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James Dale Davidson

Né(e): March 25, 1941 – San Antonio, Texas, United States

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James Dale Davidson is an American investor and financial writer who founded the National Taxpayers Union and, with William Rees-Mogg, wrote Blood in the Streets, The Great Reckoning, and The Sovereign Individual. ((https://www.ntu.org/library/doclib/2024/11/2019-annual-report.pdf)) His writing spans investing, taxation, and large-scale economic change. ((https://www.ntu.org/library/doclib/2024/11/2019-annual-report.pdf))

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James Dale Davidson emerged first as an activist before he became widely known as a financial author. Educated at the University of Maryland and later at Oxford, he founded the National Taxpayers Union in 1969 while still young, turning complaints about taxes and federal waste into an organized public campaign. By the mid-1970s he had already become a visible media presence, with television appearances and magazine essays, and the themes that would define his later books were already in place: skepticism toward government expansion, fascination with structural change, and a preference for system-level arguments over narrow policy debate. ((https://reason.com/1976/12/01/spotlight-jim-davidson/))

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We believe that the age of individual economic sovereignty is coming
-The Sovereign Individual
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This is not meant to be a genuinely historical account
-Note on Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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Points of discontinuity, where there are abrupt breaks in trend, offer the greatest chances for profit
-Profiting from Politics
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Today, the world’s most valuable passport on the black market is not the US, but the Brazilian
-The American Dream Goes South
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One thing is sure: when you have all this financial hanky-panky and chaos, the gold price tends to go up
-Davidson: Obama’s Smoking Habit Bodes Ill for Healthcare
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I think this is basically a depression
-James Davidson: Jobs Data Show US in a Depression
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Brazil is a place where people are making money
-James Dale Davidson to Moneynews: Brazil Will Be What America Was
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For a senior figure in the establishment, Lord Rees-Mogg was a remarkably open-minded libertarian
-William Rees-Mogg: A Remembrance
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The classical detective, unlike the grubby, hard-boiled shoot-'em-up hero of conventional police drama, restores order to a disordered world
-A Case of Murder Most Celebrated

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