It should be considered when reading this article that Bonner is, and has been, a major player in the capitalist economy. His political-economic orientation appears to be that of fundamentalist capitalist. And, he is a "goldbug". He like his fellow players probably constitute the upper middle class who are the hands-on people who make the system work. The problem for the capitalist class--and they are starting to worry about this--is that these middle class people are starting to worry about how the system works and are asking questions that the ruling capitalist class finds a bit embarrassing.
In this article he focuses on a trend that is very worrying to him: the use of debt to keep the system going. And, even more valuable, is the graph showing to considerable extent how the system currently functions in the US. It reveals far more truth about the US as a capitalist empire than even Bonner seems to be aware of. Here is the graphic.
