Comments on: Remembering The Privateer https://bombthrower.com/remembering-the-privateer/ Blowing up the Clown World. Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Jim Lighthall https://bombthrower.com/remembering-the-privateer/#comment-229382 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:09:10 +0000 https://bombthrower.com/?p=609#comment-229382 I knew Bill the Captain when we were school kids and neighbours in Canada. He always knew how to see through the bs. His mum verified that he was reading the London Times by the age of 3 or 4. Also a very good athlete, sprinter and discus if I recall.

]]> By: Jonathan Gilthorpe https://bombthrower.com/remembering-the-privateer/#comment-170825 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:06:23 +0000 https://bombthrower.com/?p=609#comment-170825 I often think back with fond memories about the education I was afforded by Bill Bulter (and Martin Armstrong) – thanks for reminding me.

It was partly largely due to Bill that I bought physical gold in the early 2000s and managed to exit the London housing market at the sweet spot in 2008. Im not rich, but I have managed to maintain/build wealth at key moments due to his insights.

]]> By: Ron Manners https://bombthrower.com/remembering-the-privateer/#comment-146937 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 03:27:47 +0000 https://bombthrower.com/?p=609#comment-146937 Mark,
Thanks for putting this tribute together for Bill.
I was a long-term subscriber and wondered what happened to him.
As I'm due to visit the Gold Coast (Australia in Oct, I intend to look for him. I found your piece instead.

I run a Libertarian think tank in Perth, Australia, and am interested in what you are doing. Where are you located?

ps. I also would like to access his archives & note a similar request from one of your other readers.

Ron
Ron Manners
http://www.mannwest.com
http://www.mannkal.org
Sept 2023

]]> By: Mike M https://bombthrower.com/remembering-the-privateer/#comment-122263 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:29:41 +0000 https://bombthrower.com/?p=609#comment-122263 Is there any where on the internet to access the archives for the privateer ? Buckler has such a way with words & I would like to reread some of the old letters .would happily pay

]]> By: Jack Fortin https://bombthrower.com/remembering-the-privateer/#comment-75653 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:47:54 +0000 https://bombthrower.com/?p=609#comment-75653 Hello Mark …. I too miss the Privateer and through a sense of nostalgia and curiosity, a search brought me to this page. At the time Bill called it quits I did not really fully grasp where he was coming from. I get it now.
Our world in general and the financial sector in particular have become dependent upon serving narratives. The "pandemic" is a perfect example of the general and the particular can be found in the adoption of current interest rates. Both are evasions of reality but completely embraced in what some call "rational discourse".
Reading financial information has become almost mind bending in the contradictions that permeate it. Many writers can show you how to play it but few how to navigate it. Subtle difference?
Point is, like Bill; I have had enough. The financial world has become a sideshow to me that I have been able to extract gold coins from. Time has come to shut it off. The most important things are family and doing things that bring joy into my world. Fixing up an old motorcycle trumps any news in the mainstream. God willing I have the health and freedom to ride it across the country this Summer. The big picture is to be found in your back yard where you smell the roses and watch the birds fly over.
God speed bill.

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