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When Central Banks Buy Stocks, They Can Buy Up a Nation's Ownership With Counterfeit Money.
Gary North

A central bank serves as a nation's official counterfeiter. When they can monetize equity as well as debt (government bonds), they can buy up the productive assets of a nation with depreciating money. This has now begun.... keep reading

Why We Love "It's a Wonderful Life"
Gary North

"What difference will I make?" That's the crucial question in "It's a Wonderful Life." It is the story of a man with thwarted goals that deserved to be thwarted. He did better by failing to achieve them. But it's best to have the right goals and then achieve them.... keep reading

Junior High School, Dead-End Careers, and Making Garbage Pay, Big-Time
Gary North

"Life is like a sewer: What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." -- Tom Lehrer. J. C. Agajanian got rich with garbage. Better to start a business and risk losing it all than to be a junior high school teacher in a public school. Here's why.... keep reading

Greenspan Giveth (2002), and Greenspan Taketh Away (2005): Inflation, Then Monetary Slowdown
Gary North

The FED understands compound growth, in both the economy and money. To goose the economy, the FED inflates (2001-2004). To keep monetary inflation from becoming runaway price inflation, the FED puts on the monetary brakes (2005). A recession hits. Compound growth reverses.... keep reading

My Speech on Success in Business and Career to a High School FBLA Chapter
Gary North

The FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) is a national organization. In this presentation, I laid out the step-by-step program that gave me my success.... keep reading

The Illegal (U.S.) "Underground" Electronic Therapy That Cured James Coburn of His Crippling Arthritis: My Interview With Him
Gary North

This "Black Box" alternative therapy also cured my wife of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in 3 days in 1988, after she had become a near-vegetable. Then the U.S. government closed down the clinic. It now operates in an "underground" location. Here is the story.... keep reading

How Successful Companies Beat the Competition During a Recession
Gary North

Recessions provide opportunity for companies with cash reserves to expand. The same is true for individuals. Fear paralyzes the competition. So does the absence of cash reserves. Here is how you beat the competition.... keep reading

Alan Greenspan as Mordecai Jones: The Flim-Flam Man
Gary North

In "The Flim-Flam Man," Mordecai Jones, small-time con man, teaches, "You can't cheat an honest man." The success of central bankers in cheating the world out of stable money indicates that there is larceny in debtors' hearts. Most men think of themselves as debtors.... keep reading

The Federal Reserve System's War on Savers: 2001-2004
Gary North

By inflating the dollar in 2001 to force the Federal Funds interest rate to 1.25% from 6%, the FED launched a war on savers. This policy fueled housing market inflation. This is a war on stable money. The FED began this war in 1913.... keep reading

Your Priorities Are Revealed by Your Bank Check Stubs
Gary North

GE's Jack Welch offered $45 to his existing wife to let him get a new one. She refused. She wanted more. There are a lot of great things a man can do with $45 million. He should keep his wife and do them.... keep reading

The Lesson I Learned from Gene Autry: Seize the Moment, Abandon the Near-Obsolete, and Take Risks
Gary North

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." It's true. Here are the guidelines I have used to help me in my long-term planning.... keep reading

Trusts by Lawyers or Trust in Lawyers. I'll Take Option #1.
Gary North

A last will & testament will put your estate in probate. A revocable trust will keep it out of probate. You can have a lawyer draw up a revocable trust. The point is, once it's in force, you can send him away.... keep reading

Fallout from the Enron Bankruptcy: Revamping Accounting Standards. Again.
Gary North

The government uses public opinion to ram through more regulations, which then create a new, imprived disaster. Enron created just such an opportunity.... keep reading

The Simplest, Cheapest Ways to Use the Web to Break Through the Glass Ceiling
Gary North

Makje the Internet work for you, step by step. Get started now. Do it dirt-cheap. Learn the basics. Then expand. The longer you wait, the longer your career will be stalled. Use the Internet to break the glass ceiling.... keep reading

The E-Mail Revolution: Bad for the Postal Service, Good for Entrepreneurship
Gary North

The technological revolution is in full force. My manual and department on autoresponders goes into this in detail. It is changing the way we communicate. You had better get on board if you are in business or plan to go into business.... keep reading

October, 2002: A Nation in Political Gridlock
Gary North

Before the 2002 mid-term elections, the Democrats were close to parity in the Senate. That changed in 2003. Then came the Iraq war. Gridlock was broken. The country now is in a quagmire, and Federal deficits are astronomical. The voters got what they wanted, good and hard.... keep reading

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