TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Friday, January 25, 2013

Gun Owners Boycott a Huge Outdoors Show. Show Shuts Down. The good guys have won a big one. The annual Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show normally attracts 200,000 visitors. It earns money from 1,000 exhibitors. Last week the British firm that owns it decided to ban all visible references to assault weapons, so called. No sales, no advertising, nothing. A boycott began. The NRA canceled. ... READ MORE Free Rent: $2.5 Million Home. The Games Banks Play So, you want to move up. Well, then: move in. A 23-year-old squatter broke into a $2.5 million empty house. He thereby established rights to it: squatter’s rights. He can be evicted, but only by legal action. The Bank of America knows this. It does nothing. All over the USA, squatters have done this for... READ MORE Why Is Apple’s Stock in Free Fall? Simple: RTTM. The chart tells all. From over $700 to $450: this is a disaster. Simple: regression to the mean (RTTM). The poor saps on Wall Street never saw it coming. The funds loaded up. Here was a sure thing. It could not lose. Here is a recent article on what happened: How Apple Ate Wall Street. ... READ MORE Rand Paul Sticks It Good and Hard to Hillary He said the obvious: no one got fired for the disaster at Benghazi. “I take responsibility,” she said immediately after the disaster that she had overseen. That meant: “I get a free pass.” Ran Paul took away the free pass. He compared Benghazi with 9-11. No one got fired after 9-11, either. There is no... READ MORE What If Goldman Sachs Went Bust? Gary North’s Reality Check (Jan. 24, 2013) The governor of the bank of England is Mervyn King. He is about to be replaced by the man who is presently the governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney. This replacement is unprecedented. A man who is not a British citizen is being brought in to... READ MORE When Women Drive Tanks, Will They Be Afraid of Guns? The outgoing Secretary of Defense has authorized women to serve in the front lines. From now on, women will be allowed to serve in tank crews. They will be in foxholes with the guys. They will even be in elite commando units if they qualify. Question: When they come back home, will they be afraid... READ MORE Joe the Plumber on a Pro-Gun Boycott Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher is not a household name. But his alter ego, Joe the Plumber, still is, over four years after he gained his 15 minutes of fame . . . and then some. Search Google for “Joe the Plumber,” and you’ll get over 1.4 million hits. All because of that one brief encounter with... READ MORE A New Site for the Woman Who Owns a Gun (and Plans to Buy Another One) There is a new website that targets what I hope is a large and growing audience: women who own guns. These are women who inwardly cheered when Sandra Bullock warned hooligans in The Blind Side that she was packing. The hooligans wisely left her alone. The site is here: http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com In a time of increasing... READ MORE Gun-Related Offers? Not on Groupon. “Gun Deals Rnt Us!” That is Groupons new motto. Want to sell a course on firearms safety? Skip Groupon. Groupon is “No guns, M’Lady.” Why would anyone selling gun-related offers care? You don’t have to offer a discount these days. If anything, you can hike prices. We are seeing the biggest gun rush in my... READ MORE Hyperinflation in the Afterworld There are a lot of Jewish comedians who broke into the comedy business as stand-up comics. There are a lot of Jewish economists who broke into the field of economics as sit-down drudges. Yoram Bauman is the only Jewish economist who broke into the field of economics as a stand-up comic. Here, you see why. ... READ MORE