Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on October 29, 2012
There comes a time to stop beating a dead horse. But there are full-time beaters of dead horses who just cannot bring themselves to admit that the horse is dead. A recent example of dead-besting is a documentary, Agenda: Grinding America Down (2010). It argues that Communism in America is not only alive and well, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 19, 2012
The Occupy Movement is negative. It has carefully refused to say what it is for. It will lose. Why? Because you can’t beat something with nothing. The Occupy Movement opposes globalism. But which form? NAFTA/WTO globalism? United Nations globalism? Zero-tariff free trade globalism? International gold coin standard globalism? It refuses to say. The Occupy Movement […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 23, 2012
China is the fastest growing large economy in history. One man’s decision did this: Deng Xioping’s decision to free up agriculture in 1978. But how did he know this would work? Because there was a test case — a kind of social laboratory. The farmers in a small village decided to secretly abandon Communism and […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 19, 2011
When a dictator dies, this is for liberty. Liberty is good for free markets. Free markets are good for stocks. Yet stocks fall when a dictator dies. Kim Jong-il has died at age 69. He was the next-to-last Communist. Only the Castro bothers remain. His son is an unknown. Whether he can hold onto power […]
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