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Gary North
Written by Gary North on December 29, 2014
Here are three rules of thumb: 1. Programmers are usually late. 2. The program will not work as promised. 3. Programmers should not be allowed to write advertising copy. With this in mind, consider this offer. These programmers say they will soon release a program that will let anyone create a custom website without any […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 23, 2014
“Pinkos produce red ink.” — North’s law of unregulated media The Huffington Post is a major liberal outlet. It has never made a profit. At the end of 2013, AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong told Reuters he expected the site to be profitable in 2014. But during an interview earlier this month at Business Insider’s […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 11, 2014
In a truly dumb move, the German government passed a law prohibiting Google News from publishing any snippets from news sites unless it pays a royalty. Google complied. It now publishes only the headlines and a small photo. No snippets. Web traffic for one publisher has fallen by 40%. The traffic from Google News fell […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 10, 2014
Political cartoons expose the hypocrisy of politicians. They remind us every day that we are being led by people with truly bad judgment. They amuse us because we know they are accurate. They use exaggeration to drill through to reality. They are altogether positive. They are also useful for teaching the modern history of the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 7, 2014
There are times when I think that Left-wing celebrities have lost all connection with reality. Lena Dunham wrote an autobiography. She revealed startling facts about her earlier behavior regarding herself and her younger sister. The passages are graphic — self-incriminating to a degree that truly is unique. She hired a lawyer to threaten the site […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 9, 2014
Matt Drudge is estimated to be worth $90 million. Why? Because he is the greatest headline writer in history. He knows what interests readers. He has millions of readers. Here is what interests readers this morning. This indicates the public’s fascination with Ebola. It is not panic yet, but great curiosity. This creates a problem […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 4, 2014
Recently, I had some fun with John Mauldin’s 65th birthday. I kidded his strategy. Mauldin is famous in the financial publishing industry for his pioneering strategy of publishing articles by some of the nation’s most astute financial commentators in his weekly newsletter. Then, a year later, when some columnist’s warning comes true, investors around the […]
Continue reading →Posted on October 3, 2014
(Dallas) — Financial columnist John Mauldin is 65 today. “This is hard to believe,” said James Grant, the noted specialist on interest rates and bow ties. “He has been around so long, I thought he was at least 70.” Mauldin is famous in the financial publishing industry for his pioneering strategy of publishing articles by […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 30, 2014
The liberal WaPo got bought last year by Jeff Bezos, who runs Amazon. It has just announced a freeze on pension benefits. The sinking ship of print media is doomed. It is a delight to see. All those liberals; so few lifeboats! They had hoped. They had dreamed. They had trusted management. Now they are […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 29, 2014
This is an interesting development. At dawn on 17 March the inhabitants of Los Angeles were woken by a mild tremor. Less than three minutes later the Los Angeles Times website published an initial piece on the subject, at first sight a wire drafted in haste by a press agency: “A shallow magnitude 4.7 earthquake […]
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