TEA PARTY ECONOMIST

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Saturday, March 23, 2013

WEEK IN REVIEW: The top stories of the week Gold and Silver Coins in Arizona May Become Legal Tender Arizona is likely to become the second state afterUtah to pass a law specifying that gold and silver coins will be regarded as legal tender inside the borders of the state. Other states have similar legislation pending, but Arizona is the most likely state to see this legislation become law. I don't think this is ... READ MORE A Phony Gold Standard for Economically Clueless Conservatives Nathan Lewis is a contributor to Forbes. A contributor is a non-salaried writer. Contributors fill up the Forbes site to generate ad revenues. The policy favors quantity over quality. Lewis attacks Austrian School economists as kooks. Why? Because they do not trust the federal government to set up a gold standard that does not rely ... READ MORE Kilowatt Money: Zombie Economics for Naive Conservatives Gary North's Reality Check The conservative movement has always been filled with monetary cranks. This has been true for well over a century. These cranks have never read a book on economics. They have never taken a class in economics. They have zero practical experience in finance. They come before the conservative public and present ... READ MORE Sticking It to the Eurocrats: Cypriot Parliament May Vote No The Eurocrats did not expect this. They got the newly elected president of Cyprus to crawl on his belly. The poor dolt had promised the nation in his February 28 inaugural address that he would not consent to a bank tax. "Crawl, you powerless nonentity," the unelected, unofficial EuroGroup members told him. He did. Now ... READ MORE Believe a Politician and You Will Lose Your Money The president of Cyprus assured voters that he would never, ever tax their bank accounts. Now he says the government must do this. Any voter who heard this assurance should have gone to his bank immediately and withdrawn half of his money. Then he should have sent another 40% to a German bank. The other ... READ MORE