Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Remnant Review The best description of the reversal of fortune is Mary’s Magnificat, recorded in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 1, verses 46-55. “He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree” (v. 52). This was a fundamental theme in the Old Testament. We are told that those who [...]
Continue reading →There is a survey for everything, it seems. One of them annually measures public trust in leaders and institutions. It’s called the Edelman Trust Barometer. Clever, right? A barometer tells you if a storm is coming. A big storm is coming. When trust fades, legitimacy follows. When legitimacy fades, revolutions occur in bad times, that [...]
Continue reading →You probably knew about three of them. Economist Jeffrey Sachs lists them, and adds a fourth. 1. The military-industrial (-Washington) complex. 2. The Wall Street-Washington complex 3. The oil-transportation complex. There is a fourth. Guess what it is. If you are stuck, you will understand perfectly when you click the link.
Continue reading →On Friday, October 26, I delivered a speech at the 30th anniversary conference of the Mises Institute. I spoke on how the Establishment has maintained the official explanation of Japan’s supposedly unprovoked bombing of Pearl Harbor — an explanation not easily believed, once you know the facts leading up to the attack. This speech takes [...]
Continue reading →The Darwinists have failed in the United States. They have controlled the colleges since at least 1885. They have controlled the public schools, K-12, since at least 1925. What has it gotten them? Not much. Around 85% of Americans reject Darwinism, according to a Gallup poll. The poll’s summary: Forty-six percent of Americans believe in [...]
Continue reading →The most famous defection from the Buckley wing of the conservative movement was Garry Wills. That was in the late 1960s. But there was another, less famous: a lawyer who reversed course in the 1990s. Yesterday, I received an email from him. It was a response to my article on Obama. I am an attorney [...]
Continue reading →The top 100,000 people in the world with very high net worth — at least $30 million to invest — lost money in 2011. They are down an estimated 5%. They are not yet in bread lines, of course. But it reminds us that the capital markets are unpredictable. There can be down years, even [...]
Continue reading →There will be death panels. When the government takes over medical finding, there must be triage. Panels will decide: (1) Who cannot be saved; (2) who don’t need to be saved; (3) who is left over. That is what battlefield medicine has decided ever since World War I. Battlefield medicine is government medicine. All the [...]
Continue reading →F. A. Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom in 1943. It was published in 1944. Americans who read the 1945 Readers Digest version liked it. University professors didn’t. This is one more bit of evidence that American voters have more sense than university professors. Are you surprised? When Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, he [...]
Continue reading →How are America’s public schools doing? Lousy, says a report from the Council on Foreign Relations, the most influential Establishment organization. Defenders of private education have been saying this for half a century. The CFR has finally acknowledged the problem. The CFR’s “task force” has announced that the failure of tax-funded K-12 education is the [...]
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