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The author's MBA provided scant seasoning for his new job at the Waffle House. His account of the job is fun and interesting, but that's not all the book has to offer. Adams frequently digresses and teaches some sound economic principles.

Starting with President Bush, and continuing into President Obama’s term, the US government has paid out more than $11 trillion in stimulus money.

Why is real, free-market growth so hated by the political classes?

"Ah, the first sign of socialism — soap that does not clean."

The state both caused the problem and prevented people from protecting themselves from the resulting violence.

Forty years ago today, on the morning of Sunday, August 15, 1971, the US president, Richard Nixon, declared the inconvertibility of the dollar into gold. It was to be the great liberation that Keynesians and governments had dreamed of for decades. The results, however, have been catastrophic.

People should live below their means during the recession.

The biggest success of his freelance career was a three-volume satirical novel.

These riots are fueled by the yob society generated out of the paper-money welfare state.

Government rests on violence and force; it is sustained by soldiers, policemen, and courts.