“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

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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” ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ranking the Individual Beatles

The musical consensus for years has been that the Beatles were the greatest act in the history of rock. The ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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DUG East Keynote Video

Deiuliis delivers keynote address at the DUG East Conference. Watch the video ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Biden embraces climate radicalism

Our mothers taught us to judge a person by the company he keeps. In the case of Joe Biden, his ...
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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, ...
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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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Training Tomorrow’s Worker to Run Western PA’s Petrochemical Industry

Last week, the CNX Foundation Mentorship Academy spent two days ...
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It Takes More Than Sidney Crosby to Have a Hockey Night in Pittsburgh

The Mentorship Academy, an initiative of CNX Foundation, held its ...
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Nick Discusses Global and U.S. Energy Demand with CNBC

Nick joined CNBC on Friday, Oct. 29, to discuss global ...
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Building Trades on a Roll: Female Academy Class Visits the Carpenters

The Mentorship Academy’s female class held its first career site ...
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Trades Showcase Rewarding Careers to Academy Students

The Mentorship Academy’s male class held its first career site ...
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Second Academy Kick Off Session Reveals Importance of Mentors

We launched the female class for the Mentorship Academy this ...
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Let’s Get It Started – Mentorship Academy Kicks Off

The wise inform us that every day is a gift ...
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Deiuliis Addresses 2021 PIOGA Spring Meeting

On Wednesday, May 19, Nick Deiuliis served as the Pennsylvania ...
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Broadening Path to Middle Class Starts with Closing Digital Divide

On May 4, 2021, Nick Deiuliis joined Pittsburgh Steeler legend ...
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Nick Deiuliis’ Forthcoming Book, “The Leech,” to be Released to Public

Today, Nick Deiuliis announced a digital release of his forthcoming ...
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New York Post

Pennsylvania town saved by fracking fears Biden will kill its prosperity

CANONSBURG, PA. — Thirty years ago, Jason Capps was a ...
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Pittsburgh Business Times

Deiuliis Announces Formation of Mentorship Academy to Support Local, Disadvantaged Youth

(Pittsburgh, PA.) – Today, Nick Deiuliis announced the launch of ...
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PCN “On the Issues” Interview – Feb 11, 2021

Nick joined the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) for an “On ...
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Excerpt from WSBA Interview – Part 2

Excerpt from WSBA Interview – Part 1