“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
~ Andrew Jackson
“No one wants advice. Only corroboration.”
~John Steinbeck, Winter of Our Discontent
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws are to be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
~ James Madison, Federalist 62
“Laissez-nous faire, laisse-nous passer.” Merchants responding to Louis XV’s question of how he could help them: “Let us do, leave us alone.”
“No man hath power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man’s.”
~ Richard Overton
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government of the U.S. ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes.”
~ Thomas Paine
“The end of Law is not to abolish or retrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom.”
~ John Locke
“In his professional activity it is no business of [the reporter’s] to care whose ox is gored.”
~ Walter Lippmann
“Marullo did not reward for things past; he bribed for things to come.”
~ John Steinbeck Winter of Our Discontent
“Those who control the credit of a nation, direct the policy of governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.”
~ Reginald McKenna
“Civilization means that officials and authorities, whether uninformed or not, whether armed or not, are made to realize that they are servants and not masters.”
~ Winston Churchill
“The society that puts equality before freedom will get little of either. The society that puts freedom before equality will get a great measure of both.”
~ Milton Friedman
“As my intention is to write something useful for discerning minds, I find it more fitting to seek the truth of the matter rather than imaginary conceptions.”
~ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“The further a society strays from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
~ George Orwell
“The good thing about Pittsburgh, it’s a good place to be raised . . . it doesn’t tolerate a**holes. You’re either a good guy or a bad guy.”
~ Dennis Miller
“Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?”
~ Jesus in Parable of the Rich Fool
“The middle class, the people not rich enough to be worry-free, but not poor enough to be on welfare; the middle class—those people who work for a living because they have to, not because some psychiatrist told them it was a convenient way to fill the interval between birth and eternity.”
~ Mario Cuomo
“The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.”
~ Edmund Burke
“For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."
~ Thomas Jefferson
“My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
~ George Orwell
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
“Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound, and the smell of common folk.”
~ Eric Hoffer
“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.”
~ John Ruskin
“You have to join the side you’re on.”
~ Midge Decter
“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
~ Malcolm X
“Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success—only then can societies remain alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive, and free.”
~ Ronald Reagan
“The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing, and prospering in the world.”
~ President Calvin Coolidge
“But on all sides I hear: ‘Do not argue!’ The officer says, ‘Do not argue, drill!’ The tax man says, ‘Do not argue, pay!’ The pastor says, ‘Do not argue, believe!’.”
~ Immanuel Kant
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.”
~ George Will
“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”
~ Wendell Philips
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
~ Thomas Paine
“We have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“There is nowhere to be found knaves more designing than at a legislature, where designing scoundrels lurk and with specious words and demure looks they calculate to entrap the unwary and like blood-suckers leech and suck the public.”
~ Ephraim Cutler
“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.”
~ John Locke
“When you create a government bureaucracy, no matter how well intentioned it is, almost instantly its top priority becomes preservation of the bureaucracy.”
~ Ronald Reagan
“A power over a man’s sustenance amounts to a power over his will.”
~ Alexander Hamilton
“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”
~ Leon Trotsky
“Do everything you ask of those you command.”
~ General George Patton
“It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceeded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.”
~ E. H. Carr
“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the mind of the masses.”
~ Malcolm X
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
~ Mark Twain
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
~ Norm Chomsky
“Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance.”
~ Steven Pinker
“I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the first two thousand faculty members of Harvard.”
~ William F. Buckley
“Suicide is probably more frequent than murder as the end phase of a civilization.”
~ James Burnham
“Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science.”
~ Vannevar Bush
“Money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers.”
~ Milton Friedman
“Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.”
~ Ayn Rand
“Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.”
~ Elaine Chao
“We ought to be wary of shrill cries from a crowd of self-appointed, self-righteous authorities even when all they’re crying for is a label.”
~ Hester Pierce
“I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths.”
~ George Carlin
“…a time to be silent and a time to speak…”
~ Ecclesiastes
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again.”
~ Mark Twain

About

Nick Deiuliis is a chemical engineer, attorney, and business executive. During a career spanning 30 years, he served as the CEO or Chairman of the Board of five public energy companies. During that time, Nick has been on the front lines of the war being waged by elites against the working men and women of Appalachia, the “doers” of the American economy, and the free-thinking individual.

