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Lessons of the Cold War with Peter Robinson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Importance of Entrepreneurship in Berlin

After the fall Berlin which is what I named the t-shirt shop opened right at checkpoint Charlie on the Friedrichstrasse in April of 1990 just one month before the flood of backpackers was to begin. He would set up a blanket with about ten sets of hammers and chisels with a sign that said rent a hammer and chisel five-douch marks for fifteen minutes. People would drop money in my hand take the tools and just bring them back when they were done. Did I make a killing? You bet your Venus nitzel I did. Well not by today's standards of tech millionaires and billionaires but by the standards of a kid from Queens New York it was a

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