Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
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Written by Gary North on July 4, 2014
“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding” (Proverbs 17:28). Recently, I received an email from someone I had never heard of before. She did not tell me what article she had read, or what book of mine she had […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 17, 2014
A GaryNorth.com site member asked this question: Why has Keynesianism prevailed? Dr. North, In the 1950’s Henry Hazlett wrote The Failure of the New Economics which demolished The General Theory line by line with clear, irrefutable arguments. I can’t imagine another field of study in which a theory can be dominant after such complete debunking. […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 15, 2014
This one is being inflicted on America’s third graders. As Twitchy notes, this flawed “front-end estimation” method wasn’t invented by the people behind Common Core. The concept — which refers to the correct answer to an addition problem as merely “reasonable” and allows students to be off by over 22 percent in their estimation — […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 14, 2014
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) made a bold prediction about the remaining presidential elections in his lifetime during an interview with Glenn Beck that aired Thursday. “I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime … unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party,” Paul said evenly. “And it has to be a […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 13, 2014
Jay Leno did not have to leave The Tonight Show. He simply decided he wanted to, that it was time to go. But he did not have to go. This is how he could have kept The Tonight Show. Scene. A meeting in the office of Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment. Leno: “I want to […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 12, 2014
Politicians across the globe are assuring us that: 1) The “recovery” is either here or right around the corner. In fact, it is neither. 2) Remaining in the EU is the best option for Greece, Spain, Italy (and France). It is not. 3) Soaking the rich is the answer to a multitude of problems. It […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 11, 2014
So says a Washington Post liberal. Oh, how I wish it were true. But it’s nice to get credit even when credit isn’t due. (It’s like the federal government.) To a remarkable degree, our politics are haunted by the principles of Austrian economics and their sweeping hostility to any actions by government to keep downturns […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 10, 2014
Facing critics from both the left and the right, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo named a panel to try to fix the implementation of Common Core in the state. Cuomo’s action comes after New York State United Teachers, the largest teachers union for the Empire State, joined the chorus of critics and called for a […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 8, 2014
Written by Gary North on February 7, 2014
My library will go to the Mises Institute. Let me explain why. The Mises Institute has very bright summer interns: Ph.D. candidates working on their dissertations. It brings in scholars to assist them. But I hesitated. The Auburn University library is across the street, and it is a fine library. The Institute is not in […]
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