Nick is a thought-provoking voice in the energy and manufacturing industries, advocating for technology, labor, environmental, and capital markets policy issues. He is a regular media contributor and speaks extensively on the virtues of the carbon economy, the nobility of the worker and middle class, and the vital importance of individual rights. Nick is a proud capitalist, free enterprise advocate, and lifelong Pittsburgher.

Our Mission

Our mission is to defend the ‘doers’ of society who create, enable, and serve free enterprise and to rebut those who seek to appropriate the value of others via excessive regulation, academic dishonesty, subsidy seeking, or political machination.
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Commentary

September 16, 2023

A Dose Of Dissidence And A Pinch Of Living In Truth: Remedy For Troubling Times

Today the West struggles under the Left’s tightening grip on the economy, education, individual rights, and nearly all facets of ...

September 12, 2023

Falling, Failing, and Finding Success: Mentoring Young Adults in 2023

CNX Resources is getting ready to proudly mark its 160th year in Appalachia. Our legacy is built on generations of ...

August 1, 2023

Venice: A City Connected by Canals…and Carbon

Venice is perhaps the world’s most famous island city, cut off from the mainland. Visitors arriving by plane do not ...

July 11, 2023

The Logic and Morality of Share Buybacks

The following commentary is by Nick Deiuliis and Yemi Akinkugbe. In 1982, the SEC, under President Reagan, reinstated share repurchases ...

June 5, 2023

LA County Lincoln Club • June 2023 Address

The following is a summary of Nick's June 2, 2023, address to the Los Angeles County Lincoln Club - Downtown ...

April 20, 2023

Current and Future Life Journeys Hanging on a Suit Rack

The following commentary by Nick Deiuliis highlights the unique partnership between for CNX Resources and Dress for Success, which includes ...

April 10, 2023

Legacies and Adages for Domestic Energy’s Future: Texas A&M Visit

Ask a business leader what their most important asset is, and the answer will typically be: our employees. That answer ...

April 3, 2023

VFW Post 4793. Waynesburg, PA. Appalachia. America

The Vietnam War claimed over 50,000 American lives. American wounded numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Today’s Vietnam vets are ...

March 6, 2023

Talking Energy, Region, and Careers at the Rock: Another Best Day Ever

The summary below follows Nick Deiuliis' March 2, 2023, presentation to Slippery Rock University students and faculty. Life in the ...

February 8, 2023

Crunching the Numbers: Energy Source Externality Accounting

Nick’s discussion and commentary below follows an inquiry from an academic team conducting research on externality costs. The inquiry asked ...

January 29, 2023

The West and China: A Rabbit That Has Been Hypnotized by a Snake

Twain famously observed how history doesn’t repeat, but that it tends to rhyme. America and the West learned a hard ...

January 5, 2023

America Needs a Third Party

I’m a big believer in America; where it came from, what it stands for, and its future potential. The United ...

December 16, 2022

Mis“LEED”ing: Fact Versus Fiction for Green Buildings

How many times have we heard those worn-out taglines of ‘sustainability,’ ‘green is good,’ ‘triple bottom line,’ and ‘doing well ...

October 27, 2022

Nick Deiuliis’ CNX Q3 2022 Earnings Call Remarks

The following is a summary of Nick Deiuliis’ introductory comments from CNX Resources’ Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call, held ...

September 15, 2022

The Definitive Battle of the Civil War

The Civil War holds a unique space in the American experience. We’ve been taught it in high school, entertained with ...

September 7, 2022

The Ten Greatest NFL Defenses in the Super Bowl Era

I am a sucker for lists and rankings, despite many of them not being worth much. The more insightful top-whatever ...

