Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View It is a low benefit to give me something. It is a high benefit to enable me to do something for myself.  – Ralph Waldo…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Think of inspiration as a force not immune to the laws of entropy.– Rick Rubin THINKING OUT LOUD Eating Crow It’s always easiest to…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View I show myself to be not in the least a clever speaker, unless indeed they call him a clever speaker who speaks the truth.–…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.– C.S. Lewis THINKING OUT LOUD…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.– Henry David Thoreau THINKING OUT LOUD Trump Wins the Super Bowl I needed a…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the worst.– C.S. Lewis THINKING OUT LOUD The Collective…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Great art is never created in the safe middle ground but always at the edge. Originality is dangerous.– Salman Rushdie THINKING OUT LOUD The…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.–Rainer Maria Rilke THINKING OUT LOUD The Oopsie Doopsie It…