Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on August 27, 2016
Honey is a shopping app for Amazon. It lets you check the best prices on Amazon. It’s all automatic. What’s the best price? Is the seller rated highly? Can you save money on shipping? Honey tells you. What about digital discount coupons? Honey searches for them and presents them automatically the check-out. The story is […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 8, 2014
By the time you can afford Krell speakers, you’ll have AM radio ears. This is the grim reality of high fidelity. It’s a race against declining high-frequency hearing. Here is a very depressing pair of charts. Look at frequency perception at older ages. Here is an unbreakable rule: Do not pay more for any component […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 29, 2014
So you want to get into the real estate investment game without having to pick up a plunger to unstop a toilet when your tenant calls in the middle of the night. Your best bet might be a real estate investment trust, or REIT. Like bonds, the key to REITs is the non-correlation of the […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 21, 2014
General Mills, maker of Cheerios, Yoplait and Pillsbury food products, is asking customers for forgiveness, but any appeasement may not come as quickly as the company might hope for. The public apology came in a company blog post published on Saturday and penned by spokeswoman Kirstie Foster, after a New York Times article on April […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 15, 2014
Best-selling author Brad Thor and his family are fleeing the progressive city of Chicago for Nashville. The reasons behind the move are pretty self-explanatory. Thor cited the high taxes and violent crime in Chicago as the main reasons for his departure, Twitchy first noted. To make his point, Thor linked to an article that states […]
Continue reading →Posted on February 15, 2014
Amazon’s recent statement that it’s contemplating raising the price of its free-two-day-shipping membership program by $20 to $40 from its current $79 annual rate has ignited a firestorm of sorts and led to a UBS stock downgrade on Wednesday that cited concern that a significant percentage of existing Prime members won’t renew at a higher […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 28, 2013
Peter Schiff had a great idea. Go into a Walmart parking lot and try to persuade shoppers to accept a 15% increase on their bills. Why? In order to pay Walmart employees $15 an hour. He tells them that he represents an organization called “15 for 15.” Very creative name! Then he presents his plan. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 6, 2013
We are told by reviews that Libre Office is better than Open Office, which for years has been a free alternative to Microsoft Office. Why is Libre Office better? Because there are more coders working on it. “But when Oracle bought Sun, legions of developers abandoned OpenOffice, and instead threw in with a forked version […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on February 28, 2013
I want to buy several pairs of eyeglasses. I want them in several rooms in my house. I am tired of not finding my reading glasses next to my books, my distance vision glasses not in the TV room, etc. I went to an eyeglasses firm in the town’s upscale mall. It was a very […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 3, 2012
The free market is making available low-cost Christmas gifts. Here is an example: a video game that went from $50 to $15 in 7 days. A price war broke out. Amazon drove down the price. Walmart and Target followed suit. It pays to shop online. It pays to wait to buy presents. There is no […]
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