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Financial Officer/Economist

[that's their business]

Austrian (for those who get that)

active dad-hood, voracious reader, movie buff, fantasy baseball, political commentary, praxeology, studying the philosophy of individual liberty

Movies: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Great Escape, Gettysburg, The Godfather, Godfather Part II, Ben-Hur, Schindler's List, A Few Good Men, Casablanca, Jaws, Dr. Strangelove, Watchmen, Lawrence of Arabia, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Glory, M*A*S*H, The Sixth Sense, The Caine Mutiny, The African Queen, The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Man for All Seasons, The Usual Suspects, L.A. Confidential, Die Hard, Apollo 13, Alien, Aliens, Field of Dreams, The Terminator, Terminator II, The Road Warrior, The Warriors, The Dirty Dozen, Blade Runner, Flight of the Phoenix, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Black Hawk Down, Eight Men Out, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Zulu // Shows: Babylon 5, X-Files, 24, Heroes, Daybreak, Lost, The Walking Dead

Eclectic: Jimmy Buffett, Kansas, Fallout Boys, Styx, AC/DC, Sugarcult, Elvis Costello, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Beatles ... pretty much anything that isn't a) sung through the nose, b) written by a 3 year-old, c) called rap music (sic) or d) disco

History: Shelby Footes Civil War trilogy, At Dawn We Slept, FDRs Folly, Breakout: The Chosin River Campaign, The Longest Day, The Forgotten Man, The Johnstown Flood, Americas Great Depression, Band of Brothers, John Adams, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, The Myth of the Robber Barons, Schindlers List, 1776, On Wings of Eagles, A Bridge Too Far, The Right Stuff // Economics: Economics in One Lesson, The Wealth of Nations, Capitalism and Freedom, The Constitution of Liberty, Human Action, Socialism, Free to Choose, A Monetary History of the United States, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Capitalism, The Road to Serfdom, The Fatal Conceit, The Failure of the New Economics, Meltdown, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality // Other Non-Fiction: Original Meanings, The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist Papers, The Art of War, How to Lie With Statistics, The Creature from Jekyll Island, And the Band Played On, The Skeptical Environmentalist // Science Fiction: Dune, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Gettysburg, Grant Comes East, Never Call Retreat, Enders Game, Fatherland, World War Z, Slaughterhouse-Five, Dangerous Visions, Replay, Lucifers Hammer, Footfall, The Doomsday Book, The Lathe of Heaven, The Word for World is Forest, A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Riverworld series, The Third World War, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Stranger in a Strange Land, the Hammers Slammers series, The Man in the High Castle, The Last Ship, The Martian Chronicles, On the Beach, the Wild Cards series, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Day of the Triffids, Harry Turtledoves Confederacy series, Watchmen, Harry Turtledoves Worldwar series, the Years Best Science Fiction series // Fantasy: the Song of Ice and Fire series, The Hobbit, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Lord of the Rings, the Sword of Truth series, Bored of the Rings, the Chronicles of the Black Company, the Book of the New Sun series, the Elric series, the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series, the Book of Swords series, the Harry Potter series, the Amber series, the Dark Tower series, The Keep, It, The Stand, the Years Best Fantasy & Horror series // Other Fiction: Gates of Fire, The Caine Mutiny, Les Miserables, The Killer Angels, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Shogun, Tai-Pan, Noble House, Point of Impact, The Firm, The Eagle Has Landed, The Count of Monte Cristo, Fail-Safe, the Jack Ryan series, the Jason Bourne series, the Hornblower series, the Aubrey/Maturin series, Ivanhoe, Gone With the Wind, Lonesome Dove, Presumed Innocent, Maus: A Survivors Tale, Loose Tails, The Walking Dead series, Toons for Our Times