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Gary North
Written by Gary North on December 14, 2011
This is not “black helicopters” stuff. This is, as they say, the real deal. This appeared in Stars and Stripes, the news site of the U.S. Army. A county sheriff in North Dakota had a search warrant for six missing cows in late June. Wait a minute! Why does a sheriff in the wide open […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 14, 2011
Gun control advocates inside the United Nations are attempting to pass an international arms-control treaty. If the Senate ratifies it, the supply of guns will decline. Meanwhile, demand is rising. Consider this report. “We predict that a global Arms Trade Treaty will come into force late this year,” a report in the Jan. 2012 issue […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 12, 2011
Michael Moore is the multimillionaire producer of anti-free market movies. He says there is plenty of money to run the U.S. government. Just tax the rich. Mr. Moore would do well to read the report by Iowahawk on what this government is costing us, and how long the money would fund the government if it […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 12, 2011
This video is great. It reports on an estimate made of the Illinois government’s unnecessary spending by convicted ex-governor Rod Blagojevich: $14.4 billion. He received a sentence of 14 years in prison: about one year for each billion dollars. The story is about his corruption, but what is interesting is that most of the costs […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 8, 2011
What you are about to read may seem too far off the wall to be taken seriously. But, after you have examined the evidence, you will see that our problem is not that this story is off the wall; it is off the radar. The public is unaware that the federal government is preparing to […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 8, 2011
In November, gold ETFs (exchange traded funds) were popular. Investors bought $3.6 billion worth of these funds. This was up four-fold in one month. This was double the $1.7 billion invested in “plain Jane” corporate bonds. Why? Investors are either betting on inflation, which seems unlikely to happen near term, or else they fear a major […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 6, 2011
The U.S. Postal Service, better known as Snail Mail, will soon become more snail-like. It is going to slow delivery times. The U.S. Postal Service, having lost 29 percent of its first-class mail volume in the last decade, will slow its delivery service beginning next spring — the first time in 40 years — in […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 5, 2011
There is lots of news today about how the newly non-elected leader of Italy is proposing spending cuts. That’s what the headlines say. The New York Times reports: In the process, European leaders will begin to change the fundamental structure of the union, creating a form of centralized oversight of national budgets, with sanctions for […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 5, 2011
What is the American dream? A good job at a decent wage. This matters even more than owning your own home. A pair of historical charts show that this dream ceased to be a reality in 2008. They show that total non-farm employment declined in 2001, then shot up in Greenspan’s bubble. But employment fell […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 2, 2011
New IRS rules target your hard disk drive. The IRS already can get your G-mail or Yahoo Mail data. But that’s not enough. Are you aware of the following? In case you missed it, on October 18, the IRS issued what’s called a “Chief Counsel Advice” (CCA) concerning what it calls “original electronic data files.” […]
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