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Nelson Hultberg

Nelson Hultberg

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Biography

Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and the Executive Director of Americans for a Free Republic www .afr.org. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Dallas Morning News, Insight, The Freeman, Liberty, and The Social Critic, as well as numerous Internet sites. He is the author of Why We Must Abolish The Income Tax And The IRS (1997) and Breaking the Demopublican Monopoly(2004). He is presently finishing a book on political-economic philosophy entitled The Golden Mean: The Case for Libertarian Politics and Conservative Values.

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  • Controlling Gold Over Time

    Published 20 December 2005 | viewed 6,069 times

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    Published 10 October 2005 | viewed 5,072 times

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  • The Money Fallacies of Rothbard

    Published 15 September 2005 | viewed 5,288 times

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