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
Addison Wiggin is the executive publisher of Agora Financial, LLC, a fiercely independent economic forecasting and financial research firm. He’s the creator and editorial director of Agora Financial’s daily 5 Min. Forecast and editorial director of The Daily Reckoning. Wiggin is the founder of Agora Entertainment, executive producer and co-writer of I.O.U.S.A., which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the 2009 Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was also shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. He is the author of the companion book of the film I.O.U.S.A.and his second edition of The Demise of the Dollar… and Why it’s Even Better for Your Investments was just fully revised and updated. 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. He also co-authored international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt with Bill Bonner.
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