Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Written by Gary North on November 1, 2012
Small banks will disappear over the next decade — maybe half of them. That is the estimate of several analysts. The big banks are already dominant. They will swallow up smaller banks. The problem is this. Will local employees of a New York bank have enough clout to give loans to local businesses? Centralization of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 15, 2012
We are now three years into the Obama Administration. So far, new regulations have added $46 billion in costs to businesses. This is four times the pace of the regulations under George W. Bush in his first three years. The Federal Register adds over 82,000 pages a year, each with three columns. This takes place […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 15, 2011
The National Federation of Independent Business reports on business sentiment. It is bad. With 1986 as 100, October’s sentiment was 90.2. In January 2009, almost three years ago, it was 89.1. That was in the recession. This recovery is the weakest in post-Word War II history. Sentiment is a little better than in August, but […]
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