TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Thursday, December 20, 2012

SWAT Teams on the Streets in Arkansas. They Demand IDs for Doing Nothing You may have read about the police chief in Arkansas who has SWAT teams patrolling the streets. He admits that it’s like martial law. His excuse? Crime is up. He says residents can be stopped and questioned for walking their dogs. He has received national publicity. He does not care. He answers to locally elected... READ MORE A Nation Run by Idiots This is all over the Web: You know you live in a Country run by idiots if… You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally. Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of... READ MORE Don’t End the Charitable Deduction! This article was written by one of my GaryNorth.com subscribers. It nails the issue, and it nails the Cato Institute’s Dr. Mitchell, who systematically ignores the obvious. In the past 15 years, I have made a lot of charitable contributions, with the total recently crossing the line to eight figures. When I retired six years... READ MORE Let’s See the Principal Do Yoga The local tax-funded school system in Encinitas, California, requires elementary school students to take yoga classes. Christian parents are protesting. This is Eastern religion. It can be, but this looks like a stripped-down version. There are lots of reasons to pull your kids out of the tax-funded schools. Yoga exercises are not high on the... READ MORE Gun Sales are Booming. This Is Just The Beginning Gun sales are surging. This was an easy prediction. There is no way that this will stop. The buyers see gun controls on the horizon. They are not buying assault rifles. They are buying handguns, hunting rifles, and shotguns. After every mass shooting, politicians call for gun control. The media highlight this. The gun control... READ MORE Headhunter Reveals 3 Ways to Get a Job if You Are Unemployed You may not be unemployed . . . yet. But someone you know may be. It’s a discouraging feeling. I’ve been there. In the first half of 1976, I was out of work, except for my meager newsletter income. Then Ron Paul hired me. I got that job because Larry Abraham (the co-author of the... READ MORE A Negative Stock Market Indicator Appears Without Warning Corporate insiders are selling their companies’ shares at a furious rate: almost 7 to one over purchases. Insiders have better information than the rest of us do regarding the future performance of their companies. This performance will presumably influence share prices. When insiders start selling, they think trouble is ahead. Better safe than sorry, they... READ MORE Key Sign That a U.S. Recession Has Begun When Americans buy less from abroad for two consecutive months, something is up. What may not be up is the economy. This has happened for the last two months for which data are available. The U.S. balance of payments is rising, as always, but at a lower rate. The demand for foreign goods is slowing. ... READ MORE