Welcome to Episode 30 of everyone’s favorite podcast LibertyWeek, with your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist and very special guest Jeremy Lott. We start with the end of the U.S. economy as we have known it: the $790 billion economic stimulus plan and its chilling consequences. We take note of Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit’s pledge to work for $1 a year and celebrate some good news with Alabama’s plan to legalize beer with a higher alcohol content than most wines.…

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February is an important month in the history of American commerce. In a few days will be the birthday of one of the country’s earliest business innovators and large-scale entrepreneurs.

During a time period of America’s existence as an English colony and then a young nation – when, to put it mildly, communication and transportation faced challenges – this businessman’s enterprise processed 1.5 million fish per year sent throughout the 13 American colonies and the British West Indies. The mill he…

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