Category: Aggregated

For a long time I have intended always to carry a small notebook with me when I go to second-hand bookshops to take down a list of the most boring titles ever published. Frequenters of such shops will know what I mean: A History of Banking in Costa Rica 1880 – 1915, Cattle Breeding in Marshland, that kind of thing. Oddly enough, a list of boring titles might in the end be very interesting, in obedience to one of the three purported laws of dialectical materialism: that of the transformation of quantity into quality. Alas, I have never succeeded in … Continue reading →

The robo-traders——both the silicon and carbon based varieties—–were raging again today in celebration of a “goldilocks” jobs report. That is, the headline number for April was purportedly strong enough to sustain the “all is awesome” meme, while the sharp downward revision for March to only 85,000 new jobs will allegedly enable the Fed to kick-the-can yet again—-this time until its September meeting. As one Cool-Aid drinker put it, “Probably best scenario in which the market was hoping for growth but not (so strong) that the Fed needs to hike in June,” said Ryan Larson, head of U.S. equity management at RBC Global Asset Management (U.S.). … Continue reading →

Holidays generally bring sun, sea, sand – and, for many of us, at least a handful of incredibly frustrating insect bites. Up to 20 per cent of us are highly attractive to mosquitoes and consistently get bitten more often than the other lucky 80 per cent. While genetics are thought to count for up to 85 per cent of our susceptibility, scientists have a number of ideas as to why some of us are more prone to being ravaged by mosquitoes… CLOTHING COLOUR Mosquitoes are attracted to dark colours such as black and navy blue, as they use vision along … Continue reading →

Lew Rockwell: This is The Lew Rockwell Show and how great to have as our guest from Bahrain, Yousif Almoayyed. Yousif is a successful young businessman in Bahrain. He’s the director of the National Concrete Company. He is an avid student of Austrian Economics, and of noninterventionism. In fact, he told me that when he was a student in China where he studied electronics and telecommunications for six years—and he, by the way, is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese—that it was seeing the role of the Chinese state and the economy there, that made him into a noninterventionist. When … Continue reading →

As of mid-April, when a Pentagon flack announced it in Kiev, and as barely reported in American media, U.S. troops are now operating openly in Ukraine. Now there is a lead I have long dreaded writing but suspected from the first that one day I would. Do not take a moment to think about this. Take many moments. We all need to. We find ourselves in grave circumstances this spring. At first I thought I had written what newspaper people call a double-barreled lead: American soldiers in Ukraine, American media not saying much about it. Two facts. Wrong. There is … Continue reading →

On December 16, 2014, I published an article for paid members of my GaryNorth.com site: “Saudi Arabia’s Oil Strategy.” I wrote the following about West Texas intermediate crude oil prices: WTI oil hit $37.51 in February 2009. This was in the midst of a major recession. It was back to $80 by late December. I do not see a crash coming next year. The economy worldwide is not strong, but this is not 2008. If WTI gets to $45, it will be a buying opportunity for energy stocks. My guess is that a $75 to $80 price in a year … Continue reading →

‘Israeli authorities have issued eviction orders to Palestinian Bedouins living in a village east of al-Quds (Jerusalem), telling them to leave their homes within weeks. Local residents said they would be forced from their land […]