February 2017 marked the 50th anniversary of my first published article. The article appeared in The Freeman: “Domestic Inflation versus International Solvency.” Just for the record, according to the inflation calculator of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the consumer price index in the United States has risen by a factor of 7.3 since 1967. I […]

It has been a decade since I wrote my son’s obituary. I posted it the next day. http://www.garynorth.com/public/1967.cfmLew Rockwell posted it the day after I posted it. Writing it eased the pain. Writers often write to ease pain. When you are depressed, work. Work is a productive pain-killing drug. Warning: If you ever get tingling […]

Muhammed Ali has died at age 74. I am 74. He loomed large when I came to adulthood. He was the most famous athlete on earth after he beat Sonny Liston in 1964. He was the greatest fighter of my generation, as he never tired of reminding us. He was also the greatest self-promoter in […]

Foreign central banks are selling off U.S. Treasury debt. http://www.garynorth.com/snip/1223.htm There have been no negative effects for the U.S. government. The dollar remains high, despite the increase in the supply of dollar-denominated debt in world currency markets. Second, long-term T-bond rates have not risen, i.e., the prices of Treasury debt certificates have not fallen. For […]

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: And whatsoever ye do, do if heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the […]

Karl Marx is sometimes referred to as a secular prophet. He made lots of predictions. Most of them were wrong. He died in obscurity. Following the death of his wife, Jenny, in December 1881, Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in ill health for the last 15 months of his life. It eventually brought […]

Have you reached rock bottom? Are you ready to quit the ministry? Do you feel burned out? Burned-out pastors are a dime a dozen. There is a book on this: Pastors at Greater Risk. Maybe you should read it. But knowing you are not alone is not a solution to your problem. Other than quitting […]

Robert Conquest, in 1968, blew the whistle on Stalin and his purges. In his book, The Great Terror, he reported the fact that Stalin killed at least 20 million people, and maybe 30 million. He was not taken seriously by the liberals in academia. But I took him seriously. Conquest began as a Communist. He […]