uh oh…” “Yeah, uh oh… Not good.” Because now, the van was well and truly stuck, off the road… in a ditch. Nor was there any plausible way to get it out. If we pulled it up, we risked turning it over on its side. “I’m sorry I got your truck stuck,” we apologized. “Just tell your boss I did it.” “I can’t do that… I shouldn’t have let you drive. It’s against company policy. Let’s just say that I backed up and slid off the road.” “Oh… okay… Whatever.” Soon after, an Amazon supervisor showed up. A young man drove down the hill to where we were standing. He surveyed the situation. Then, getting in the van, he spun the tires. “I don’t think that’s going to help,” we offered advice. The young man was not much more “handy” than the young woman. The tires went deeper into the mud. The van tilted even further over to the side. We offered to try to pull it with the tractor, but it looked hopeless. Putting the chain on the rear, we lifted it up… but the van seemed ready to tip over on its side. “Whoa! We better stop. We don’t want to do any damage.” | Recommended Link | | Millionaire's Big Prediction From Living Room Couch 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. | | | -- | Tow Truck After about 20 minutes, another young man appeared on the scene… having come to visit our daughter. He parked at the top of the hill. “Gosh, this doesn’t look good. Anything I can do to help?” He was followed by an older man with long, gray hair and a wide and scraggly beard, wearing reflective overalls. He walked down the hill towards the small group and identified himself. “Someone heeya called fo a tow truck?” he said in a distinctive tidewater accent. “Yeah,” the Amazon supervisor replied, feeling perhaps a little unequal to the situation. “I thought we might need you.” He was still in the van, spinning the wheels to show how stuck he was. “I woun do that, if I was you,” said the graybeard. “I doan think I can pull this out,” he continued. “I’ll jes get stuck down heeya, too. Besides, you’re in my way. You gotta get your cahr outta heeya fust.” The Amazon supervisor, an agreeable fellow, got in his car. He put it in reverse and tried to back up the hill he had so recently come down. That clearly was not going to work. “Turn aroun ova thaya,” said the tow-truck driver. “You kint go up thaya backasswards.” The young man turned around, but he still didn’t seem to get the principle of momentum. Rather than getting a running start, he tried to inch up the hill. “Hold on.” We offered to do some road clearing. We scraped away some of the ice and slush in front of him – a run of about 50 yards – with the blade of the tractor. [Featured: The #1 Tech Stock of 2021] Bourgeois Materialism It was while we were thus engaged that another man appeared on the scene, wearing what looked like a blue uniform. He was a Federal Express delivery guy. “I wasn’t sure I could get in and out… so I parked at the end of the road.” “You did well,” we congratulated him. “I got a package for Mrs. Bonner.” Keeping our thoughts private, we blamed Mrs. Bonner for this whole comedy. Since we returned from Argentina, she no longer went out to stores; she did her shopping online. A delivery van came almost every day. “We already have so much ‘stuff.’ Why do we need more?” we had asked her. “Look, we needed another blanket. And I got a new lamp. And… what else? The shower curtain needed to be replaced.” “Bourgeois materialism,” we muttered under our breath. “I’ll come up and get it,” we told the FedEx guy. Bigger Rig Once the road was cleared, the tow-truck driver repeated his suggestion. “We gotta get this cahr outa heeya,” he said, referring to the Amazon supervisor’s car. We would have pulled it with the tractor and a chain, but we could find nowhere to hook the chain. The entire front assembly seemed made of plastic. So, the whole troupe – young woman, supervisor, tow-truck driver, friend of the family, FedEx driver, and yours truly – got behind the car. Pushing, slipping, falling down – we gradually got it to the top of the hill. “This ain’t the way to do things,” said the bearded man, breathing heavily from the exertion. “Well, we got it out of the way,” we replied. “Now you can get your tow truck down there.” Then, turning back to the van… “My truck woan pull that out… I called a buddy… with a bigger rig. We’re gonna liff it up.” | Recommended Link | Elites Moving to Desolate Islands – Why?
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MAILBAG Praise for Bill’s objectivity in the Diary… and a dear reader’s encouragement to leave President Trump be... For a man who seems to enjoy, as much as anybody, the ironic twists of fate and destiny that life provides: I have rarely read such layered, tongue-in-cheek editorializing. I’ll read again, but it’s almost impossible to tell in what “camp” the writer resides, due to every subject being roundly scrutinized. Many people have a difficult time with the notion of libertarianism when it’s lived out loud in a community of other libertarians. It’s useful but not practical. Other than that, it’s an admirable outlook. I’ve enjoyed Bill’s writing for years. – Daniel F. Hi Bill, you have got great insight and possess many good human qualities, but please do not swallow the bitter pill, especially not on behalf of Mr. Trump. He is not worthy of your ire. – Robert W. Meanwhile, mixed reviews from dear readers on Bill’s “Sic Transit Gloria Trumpi” essays (catch up here and here)... Well, Bill, your rants sound like you’re writing an editorial from The New York Times about Trump. And it sounds like you have been watching CNN and MSNBC 24 hours a day. I guess it has soaked in as a truism for you. Sad commentary. – Dave E. I think that you are just another TRUMP HATER. And if you are so great, what have you done to help we peons who are always told, “The Experts Say”? I’ve expressed my views and that is all I get – “experts say.” And I continue to work and pay my taxes. And more and more of my freedoms are taken away. If you are so sure Trump is wrong, why don’t you run for office and see how far you get? – Betty L. Maybe Bin Laden won. Reading Bill’s musings on the decline of the American Empire, I couldn’t help remembering a statement from my father-in-law, a rock-solid American and World War II vet. In the days after 9/11, with tears in his eyes, he said, “This has changed the country forever. You have lost freedoms you will never get back.” At the time, I thought that was an exaggeration. In hindsight, I now think he recognized 9/11, and the agencies it spawned, as the tipping point that started the slide to the Orwellian government we are now facing. – James K. Was the U.S. response to 9/11 the beginning of the end for America’s freedoms, as James believes? Was the country truly changed forever? Write us at feedback@rogueeconomics.com. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… It’s not impossible. Master trader Jeff Clark has done it. Master trader Jeff Clark has found a way to take a seemingly ordinary stock and use it to potentially generate thousands – or even tens of thousands of dollars – EVERY MONTH without doing anything crazy or complicated. Check out the details right here, including the name and ticker of this stock. 
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