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James Dale Davidson

出生: 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))

传记与作者历程

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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名言

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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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社区声音

"Fortunately, James Dale Davidson, the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union, has not been deceived"

Reason

"Finally, get a copy of "The Sovereign Individual" by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg"

Scott Burns

"Nevertheless, Davidson and Rees-Mogg must be given their due"

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"James Dale Davidson, the chairman of the National Taxpayers Union, is a forceful man of action"

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"In 1997, James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg introduced the world to "mega-politics"

Forbes

"Davidson and Rees-Mogg, who publish Strategic Investment, present an apocalyptic exercise that is unconvincing"

Publishers Weekly

"But his career took a dramatic turn after he heard James Dale Davidson ... give what Sanford recalls as an "apocalyptic" speech"

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"Davidson and Rees-Mogg ... afford genuinely thoughtful perspectives on an arguably uncertain future"

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"Davidson and Rees-Mogg's amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet"

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