Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Posted on November 12, 2013
Executive Order — Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – PREPARING THE UNITED STATES FOR THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 21, 2013
They promised! This was published in August 2011. A US company says it will have a nuclear-powered prototype vehicle on the road within two years. Laser Power Systems from Connecticut is developing a method of propulsion that uses thorium to produce electricity to power a car engine. Thorium is an element similar to uranium and […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 18, 2013
Government-owned electricity plants are facing growing competition from the solar panel industry. Today, about 5% of firms’ electricity is generated in-house. But this is rising. Wal-mart thinks its solar-generated share will be 20% by 2020. The key is real estate: empty roofs. The company can put solar cells on its roofs. This lets the firm […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 5, 2013
I am always astounded at what passes for economic analysis in the media. This is a recent example. Bloomberg ran a headline: Widening Trade Deficit Signals Improving U.S. Demand: Economy. I see. A trade deficit. Americans are borrowing more from abroad — foreign lenders — to buy things. What kind of things? We read: “The […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 26, 2013
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Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 19, 2013
This is a nice idea. Spray an invisible film on glass, and it cuts your cooling bill permanently. It’s real. It’s coming.
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 6, 2013
All over the world, the mainstream media have used the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing to make comments on fears regarding peaceful nuclear power. The killing of 70,000 people was an act of war. Nuclear power is peaceful. But the mainstream media are far more opposed to nuclear power than nuclear weapons. They never […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 4, 2013
You may remember the promise of the neocons in 2003: America’s war with Iraq would be paid for by Iraqi oil. Besides, the war would cost only $50 billion — $60 billion, tops. The war cost $2.2 trillion — $3 trillion, tops — and the oil is being gobbled up by China. Oh, well, they […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 27, 2013
The decline of oil in response to falling manufacturing figures from China will continue to pressure the Consumer Price Index down. The price of natural gas has also fallen. This is good news for consumers. The CPI went negative 0.4% in April. The Median CPI, which is less volatile than the CPI, went up by […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 2, 2013
In his State of the Union Address in 2011, President Obama called on Congress to fork over more money for electric car subsidies. “With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.” The total […]
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