Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
If there was any question about the impact of Edward Snowden’s revelations about digital spying on Americans, the sales of George Orwell’s classic novel on Big Brother dispels them. It has moved from lower than 7,000 to #125 on Amazon’s best-seller list. The anti-utopian novel was published in 1949. It is the story of a [...]
Continue reading →Edward Snowden is now the talk of the town — and the world. His story on the NSA’s PRISM spying system has given exposure to a story that NSA expert James Bamford had exposed in 2008, but which no one in the mainstream media bothered to promote. Snowden went to the Washington Post first, but [...]
Continue reading →Four words: “Get to the point.” I don’t like bloated, poorly written articles like the one I have linked to today. It’s all about how readers don’t finish reading articles. I did not finish reading his. “You don’t have to eat a whole rotten apple to know it’s rotten.” When this guy learns how to [...]
Continue reading →Like a lot of American liberals in the 1930s, John F. Kennedy thought that fascism worked just fine. This fact has recently received brief attention in the British Leftist newspaper, The Independent. There has been a blackout on the story in the mainstream media. The memory hole is still deep, although the Internet is keeping [...]
Continue reading →The liberal media took another major hit. First quarter earnings at the Post were down 85% from last year. There is no economic recovery at the Washington Post. This is good news. The staggering dinosaurs of print media, owned by left-wing Democrats, are all caught in the digital tar pit. Newspapers’ influence is waning. Their [...]
Continue reading →This is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most scurrilous incidents in academic publishing. The victim was Ludwig von Mises. The perpetrator was Yale University Press. Yale University Press published the 1949 edition of Human Action. Sales were much higher than the editor had expected. It was a 900-page treatise on economics, written by [...]
Continue reading →Half of the American newspaper industry reported a revenue loss in 2012 of only 2%. This was reported as a triumph. We don’t know how well the other half of the industry did.. The story said that some newspapers are charging online subscriptions. I know the New York Times is. I don’t pay anything. Do [...]
Continue reading →I publish Tea Party Economist five days a week. It looks as though I will soon be facing competition. Maybe from you. There is a free mobile phone app called Flipboard. It lets you get access to lots of Web stories on any topic. You pick the topic. If you want to create your own [...]
Continue reading →Variety, the gossip newspaper for Hollywood for almost 80 years, has published its last daily issue. It’s the end of an era, fortunately. Published on paper, nobody under age 50 read it. It was long overdue for the last print run. One by one they go. Nobody really cares. It will be online. It will [...]
Continue reading →Do we want the federal government to continue to spend millions of dollars to digitize old newspapers? Or do we want this guy to do it for free as a hobby? You decide.
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