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The Return of the Entrepreneur-Statesman

April 27, 2025 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

From Washington’s merchant roots to Elon Musk’s free-speech crusade, America’s business leaders have long shaped liberty—but too often ceded ground to big government. A new crop of outspoken CEOs is reviving that founders’ tradition, echoing New Zealand’s 1980s reforms and proving entrepreneurs can still unlock prosperity by challenging state overreach.

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: bill gates, Doug Myers, elon musk, marc andreesen, Roger Kerr, sir ron trotter

Why CEOs who believe in free markets must defend them

March 23, 2022 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

David Harsanyi wrote today that a key takeaway from the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings is that the late Justice Antonin Scalia won the debate over constitutional originalism. Whether or not Brown believes in it, her answers supported the case for it. In concluding, Harsanyi made a critical point that is highly relevant outside these hearings […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Charles Mackay, David Harsanyi, free markets, Roger Kerr

Email from Roger Kerr to Sir Douglas Myers, June 2011

October 27, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

From: Roger Kerr Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 3:58 p.m. To: Sir Douglas Myers Subject: Honours Attachments: Letter from the Prime Minister.pdf; Letter from the Governor-General.pdf Dear Douglas See the attached letters. I have a suspicion you were in the loop. The plotters got together a pretty solid line up of supporters – Bill Gallagher, […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Douglas Myers, Roger Kerr

When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets

April 29, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

<This op-ed first appeared in the Washington Examiner on April 25, 2021> It’s one thing for business leaders to sit out policy debates, but it’s quite another for them to argue for policies that will harm long-term shareholder interests. Yet that’s what we’re witnessing today with the likes of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos supporting raising the […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: Douglas Myers, jeff bezos, new zealand, Roger Kerr, sir ron trotter

Roger Kerr – Nomination for a New Zealand Royal Honour

October 28, 2020 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

In the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Roger Kerr was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business. The following is the nomination for this honour submitted by Sir William Gallagher: NOMINATION FOR A NEW ZEALAND ROYAL HONOUR Section 1 – Information about the nominator – person making the nomination […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Bill Gallagher, Roger Kerr, Sir William Gallagher

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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