01/01/01
Too bad about the crusades, the persecutions, the pogroms, the gulags, the exterminations, the inquisitions, the Black Death, slavery, sans culottes, Rousseau, death camps, religious wars, secular wars, the Hundred Years War, the martyrdom of St. Joan of Arc, Gettysburg, Wounded Knee, Sedan, Ypres, Kristalnacht, Nagasaki, Dresden, the Warsaw ghetto, the Huns, the Golden Horde, the massacre at Cajamarco, the Rape of Nanking, Red Guards, lynchings, television, the Tech Bubble, tort lawyers, Picasso, Pollack, Corbusier, the Third Reich, Vanilla Ice, Lee Greenwood, the Spice Girls, Vatican II, Glen Burnie, and Janet Reno.
But that is [almost] all behind us now. Shed a tear. Say goodbye. It is a New Era.
The third millennium after the birth of Christ got off to a good start here in Ouzilly. The sun is shining. That is a good sign – the world has apparently not come to an end yet. Our species is still extant. So, there is hope. Perhaps the next millennium will be better than the last.
Not that I have any complaints. The 2nd millennium was good to me.
Best wishes to you and your family for the years to come.
Bill Bonner
Ouzilly, France
January 1, 2001
Addison Wiggin is the editorial director of The Daily Reckoning, and executive publisher of Agora Financial, an independent financial research firm based in Baltimore, Maryland. His second editions of international best-sellers Financial Reckoning Day Fallout and The New Empire of Debt, which he co-authored with Bill Bonner, were updated in 2009. His third book, The Demise of the Dollar… and Why it’s Even Better for Your Investments was updated in 2008, the same year he wrote I.O.U.S.A. Read more about Wiggin’s best-selling books here.
Wiggin is the executive producer and co-writer of I.O.U.S.A. an acclaimed documentary nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the 2009 Critics Choice Award and shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. Wiggin is a three-time New York Times best-selling author whose work has been recognized by The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, Worth, The New York Times, The Washington Post as well as major network news programs.
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