August 24, 2022

When a Blinded 1930s Writer Saw the 2022 Future

Aldous Huxley, the English author, was blinded for nearly two years by infection when he was a teenager. Despite his ...

August 8, 2022

Heed the Historical Rhyming of Ludwig von Mises’ Omnipotent Government

Ludwig von Mises was a shining light in the Austrian school of economics and for libertarianism. Despite the obsession Keynesians ...

July 28, 2022

Nick Deiuliis’ CNX Q2 2022 Earnings Call Remarks

The following is a summary of Nick Deiuliis’ introductory comments from CNX Resources’ Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call, held ...

July 15, 2022

Tribute to the Church Fair

The dog days of summer: when July arrives, lawns turn brown, and shade is at a premium. When driving around ...

June 3, 2022

Eight Teachings for Business Leaders from the Battle of Midway

This June marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway—a battle that proved the turning point in the Pacific ...

May 19, 2022

Commentary on the Domestic Appalachian Energy Industry

Nick Deiuliis Excerpt from First Quarter 2022 CNX Resources Earnings Call The following is an abridged excerpt of CNX Resources’ ...

May 5, 2022

Unsustainable: American K-12 Public Education

The quality of an American public education has been steadily eroding for years. Today, many school districts are graduating children ...

April 14, 2022

Liberal vs. Leftist: Trendy Labels Obfuscate, But True Meanings Matter

Question: Liberal or Leftist, What’s the Difference? Answer: Everything. A very bad habit has developed across society the past few ...

March 31, 2022

Reject the Fed’s Mission Creep

Government, elites, and the Left never let a good crisis go to waste. Often, they will inflate, manipulate, or manufacture ...

March 7, 2022

Medical Malpractice Claims the Hippocratic Oath: Part Two

While the medical journal community lectures on climate change, a complex subject it has no expertise in, it ignores crises ...

March 3, 2022

Medical Malpractice Claims the Hippocratic Oath: Part One

The most famous section of the Hippocratic Oath, that classic Greek ethical template for the medical profession, pledges to “do ...

February 24, 2022

Understanding Today’s Left Through Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty

Today, the Left runs rampant through the corridors of government, academia, and treasured institutions. It tramples over the individual and ...

February 21, 2022

Plagues and Pandemics – Then and Now

The great Mark Twain quipped that history never repeats itself, but it rhymes. Sometimes the rhyming can span thousands of years. Such is the case ...

December 16, 2021

The Ten Greatest Guitarists in Rock History

I love rock music, and I love the guitar. But I can’t stand the rock press, particularly the politically debauched ...

December 10, 2021

Hearing Greatness: Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid

Readers of this title fall instantly into one of two categories: those who immediately know the subject matter or those ...

November 11, 2021

Ode to Los Angeles From a Wary Admirer

I recently visited one of America’s iconic cities and one of my personal favorites: Los Angeles. Modern day LA simultaneously ...

November 1, 2021

How $9.80 Created a Literary Balm for Troubled Times: Revisiting Fahrenheit 451

Today, looking around our great yet troubled country, one can’t help but feel the suppressing force of cancel culture. Watch ...

October 29, 2021

Nick Discusses Global and U.S. Energy Demand with CNBC

Nick joined CNBC on Friday, Oct. 29, to discuss global energy demand and resulting price increases. “It’s supply and demand ...

October 29, 2021

IPCC: The Religion and the Racket of Climate Change

Let’s perform a quick exercise. Consider the following quotes: “code red for humanity” “dangerously close to spiraling out of control” ...

October 7, 2021

Malta: World War II’s Most Intriguing “What If?”

The Irresistibility of World War II “What Ifs?” History buffs love to contemplate alternative scenarios. World War II is a ...

September 13, 2021

Hilton Head Island Reflections and Observations

Our family recently wrapped-up that American summertime ritual of the week-long gathering at a coastal sandbar by the ocean. For ...

