Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on November 26, 2016
It’s here. All but the most creative brick layers had better have a fallback career strategy. This machine does in two days what it takes a crew two weeks to do.
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 12, 2016
Elon Musk is a visionary. He thinks he will build a spaceship to take rich people to Mars, and make a profit. He also thinks he will produce an electric car he can sell at a profit. Along with these visions, he has a vision for a universal federal welfare scheme that will pay the […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 27, 2016
Otherwise, they will take American jobs. Five years from now. . . . Ten years from now. . . . Twenty years from now. . . .
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 31, 2015
This is an amazing video. Over three million people have seen it. Notice that there are a dozen workers on the bridge. There may not be as many as there would have been, had the machine not been invented, but there are still employees. They are skilled employees. Message: don’t be John Henry.
Continue reading →Posted on July 7, 2015
Weeks after introducing a manual method that narrows the number of potential combinations to a specific Master Lock down to just eight, intrepid hacker and engineer Samy Kamkar has developed an open source, 3D-printed robot that applies the technique automatically. Calling his gadget the “Combo Breaker,” Kamkar claims it can crack a common combination lock […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 27, 2015
Ludwig von Mises was a defender of the concept of the division of labor. He rested his entire social philosophy on this concept. This included his doctrines of social peace, market processes, monetary calculation, and private property. He always returned to this theme: the division of labor. This idea of the division of central to […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 13, 2015
Posted on June 13, 2015
Giant new container handling cranes have recently arrived at the Long Beach Container Terminal in California, awkwardly perched aboard a Shanghai Zenhua Shipping (ZPMC) heavy lift vessel. The new cranes have a maximum outreach of 226 feet which allows them to reach over container ships carrying containers 24 across (side by side). They are large […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 7, 2015
A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban “killer robots” before they reach the production stage is to be launched in the United Kingdom by a group of academics, pressure groups and Nobel peace prize laureates. Robot warfare and autonomous weapons, the next step from unmanned drones, are already being worked on by scientists […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 16, 2015
It’s coming. When it comes, Uber will win. The taxi companies will lose. The cities that charge a million dollars per cab will lose. No more medallions! By Friday, the Financial Times reported Apple had started hiring employees from the automotive industry for a secretive new research lab. One of those hires includes Johann Jungwirth, […]
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