Gary North's Miscellany continued

Why should you be required to show an official ID (presumably state-issued) while riding a bus. No law says you must. Yet this woman was arrested for refusing to show her ID on a Denver bus. The clamps are tightening.... keep reading

President Bush's failure to get his Social Security proposal passed has killed it, probably forever. Now the grim statistical reality is creeping up on the under-55 set. The government will take care of low-income workers first. The big losers: workers who made high salaries, were taxed highest, and who will get stiffed.... keep reading

A bachelor's degree in the humanities or social sciences? Not if you want a good job with fringe benefits. As for those who start a business, here is where you want to be. Say the secret word.... keep reading

As gold has moved up since 1999, it has peaked and fallen back. Each peak has been higher. Each bottom has been higher. Gold looks as though it is close to another peak in the sequence.... keep reading

Boston's boom in real estate has the marks of a bubble. A recession will pop this bubble. New evidence indicates that a slowdown could become a contraction. The slowdown is here.... keep reading

You had better take this speech seriously. The Federal Reserve will have to step in and buy T-bills if the Chinese central bank bows out. The FED had better not ignore this speech. Neither should you.... keep reading

There are other cities, smaller, that might be even better.... keep reading

This is for real. Here is a group that advocates the self-destruction of the human race by non-replacement: no more births. This is the outcome of "man is a cancer," the "deep" ecology movement's favorite phrase.... keep reading

Property rights and religious liberty vs. politics and zoning. It is nice to see someone in authority (a rabbi) defying others in authority (politicians).... keep reading

These materials will save you a lot of grief if you are in business.... keep reading

I don't think this document will be on the original site for long. You had better download it and save it to your hard disk. This one is a blockbuster. It's posted on a site I would never believe would allow it. I don't think the senior managers know. When they find out, it will be "pulled," so to speak.... keep reading

This is the most forthright warning on the fiscal consequences of the Social Security/Medicare welfare programs that any high-level U.S. government official has issued. This year is the 70th anniversary of the Social Security Act.... keep reading

This cartoon justifies the suicide bombing of Israeli troops. It is clear that there has been an escalation of official anti-Israel propaganda under Iran's new ruler.... keep reading

The Passion of the Christ was released on Ash Wednesday in 2004. Within six weeks, it was the #7 film in gross receipts in American history: over $370 million. The Left had fought this movie from the day that word leaked out that he would produce it. Here's why.... keep reading

"Bad news sells." So the news media experts have always said. "If it bleeds, it leads." Here is an exception: a website devoted exclusively to good news. Here is a true business success story. The site has come out of nowhere. It will make a bundle.... keep reading

I have used this statistic to forecast every U.S. recession since 1980. It has never been wrong. Here is a reprint of the December 3, 2001 issue of my newsletter, Gary North's Reality Check, in which I described how I called the 2001 recession a year earler.... keep reading