How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster

Bill Bonner perceives the proverbial "handwriting on the wall", and has translated its implications for our futures.

If you read only one book to understand these surreal times, HORMEGEDDON is that book.

It's Bill's best book so far - and a most enjoyable read.

Well written and insightful as to the failures of good ideas.
Beware of people with ideas who bare no responsibility or consequence of the failure thereof.
- aka public legislators or academic advisors outside of their area of profession.

I chose this rating because I enjoyed the book. By the way, we'll always have government. A little bit of government is good and too much is bad. The human condition insures that we will have too much government most of the time.

A click bait expert with alarmist drivel and no solutions to his own Armageddon scenarios. With "fake" news as a topic today I would caution you about people like him and his sales pitches. With experts like this who needs Godzilla, Spongebob makes more sense.

Hormageddon is just one more tome being spun out by Doom and Gloom Hedge Fund Economists that claim to have "the Answer".
If you spend enough money, they will tell how to make money even in their predicted disaster economy to come... namely...
sell books to fearful desperate investors, then steer them towards investments you manage.
The ideas, while admittedly poorly explained and lavished with folksy wisdom,
are stripped from the work of Mises, Hayek, and other Austrian School Economics Theorists.
Read about their ideas first before you waste time on this pulp fiction.
Suggest: The Poisoned Spring of Economic Libertarianism by Angus Sibley.

This is an excellent book that explores how rising levels of complexity in society lead to dangerous ends. Power and influence are basically accretive in nature, tending to build up to the point of collapse. Mr. Bonner explores this phenomena in regards to topics like Debt, Security, Government and Information. The book is well-written and interesting, although there isn't much offered in terms of solutions to these mounting problems. Mr. Bonner has enough respect for his readers to allow them to draw their own conclusions and I appreciate that.

“Hormegeddon” is simply brilliant. If you are familiar with Bill Bonner then you need to read this book – it is his best. If you are not familiar with Bill then you are in for a treat as he has a unique ability to blend wisdom, wit, and humor in a way that is both enlightening and hilarious at the same time.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the major problems of our day and it exposes the fallacy that is collectivist central planning in a way that is undeniably logical. The true treasure contained within the book is not the macro-analysis, however, but something even more important. What the book really offers is a holistic way of thinking that anyone can adopt for themselves if they so choose.

How valuable is public information? What can economics tell us about how the world actually works? What is the true nature of government? What is the future of civilization? Can a Democrat drive better than Republicans, Communists, and Riverkeepers?

Bill tackles all of these questions and many more in his masterpiece, “Hormegeddon”.

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Bill Bonner's Hormegeddon is striking in the manner in which it introduces an aspect into the affairs of economics, governments and humanity that until this enlightening work, received but scant attention. Suddenly Hormegeddon enters into focus not unlike the arrival of Quantum Mechanics into the world of Newtonian Physics. Suddenly, at least to this reader, an entirely new perspective emerges. Bill Bonner is the Max Planck of what can now be described as Quantum Economics.
Hormegeddon is an engrossing read as well as an amazingly enlightening and informative to those of us that might lack the perception and insight into the combined nature of both humanity and economics possessed by Mr. Bonner. The common man now has a champion to ferry him through the intricacies of why excesses can have consequences of disaster and many and varied unintended consequences. This thoughtful tome elaborates as to why central planning is a fallacy and leads to the very consequences described by Mr. Bonner as Hormeggedon. Ludwig von Mises would be pleased at the pointed and succinct fashion that Hormegeddon points this out. This thoughtful exercise in the way things work has the potential of becoming an entirely new philosophy unto itself, my reference to having a commonality to that of Quantum Mechanics exemplifies the nature of this work to assume greater significance as a philosophy. I noted Mr. Bonners frequent references to Nitzsche as well as one to the ever popular Mae West, adds a certain unique perspective to this enlightening work of financial misdeeds. A thoroughly entertaining as well as very informative work. Unfortunately I fear that the numerous and ever increasing numbers of Zombies that currently inhabit humanity could well prove to be an impediment to this work receiving the recognition that it deserves.

This book is a compilation of random historical facts that have nothing in common and do nothing to prove Bonner's thesis. Two chapters in and I had to put it down. I read business books all the time and this was the worst one I've ever tried reading. Don't waste your time or money on this.

From tobacco farmer to $500 million dollar man. The best economist in America and perhaps the world, bar none. Learn how to protect yourself and the people you love. Bonner will entertain you and change your thinking about politics. Even old dogs can learn new tricks to help when needed.

Brilliant, humorous, thought provoking, a pleasure to read, dividend into one or two page ideas - any one would get you hooked to read the rest. Reminded me of Pogo's famous statement that "We have met the enemy, and it is us." Please read, and consider as holiday present for someone with a sense of humor who enjoys thinking.

This review is from: Hormegeddon: How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster (Paperback)

Excellent, well written book using human nature and psychology to explain our economic reality. Much of the writing is both profound and very pragmatic. It seems that far too many people keep their heads in the sand because they just can't understand or acknowledge what's going on around them, so they keep doing what they've been doing and hope for a different result. Like a visit to an analyst, this guy helps you understand the "why" and then it's up to you how to incorporate it into your life and your decisions.

Bill Bonner clearly explains the things that many of us are intuitively on the periphery of understanding, but at a loss to express. I'm both thankful and jealous that he has the wherewithal and the words to bring to light the issues addressed in his book "Hormegeddon:How Too Much Of A Good Thing Leads To Disaster". Please read this book, and give it to your children, and to professors of economics, and politicians, and policy makers of every ilk. Brilliant! I read it straight through and need another copy that is not so highlighted and marked up to pass along.

Well...same with the rest of these books. The idea never changes.

It's not entirely wrong. When things are at their best, they have nowhere to go but towards their worst.

In other words, it's the same story you've read hundreds of times practically since Shakespeare.

Alarming? Yes.

Interesting? No.

Extremely brilliant writer. Tells the truth without fear of repercussion from the Central Bankers. Everybody needs to read this book and understand what the Feds are doing that is destroying this country. Shame on us for passing these Trillions of debt to our children and grandchildren. Shame, shame, shame.

It was a reasonably well written book with lots of stories and examples of our human problems over the ages. Just like all the other books out there trying to convince us there is no hope of the human race ever surviving together in peace. War, money, oil and energy- all the continuing reasons for disasters. But no solutions, no conclusion, no ending- just the human race is doomed. When I finished the book I felt I had wasted my time and just read another of the doom books that do not solve anything.