April 29, 2021

The Unsung Icon of Western Pennsylvania Football Royalty

Western Pennsylvania is steeped in football tradition. The cradle of quarterback legends Joe Namath, George Blanda, John Unitas, Joe Montana, ...

April 20, 2021

What Does the Presidential Medal of Freedom Truly Value?

With a new administration in Washington, much is changing. One thing that will not change is the forthcoming numerous photos ...

April 14, 2021

Who’s Big Tech’s Daddy? Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and Carnegie

Over the past 150 years, starting with post-Civil War Reconstruction, America has delivered to the world the largest improvement in ...

April 9, 2021

Major College Athletics: Financial and Moral Failings

Major college sports enjoy an image of enlightened morality coupled with financial prowess. Tune in to any major NCAA televised ...

April 1, 2021

The Arts Wage a Shooting War Against STEM

Despite spending a career in technical fields and being an engineer at heart, I’ve been a lifelong fan of the ...

March 31, 2021

Energy Horror Part 3: Deep (Freeze) in the Heart of Texas

The third and final installment in the energy horror trilogy may leave viewers feeling like they’ve seen this movie before ...

March 30, 2021

Energy Horror Part 2: Boston Willingly Becomes a Putin Puppet

The second installment of the energy horror trilogy in many ways is the most disturbing. Boston is one of the ...

March 29, 2021

An Energy Horror Trilogy

Hollywood brought us epic trilogies through the years: Star Wars, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, and Clint Eastwood’s the-man-with-no-name ...

March 24, 2021

Allen Ginsberg Back Then Sounds Like Nostradamus Today

Let me get something out of the way at the start. I am not a fan of Allen Ginsberg, the ...

March 22, 2021

Ranking the Individual Beatles

The musical consensus for years has been that the Beatles were the greatest act in the history of rock. The ...

March 18, 2021

Disabilities: The Inspiration and the Outrage

You can judge a society by how well it cares for its most vulnerable. You can judge an individual’s character ...

March 16, 2021

Killing the Planet…One Beer and Burger at a Time???

Environmental zealotry surrounding climate change and carbon footprints constantly reminds us of the difference between, or perhaps the mutually exclusivity ...

March 4, 2021

Hypocrisy of the Climbing Mount Everest Complex

I’ve always been drawn to mountain climbing. The allure of hiking some of the most beautiful places on Earth, the ...

March 2, 2021

The Premeditated Murder of the Greatest Story Never Told

The Left and the environmental movement are conspiring to destroy a multi-trillion-dollar global free market that was created by American ...

February 26, 2021

House of Life of Pittsburgh: Battling Society’s Toughest Challenges

Everyone, from politicians to giant corporations, talks the talk of social justice and moral imperatives. So, it’s rare to find ...

February 24, 2021

On the Precipice: Rewriting the History of Financial Crashes

Legendary Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan knows a thing or two about the history of financial crashes. He often stated ...

February 19, 2021

A Rational Person’s Guide to Climate Change

The great Tom Wolfe astutely defined a cult as a religion with no political power. Wolfe’s observation resonates today when ...

February 12, 2021

Discovering Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

Americans who desire order, stability, and civility in life find themselves having endured a painful string of recent months. Order, ...

February 10, 2021

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of ESG

Today businesses, markets, and investors are increasingly obsessed with the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) arena. Public companies trumpet ESG ...

February 7, 2021

Requiem for the Pro Sports Fan

I am a free market and capitalism advocate; the more society has of these two, the better. I was also ...

February 4, 2021

Assessing Trump’s Four Years

With President Biden now in the White House, let’s objectively assess President Trump’s four years in office. An objective evaluation ...

December 21, 2020

DUG East Keynote Video

Deiuliis delivers keynote address at the DUG East Conference. Watch the video ...

December 14, 2020

The Unlikeliest of Doppelgangers: Dylan and Trump

A doppelganger in German folklore is a biologically unrelated look-alike of another; what some call a twin stranger. I wonder ...

