Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Posted on May 5, 2014
Speaking publicly for the first time since the release of a racist audio recording led to his lifetime ban from the NBA., Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling said he wishes he had “paid off” the female acquaintance who taped their conversation, according to media reports. “I wish I had just paid her off,” Sterling […]
Continue reading →Posted on May 3, 2014
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is set to announce the formation of a select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attacks. Boehner had been cool to the idea of forming a committee to probe the attacks that left four Americans dead, but sources close to the speaker say a new email released this week showing […]
Continue reading →Posted on May 3, 2014
Funky job reports are not unusual, and the employment data for April certainly fits the bill. How else to explain the biggest gain in hiring in more than two years – at the same time the labor force shrank by the second largest amount in 32 years. Let’s review. The U.S. added 288,000 jobs in […]
Continue reading →Written by John Odermatt on May 2, 2014
Another controversial law was signed by Governor Jan Brewer this week in Arizona. The new legislation means Arizona will be the first state to make posting “revenge porn” online a felony offense. The Arizona Legislature unanimously passed the bill one week ago and the governor signed it into law last Wednesday. “Revenge porn”, also referred […]
Continue reading →Posted on May 1, 2014
Tal Fortgang, a freshman at Princeton University, says he has been ordered to “check your privilege” by his “moral superiors” several times this year because he happens to be a white male. In a column in the Princeton Tory, Fortgang takes on the ideology he says ”assumes that simply because I belong to a certain […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 29, 2014
So you want to get into the real estate investment game without having to pick up a plunger to unstop a toilet when your tenant calls in the middle of the night. Your best bet might be a real estate investment trust, or REIT. Like bonds, the key to REITs is the non-correlation of the […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 28, 2014
Bitcoin is the hottest investing trend since the Internet, according to venture capitalists who have sung its praises. But the money hasn’t exactly followed. Venture capitalists invested $74.1 million in bitcoin startups across 39 deals in 2013, according to data provided by CB Insights. That’s less than a third of what Internet companies raised in […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 28, 2014
A gun battle between six high school seniors got the attention of police plenty fast. It all stared when neighbors reported someone pointing a gun at a car one night earlier in the week. “They did scare a number of people in the area,” Capt. Ben Bliven of the Wausau Police Department told WAOW-TV in […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 28, 2014
Who can possibly know why Tina Gleim made such a dangerously bold move? Whatever lit the fire under her, the volunteer treasurer for a nonprofit group — who has stage-four colon cancer — knows one thing for sure: Had she been sporting a vehicle fancier than her pickup truck with 190,000 miles on it, she […]
Continue reading →Posted on April 26, 2014
The housing sector may or may not get better after a slow start to 2014. But regardless, it certainly won’t save the broader economy — at least not according to two professors who run a popular economics blog. On House of Debt, Princeton’s Atif Mian and University of Chicago Booth School of Business’s Amir Sufi […]
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