The Lonely Realist is a bridge across the partisan gap, raising questions and making pointed observations about politics, economics, international relations and the markets. Its goal is to raise awareness and inspire thought on controversial issues that impact America and Americans, highlighting issues that should be, but rarely are, the focus of bipartisan discussion.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...

In seeking to promote dialogue, The Lonely Realist is not an advocate of conclusions or remedies. To the extent perceived biases leak into these pages, as they sometimes do, please ignore them. They are inadvertent missteps.

  • “It’s about ‘Fortress America’…, and much more.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Hypothesis: Both Donald Trump and Xi Jinping understand that the Thucydides Trap would represent a disastrous outcome for each country. President Trump appreciates that a Thucydides outcome...

  • “Because Strategy, Inc. is a significant investor in Bitcoin, Bitcoin’s price is being adversely affected by Strategy, Inc.’s price.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... TLR wrote in December 2021 about “Bitcon,” using a label intended to highlight what at...

  • The Lonely Realist now also can be found on Substack at https://substack.com/@thelonelyrealist?utm_source=global-search.Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...

  • “The Iran War has strengthened the Islamic Republic…, or has it?” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Trump announced on May 23rd that a “PEACE Agreement” with Iran “has been largely negotiated” and that the details would be “announced...

Subscribe to The Lonely Realist


More by TLR

The Hypersonic Supreme Court

“Buckle your seat belt. Change has come to American government.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… With Presidential power subject to increasing legislative and judicial constraints and with a post-midterm Congress certain to be deadlocked, a newly-empowered Supreme Court is

Read More »

That Great Sucking Sound

“The West needs to adopt a 21st Century strategy to address the economic, political and military fallout from the Ukrainian War.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… That great sucking sound you’ve been hearing is America being drawn back into

Read More »

The Economics of War – Part 1

“It’s about energy.” – The Lonely RealistLoading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Today’s TLR is a brief follow-up to this past Thursday’s “The Iran War”: One month ago, writing about whether the US Dollar might surrender its reserve currency status, TLR noted that

Read More »

Subscribe to The Lonely Realist

One email, once per week. Unsubscribe anytime.

William (Bill) Natbony is The Lonely Realist, its author and originator. The opinions expressed in TLR are solely Bill’s opinions, have not been edited or reviewed, and do not reflect the views or opinions or any other person.