December 14, 2020

Teens and Avoiding Poverty: Three Simple Yet Challenging Rules

I have a confession to make #2…in a series. From time to time, while writing The Leech and researching speech ...

December 4, 2020

Dead Men Walking: Big Time Collegiate and Professional Sports

The anno terribile that is 2020 will claim as victims many traditions, institutions, individuals, and careers. Perhaps one such casualty ...

November 18, 2020

COVID-19 copies climate as elites squash science

If you’ve been noticing an eerie similarity between the elite rhetoric surrounding the pandemic and that of climate change, you ...

November 17, 2020

The Science and the Art of Measuring Weather Fatalities

I have a confession to make #1…in a series. From time to time, while writing The Leech and researching speech ...

October 27, 2020

Biden Embraces the Manufactured Climate Change Apocalypse

Joe Biden, or at least the hollowed-out shell of what was once Joe Biden, was propped up this past weekend ...

October 16, 2020

Credit Ratings Firms’ Dereliction of Duty

Credit ratings firms have been around for over a hundred years, and through those years the capital markets have created ...

August 26, 2020

Healthy environment, economy are important

Environmentalists are getting on board with key elements of the Pittsburgh Works Together vision for the future. It’s where they’re ...

August 5, 2020

Eight irrefutable energy truths | Opinion

America’s natural gas revolution has upended energy markets, geopolitics and quality of life. Despite innovation and disruptive technology delivering this ...

June 26, 2020

Biden embraces climate radicalism

Our mothers taught us to judge a person by the company he keeps. In the case of Joe Biden, his ...

May 27, 2020

The pandemic exposed the ‘Church of Climate’ as a fraud

While the novel coronavirus has triggered a global debate on how to balance short-term infection rates with long-term economic viability, ...

April 10, 2020

Biden’s fracking ban will derail environmental and economic gains

In the midst of an international pandemic, and on a debate stage eerily surrounded by empty seats, Joe Biden couldn’t ...

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Falling, Failing, and Finding Success: Mentoring Young Adults in 2023

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Energy Crüe Podcast

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In the conversation below (and available here on most podcast ...

August 1, 2023

Venice: A City Connected by Canals…and Carbon

Venice is perhaps the world’s most famous island city, cut ...

July 11, 2023

The Logic and Morality of Share Buybacks

The following commentary is by Nick Deiuliis and Yemi Akinkugbe ...

June 5, 2023

LA County Lincoln Club • June 2023 Address

The following is a summary of Nick's June 2, 2023, ...

April 20, 2023

Current and Future Life Journeys Hanging on a Suit Rack

The following commentary by Nick Deiuliis highlights the unique partnership ...

April 10, 2023

Legacies and Adages for Domestic Energy’s Future: Texas A&M Visit

Ask a business leader what their most important asset is, ...

April 3, 2023

VFW Post 4793. Waynesburg, PA. Appalachia. America

The Vietnam War claimed over 50,000 American lives. American wounded ...

March 6, 2023

Talking Energy, Region, and Careers at the Rock: Another Best Day Ever

The summary below follows Nick Deiuliis' March 2, 2023, presentation ...

February 13, 2023

Energy News Beat Podcast

Nick Joins the Energy News Beat Podcast

In this episode of the Energy News Beat Podcast, Nick ...

February 8, 2023

Crunching the Numbers: Energy Source Externality Accounting

Nick’s discussion and commentary below follows an inquiry from an ...

January 29, 2023

The West and China: A Rabbit That Has Been Hypnotized by a Snake

Twain famously observed how history doesn’t repeat, but that it ...

January 5, 2023

America Needs a Third Party

I’m a big believer in America; where it came from, ...

December 16, 2022

Mis“LEED”ing: Fact Versus Fiction for Green Buildings

How many times have we heard those worn-out taglines of ...

December 12, 2022

Nick Introduces CNX Resources’ “Appalachia First” Vision

Watch below as Nick walks through CNX Resources “Appalachia First” ...

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