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Gary North
Written by Gary North on October 22, 2016
Dear High School Senior: If you do not leave home after high school, you can save a lot of money. So can your parents. Parents worry about boomerang kids. The parents send them off to college for $100,000 (after-tax money), and then the kids come back home to live after graduation. They can’t find jobs. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 31, 2015
In the Ron Paul Curriculum, there is a course on personal finance. It is taught by Dr. Timothy Terrell, who teaches economics at Wofford College. In a course that I teach on studying, which I call the Academic Bootcamp Course (ABC), I teach techniques that speed up the students’ ability to master material. I constantly […]
Continue reading →Posted on September 19, 2015
This kid got the memo. The NFL season started last week, and there’s a player who has been in the news since the preseason because of his relationship to money. This isn’t another tale of a player who made millions and lost it all. It’s about a player who has only been in the league […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 7, 2015
Buying a 4k TV is like buying a sound system that offers a range of 20Hz to 20KHz. By the time you can afford it, you can’t hear above 12 KHz. Rule: never pay more for a sound system if you can’t hear the difference. Rule: never pay more for a TV high definition screen […]
Continue reading →Posted on January 3, 2015
When Bob Sportel spent $75 on a Chevrolet pickup, he had no idea it would still be trucking along just fine 38 years later. Sportel drove the 58-year-old truck to his job at Prinsburg Farmers Co-op in Prinsburg, Minnesota, for nearly four decades before he finally retired this week. He bought it from a farmer […]
Continue reading →Posted on December 24, 2014
The city of Lebanon, Pennsylvania just passed a budget that contains a 28 percent tax increase. . . Lancaster’s pension obligations have increased by 228 percent since 2006. That year, city pension obligations amounted to $1.9 million, covered almost entirely by the state. For 2015, the obligations will be $6.4 million — nearly $4 million […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 23, 2014
Pro football player Michael Vick could have fled for Chapter 7 and escaped this burden when he was in prison. Instead, he filed for Chapter 11 — reorganization. He has just about paid it off. He became a Christian in prison. He worked with former Colts Coach Tony Dungy to get back on track. He […]
Continue reading →Posted on December 22, 2014
Ferguson, Missouri, which is recovering from riots following the August shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman, plans to close a budget gap by boosting revenue from public-safety fines and tapping reserves. The strategy by the St. Louis suburb, which suffered a second round of violent protests last month after a […]
Continue reading →Posted on March 18, 2014
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the State Department is spending U.S. tax dollars on some interesting titles to stock the library of the American Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The library, which specializes in “U.S foreign Policy, U.S. social and cultural issues, Art, Management, U.S. history, geography, the Economy, Human Rights, Press and […]
Continue reading →Posted on March 8, 2014
Retirees seeking the retirement trifecta — golf, the beach and warm weather — often flock to pricey places like Hilton Head, Palm Beach or Santa Barbara. But sugar-sand beaches, sunshine and some of the best golf in the nation can be had at a much lower price in Alabama. The northern part of the state […]
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