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Gary North
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Gary North's personal blog at garynorth.com covers economics and politics. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Gary North's site for Austrian-school economics and monetary writing, including critiques of fractional-reserve banking, M3 data, and a quote on government as a living organism. One commenter recommends his Christian Economics in One Lesson.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Gary North on current economic affairs and investment markets
What Hacker News says?
Murray Rothbard is probably the most influential example. He argued that fractional-reserve banking is fraud and should be effectively outlawed by regular tort law (not by government regulation). He had a bit of a running disagreement with Von Mises over it: http://www.garynorth.com/public/9714.cfm
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on “Peter R’s Theory on the Collapse of Mt. Gox”Submitted Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History as a story · 267 points
HN discussionThe full context of the Wilson Newton/Darwin quote, from an obscure lecture (Worldcat has no record), is this: The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the…
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on “A Few Rules”Submitted A Revolution in Communications Began in Late 2013; Almost No One Knows About It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee this https://mises.org/library/death-m3-fifth-anniversary And https://www.garynorth.com/public/6538.cfm TLDR: The end of the first link provides a response from Bernanke which says that the public would still have access to the data but the fed won’t aggregate it and report it. What the OECD does is the aggregation and reporting based on the raw fed data. The second link provides why the M3 was useless to begin…
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on “Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed”Submitted What You Were at 16 May Still Be Holding You Back as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in "Christian Economics in One Lesson", a modernization of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson" by (in my opinion) the greatest living economist of our age, Dr. Gary North. http://www.garynorth.com/public/department181.cfm
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on “Economics Has a Math Problem”Submitted The Population Implosion Will Begin in 2065 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Will Pay the Taxes for Universal Income from the Federal Government? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Hung Up on a New York Times Reporter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sir John Templeton's 2003 Prediction: U.S. Housing Prices Will Fall by 90%(2003) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Author Abandons WordPerfect After 30 Years (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inventions That Changed Our Lives Only Because of Liberty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Facebook bring down the government? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoins: The Second Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History as a story · 1 points
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