Government Policy

Address to the Jonathan Club, World Affairs Group

The following is a summary of Nick's June 12, 2024, address to the World Affairs Group of the Jonathan Club ...

Harvesting History: Farmer Activism is Democracy’s Early Warning System

By Nick Deiuliis Elites have a long history of looking down on and patronizing the working classes. It’s a sad ...

The Illusion of “The End of History?”: Unraveling Fukuyama’s Miscalculations

By Nick Deiuliis Today the world is trembling with international strife. Russia continuing its brutal grind in Ukraine, Iran funding ...

20 Reasons Why the Worst is Yet to Come with Inflation

The start of 2024 has brought a symphony of assurance from economic experts, the business media, Wall Street, Biden administration ...

Notes from the Underground: Libertarianism Hiding in Classic Lit

By Nick Deiuliis Fyodor Dostoyevsky is widely recognized as one of the giants of literature. Of his most noted works, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...