Every day in the Diary, we try to understand how things work, fearlessly following our motto: ‘Sometimes right. Sometimes wrong. Always in doubt.’
Longtime readers know that, as part of your Diary subscription, we send you promotional offers on behalf of our friends, our partners, and ourselves.
We hear from subscribers every day who feel annoyed by, and suspicious of, these efforts. We even feel that way ourselves from time to time.
Subscribers don’t like to feel like we are preying on them — like a hawk looking for field mice. We don’t like having to work so hard coming up with snappy new sales pitches. We also don’t like it when customers think we are a bunch of shysters.
But the thing is…our model, which relies on sharing offers from our advertising partners, is the most honest way of doing business we can find.
By that I mean it aligns your interests with our interests. Unlike the mainstream press, we don’t make our money from corporate advertisers.
Our honest goal at the Diary
Instead, we sell ideas, information, opinions, and recommendations. What you see is what you get. There’s no more to it. All we have to offer are words…sometimes sober, sometimes wild.
(As economist John Maynard Keynes put it, ‘Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.’)
In more than three decades in the business, we have built a loyal readership. Our marketing — offering strongly worded opinions and ideas — has helped make that possible. And it is the only thing that makes it possible for us to send out a free daily commentary, for example.
Our daily Diary takes about six hours a day to research and write. And there are a half-dozen other people who edit and make sure that it gets sent out.
You get all of that at no cost to you. All we ask is that you keep an open mind about the other products and services that are offered. That’s the deal.
Regards,
Bill Bonner
Since founding Agora Inc. in 1979, Bill Bonner has found success and garnered camaraderie in numerous communities and industries. A man of many talents, his entrepreneurial savvy, unique writings, philanthropic undertakings, and preservationist activities have all been recognized and awarded by some of America’s most respected authorities. Along with Addison Wiggin, his friend and colleague, Bill has written two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt. Both works have been critically acclaimed internationally. With political journalist Lila Rajiva, he wrote his third New York Times best-selling book, Mobs, Messiahs and Markets, which offers concrete advice on how to avoid the public spectacle of modern finance.