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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 | Quotes

And on the Republican side, congratulations to John McCain. He was a big winner up in New Hampshire, too. ... Fascinating comeback story, this John McCain, quite a guy. Highly decorated veteran. Spent 5 1/2 years in prison then went into politics. Usually

And on the Republican side, congratulations to John McCain. He was a big winner up in New Hampshire, too. ... Fascinating comeback story, this John McCain, quite a guy. Highly decorated veteran. Spent 5 1/2 years in prison then went into politics. Usually it's the other way around.

Ч Jay Leno, The Tonight Show

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Michael Ostrolenk and Kevin Rollins talk about what it means to not hide behind a "philosophical barricade".

Lizard Tails and Perverse Effects: Social Change without Social Destruction

тАЬLizard tailsтАЭ are problems created by attempting to hide a problem from our view without actually changing the constraints that we face. The lizard tails must then be hidden by another cosmetic reform, which itself creates real problems.

— Kevin Rollins, Lizard Tails and Perverse Effects: Social Change without Social Destruction

The Price of Power

"Being a superpower is expensive. It’s not something we 'earn' or 'deserve' or are given by God. We actually have to pay for it. It costs billions in foreign aid, military and intelligence operations."

"Why don’t we just stop projecting our power abroad?"

-- Joe Swetnam, The Price of Power

Kevin Rollins’s Weblog

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Sound Money for Our Troubles

by Kevin Rollins

Can moves toward free banking and sound money help us fix our economy? I review Judy Shelton’s Fixing the Dollar Now. Shelton’s short book is a great place for the monetary theory novice who wants to learn the history of the dollar, the Founder’s ideas about what money should be, and what the government can do to make the dollar more reliable and secure.