Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Posted on July 25, 2015
By Paul Sperry A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.” Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 11, 2015
Unnamed hackers broke into the computer of the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management and stole 21 million records. These records included everything recorded in these people’s background checks. Anyone who underwent a check after Jan. 1, 2000, has had his or her data stolen. The records that were compromised include detailed, sensitive background information, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 20, 2015
The Drive for Exports And the LORD spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good […]
Continue reading →Posted on May 30, 2015
When talking “waste,” Uncle Sam is the world’s specialist. There is a water crisis in the Southwest. So, what is the federal government doing about it? This. State Route 87, the thin band of pavement that approaches the mostly shuttered town of Coolidge, Ariz., cuts through some of the least hospitable land in the country. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 16, 2015
The Curse of Machinery And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 12, 2015
You read that right: $210 trillion. A trillion here, a trillion there: pretty soon, we’re talking big money. Professor Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University testified before the Senate Budget Committee. As usual, his testimony is shocking The U.S. has a $210 trillion “fiscal gap” and “may well be in worse fiscal shape than any developed […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 12, 2015
Americans still think the federal government can and should solve problems. This is their default mode. At the same time, they do not think Washington is competent. This is what is sometimes called cognitive dissonance. Lack of trust is across the boards: in the presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Here are the latest findings. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 20, 2015
In a speech at the Mises Institute, Ron Paul discussed operational secession. State governments are not enforcing federal rules and regulations. This is a quiet movement. There are no fireworks. But it is happening. The speech was picked up by Buzzfeed. Then Matt Drudge ran it as his lead story: left-hand side. When the federal […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 24, 2015
My new book is now typeset: The Covenantal Structure of Christian Economics. You can download it here: http://www.garynorth.com/CovenantalEconomics.pdfIt is different from every other book you have read on economics. It begins with this question: “Who owns this?” This is the most divisive question in economic thought. Because it is divisive, economists ever since Adam Smith […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 30, 2014
A year before ObamaCare was signed into law, this article by Dr. John W. Robbins appeared in his newsletter, Trinity Review: “The Ethics and Economics of Health Care.” He wrote it in 1994, in response to Hillary Clinton’s attempt design a law establishing federal heath care. He wrote: This brings us to the central recognition […]
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