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Welcome everyone to the 2015 National Review Institute Ideas Summit.

The story goes that when the Berlin Wall was following, a 90-year-old Frederick Hayek washed on TV and despite the fact that he could barely

speak at that time looked away from the TV, smiled, and said,

I told you so.

It is the contention and perhaps the presumption

of this conference that we all will be able to look back decades from now and say the same thing.

And I'll be honest, it's been a tough time for these National Review Institute ideas summits the last several years beginning in 2006.

If memory serves the themes of the last three National Review Institute summits have been what went wrong, not again, and

God help us.

This one is different, but before I do anything else I want to thank the

National Review Institute and especially Lindsay Craig and all her wonderful

staff for the hard work they've done to make this possible. Thanks, guys.

So why are we in a different cast of mind?

Well, just on a personal note, I don't like to brag about my personal

financial circumstances but I was an early investor in Uranium 1.

Yes, my wife was a little nervous

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