Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
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 →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 →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 [...]
Continue reading →Shoppers paid no attention to the would-be union members who picketed on Black Friday. When it comes to solidarity with the would-be union and grabbing good deals, Americans know where not to stand: outside the store. The would-be union declared it a big success. It was a flop. I went to both Walmarts in my [...]
Continue reading →Maybe you have not yet signed up for my Tip of the Week eletter. It is mailed out every Saturday morning. It costs nothing to subscribe. To read hundreds of back issues of money-saving tips, click here: http://www.garynorth.com/public/department54.cfm I figure that most households can use ways to cut costs. I find ways to do this. So [...]
Continue reading →Walmart and American Express have teamed up to provide a debit card program for Walmart shoppers. The card will be called bluebird, as in “bluebird of happiness.” Their targeted market is poor people who do not have bank accounts. No one in the banking industry wants them. So, Walmart spotted an opportunity. A poor person [...]
Continue reading →When you pay cash, meaning with currency, you can sometimes get a discount. But not at Wal-Mart. At Wal-Mart, they rip up cash. Anyway, that is what one woman says happened. She bought some items at Wal-Mart. The person at the checkout counter knew someting was suspicious. This was currency. Paper money. First, he tore [...]
Continue reading →I keep coming back to this story every five years or so. New subscribers have not read about it. Old-time subscribers forget. The secret is the Frantz oil filter. It uses a roll of toilet paper as the filter. “An oil filter that uses toilet paper. What a joke!” It is not a joke. But [...]
Continue reading →In recent customer ratings, WalMart slipped to 69. The highest ranked supermarket is Publix. That’s the way it is at our house. We moved to Georgia in late 2008. We can now shop at Publix. That’s where my wife prefers to shop. The environment is clean. The staff is made up of very customer-pleasing people [...]
Continue reading →If you sell anything for a living, use this as a model of how not to run a business. My wife wanted to find a dentist for us. We have not been to one since we moved to Georgia in 2008. checked with Angie’s list. She said this dentist’s office had high ratings. I don’t [...]
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