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Written by Gary North on February 3, 2015
In 20 years, there will be no taxi drivers. In less than a decade, they will begin to be replaced. Uber is now working with Carnegie-Mellon University to do research on this. But this is not news. This story appeared in May 2014. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick sat for a keynote interview at Code Conference […]
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 January 3, 2015
Around the world, governments are trying to limit the Internet. These efforts are futile. The technology of evading the government is governed by Moore’s law: a doubling of capacity every 12 months. The governments are governed by Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time allotted for its completion.” We see headlines like […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 22, 2014
Central planning by the federal government is officially opposed by conservatives until you show them a marker that says “United States” on one side, and “Mexico” on the other. Then: “Congress needs to build a fence!” The believers in fences offer many arguments. Some of them say this: “Those people want to get free government […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 27, 2014
There is fear that computerization will produce mass unemployment over the next 30 years. The computers will do the work of hundreds of millions of workers, leaving no jobs for these displaced workers. One implication is this, we are told: the federal government will have to put them on welfare. Otherwise, they will starve. They […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 27, 2014
The New York Times finally got around to contacting the IRS about the IRS’s long-time practice of stealing money out of people’s bank accounts — people who have committed no crime. This is part of the civil asset forfeiture program. The government agency — federal, state, or local — seizes your money. You are never […]
Continue reading →Written by Robert Murphy on October 17, 2014
I saw several people denouncing this on social media, and I assumed they were exaggerating. But no, the city of Houston has been subpoenaing local pastors for written copies of their sermons. As the Houston Chronicle explains: Houston’s embattled equal rights ordinance took another legal turn this week when it surfaced that city attorneys, in […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 20, 2014
Written by Gary North on June 12, 2014
You may have heard of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is held annually at Davos, Switzerland. It’s where the super-rich meet each year. You can’t get in. Neither can I. Libertarians have a similar meeting. It is held in Las Vegas. You can get in. So can I. It’s a shame they don’t have […]
Continue reading →Written by John Odermatt on May 17, 2014
Everyone has an annoying friend, or at least an annoying acquaintance that doesn’t understand common courtesy or how to conduct themselves appropriately in public settings. Some people are unlucky enough to know of or to be harassed by an annoying enemy that pursues a personal vendetta well past the point of acceptable interaction. Annoying people […]
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