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Gary North
Written by Gary North on January 30, 2016
Most people believe that second rate performance is fine, and third-rate performance is acceptable. I do not, and I never have. The more important your cause is to you, the more important you think your cause should be to the world. If you represent your cause in a second rate way, you are doing your […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 30, 2016
In every person’s life there are key turning points. I believe this is also true of nations and civilizations. These turning points have meaning only in reference to long, uneventful periods of conventional day-to-day activities. That is the whole meaning of a turning point. It turns us into a new path after years of stability. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on January 2, 2016
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do (Luke 17:10). The words of Jesus are not palatable to the self-proclaimed autonomous man. Jesus, to use the vernacular, never gave man a lot of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 14, 2015
One of the phrases we hear today is this: “People have no pride in their work anymore.” There is a sense of loss in our era. The erosion of standards of craftsmanship represents an even greater moral erosion in our society. Unquestionably, the free market system has produced remarkable examples of productivity. There is no […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 3, 2015
Remnant Review I received this as a private email yesterday. I have been a long time subscriber and look forward to reading your articles daily but I can’t help but to feel sorry for you. You work too much. You are no longer a young man, you are old. You are heading toward the final […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 24, 2015
I have just seen a great documentary. It is being shown around the United States in art theaters. It has been simultaneously released on Amazon. I had to pay $6.99 to watch it on Amazon, and it was the best $6.99 I have spent in a long time. The documentary is titled, The Wrecking Crew. […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on March 19, 2015
Almost 50 years ago, I was in high school with Joe Moeller. He is not a household name, but he might have been, had he gotten better guidance from adults. I want to talk about this. He was the youngest pitcher ever brought up from the minors by the Dodgers. He was signed in 1960, […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 2, 2014
For most people throughout history, marriage has been the primary means of attaining increased production. The reason is simple: the division of labor. It enables people to specialize. Specialization increases output per unit of resource input. That is how economists describe economic production. I was able to achieve considerable output as a graduate student. I […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 31, 2014
State by state, county by county, city by city: they will default. The money is not there. The promises were huge. New Jersey’s governor Christie is touring the state, telling the voters that the state will break promises to retired government workers. He is doing what other government officials refuse to do: tell the truth […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 9, 2014
My friend Murray Rothbard was a great economist. He did not do it for money. He did his greatest work when he was a teacher at a school that did not pay him well, and which offered no economics major: Brooklyn Polytechnic. It put food on his table. He created a movement in his spare […]
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