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Written by Robert Murphy on October 3, 2013
The news is rife with stories of the awful shortages of basic essentials in Venezuela. For example, the BBC World Service did an extended report, and the following comes from a Guardian article: It’s the rainy season in Venezuela and Pedro Rodríguez has had to battle upturned manhole lids, flooded avenues and infernal traffic jams […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 2, 2013
You don’t care. I don’t care. But how often in life does a headline writer get to write a headline like this? The company is the second opera company in New York City. It opened in 1944. Mayor Bloomberg refused to use tax money to bail it out. Its final opera was “Anna Nicole,” an […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 21, 2013
Several times a year, economist Thomas Sowell gathers together his 3×5 cards and posts a series of one-liners. I am aware of no other columnist who does this. I can tell you for sure that no other economist has ever done this. Will Rogers used to do it. Sowell is in distinguished company. His statement […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 14, 2013
We were told by Keynesian economists that the sequestration voted by Congress and signed by the President in 2011 would cause great hardship on Americans. Well, so far, it hasn’t. The Department of Commerce reports on retail sales. They are up. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 13, 2013
Erwin Schrödinger’s cat first appeared in 1935. It may still be alive. It’s hard to say. That kitty revealed a world where cause and effect do not work the way we expect. This may blow your mind a little. Yesterday, Google’s cartoon celebrated Dr. S’s birth in 1877. I wrote about the cat in my […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 12, 2013
A Rasmussen poll reveals that 46% of Americans want no new gun control laws, while 46% do want them. With the division right down the middle, gun control advocates will find it difficult to get Congress to take action. Congress knows that the Second Amendment forces are far better organized politically than the gun control […]
Continue reading →Posted on August 5, 2013
U.S. officials are warning that a global terror threat from al Qaeda is ‘very specific’ and could last through August, as at least 22 embassies and consulates across the world prepared to shut down Sunday in fear of a possible attack. ‘We’re not certain exactly where something might happen but it’s very specific as to […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on July 25, 2013
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Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 11, 2013
I use Nuance’s Naturally Speaking for some tasks. It is voice-activated dictation software. It is reasonably accurate, although I must proofread the results like a hawk. Actually, I have a proofreader do this for me. Even so, mistakes get through. My subscribers then let me know about them. The program has a major problem. If […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 5, 2013
The London Financial Times ran a story on the decline in rural population. It promoted the story as if it were relevant. It isn’t. There was an increase of 134,000 people in rural areas last year. But 179,000 moved out. We are talking fewer than 50,000 people in a nation of 310,000,000. In short, marginal. […]
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