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I Was There
By Danny Lewis Where were you when three provisions of the “Patriot” Act expired? On Sunday, May 31, approximately sixty liberty lovers showed up to the United States Capitol with red “Stand With Rand” t-shirts to silently protest [...]
Economic Placebos
By Zac Nickerson Earlier last week American business magnate Steve Wynn was interviewed on Ralston Live, a show on Nevada’s KNPB Public Television channel 5. World Net Daily (WND) reported on the interview in an informative article which you [...]
FOMC March Minutes
By Zac Nickerson Economists have been all in a buzz since Wednesday due to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve releasing the minutes from their most recent Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Reading through the tedious and [...]
President Obama's Comments at Selma
By Zac Nickerson President Obama made a telling comment in his speech in Selma, Alabama on Saturday. While commenting on the tragic events of that day in 1965, and the commemoration of its fifty year anniversary, he said, “What greater [...]
FEC Public Hearing
By Zac Nickerson Last Wednesday the Federal Election Commission (FEC) held a public hearing on advance notice of proposed rulemaking following the Supreme Court decision in the McCutcheon v. FEC case. Campaign for Liberty was in attendance, [...]
Spring Internship in Retrospect
By Zac Nickerson As my spring internship is swiftly coming to a close I would like to review the past four and a half months. Throughout this spring I have had the opportunity not only to meet the great people here at Campaign for Liberty but [...]
Baptists, Bootleggers, and Balderdash
By Zac Nickerson George Will recently wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled “When Bootleggers and Baptists Converge”. In the article he discusses how the State has become both sides of the Bootleggers and Baptists economic [...]
Tax Day
By Zac Nickerson Tax Day (April 15th) is quickly approaching and many Americans are feeling a sense of dread. This feeling is not unfounded, in that there is something inherently American, yea human, about wanting to keep what you earn and not [...]
Last Week's Forum at Cato Institute
By Zachary Nickerson Last Wednesday, the CATO Institute held a book forum on “Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution: Reforming Government’s Role in the Monetary System” with one of the editors of the book, Professor Larry [...]
Why Audit the Federal Reserve? Don’t We Already Do That?
By Zac Nickerson Why Audit the Federal Reserve? Don’t We Already Do That? The quick answer to that is "Yes." But it isn’t audited entirely. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 after the Federal Reserve Act became law. In the [...]