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FreedomFest 2016

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9:00am PDT

Aaron Hamlin & Andrew Jennings: How Can Smarter Voting Methods Improve Democracy? Sunset 5/6

DEBATE Who Needs the Fed? (Warren Coats, John Tamny, Dan Mitchell) The Studio Jim Copland, Overcriminalizing America: What States Can Do to Keep Good People Free Sunset 2 Joe Lawrence: Cashing In On the Communications Revolution Wilshire A John T. Reed, What's Hot, What's Not in Real Estate: Best Ways to Profit Melrose 4 Kevin Harrington: Secrets To Early Stage Investing Celebrity 5 LIB-X Open the Borders! (Richard Ebeling, Jacob Hornberger, Jeffrey Tucker) Sunset 3/4 Mark Whitmore: Currency Investing in an Era of Monetary Madness: Taking Advantage of Reckless Central Banking and the Formation of Serial Bubbles Sunset 1 Peter Zipper, Belize: The Best Offshore Banking Country in the World Wilshire B Term Limits: It's Something You Can Do Featuring Gary Johnson Melrose 3 Yaron Brook & Don Watkins: Equal is Unfair Celebrity Ballroom

10:30am PDT

Adam Trexler: The Aurum as a Store of Value to Make Investing Available Around the World Sunset 2 Alf Temme: Fitness Isn't Health Melrose 1/2 Amir Adnani: Freedom and Gold – A Unique Way to Leverage Gold’s Rise Sunset 1 Conrad Black & Robert Murphy, FDR: Champion or Opponent of Liberty? Celebrity Ballroom Doug Casey & Jon Utley, LIB-X My Adventures Turning Third World Hell-holes into Anarcho-Capitalist Havens Sunset 3/4 Ed Asner & Marc Eliot, Red Lights, Green Lights and BlackLists: My Life in Hollywood Melrose 3 George Gilder, The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does Wilshire A Is a Harvard MBA Worth It? (Donald Smith, John Chisholm, John T. Reed, Gina Carr) The Studio Lee Edwards: Is the Cold War Really Over? Militant Communism on the Rise in Russia, China and North Korea Melrose 4 Lyn Ulbricht, The Silk Road Case: How It Impacts Your Liberty Wilshire B Richard Ebeling, Jacob Hornberger, Jeffrey Tucker: Separate Money and the State Celebrity 5 Suhail Khan: Your Right to Privacy In an Age of High Tech and Big Government Sunset 5/6

11:30am PDT

Bob Barr: Does National Security Require Losing Our Bill of Rights? Sunset 1 Bridging the Racial Divide: Engaging Liberty (Kristoffer Adams, Will Coley, Jose Cordeiro, Lily Williams, Kevin Williamson) Melrose 4 Daniel McCarthy & Jon Utley: Yes, We Can Afford to Reduce the Military-Industrial Complex Sunset 5/6 Greg Galloway, Sleep Well At Night (SWAN) Strategy: How to Earn High Income and Beat the Market Most of the Time Melrose 1/2 Lawson Bader, Victor Bernson, Chris Rufer: Keeping Government's Prying Hands Off Charity and Non-Profits Wilshire B LIB-X 100 Years Is Enough! Privatize All National Parks (Randy Simmons) Sunset 3/4 Matt Kibbe & Matt Battaglia, Indoctrination: How Graphic Novels Set The Cultural Narrative Wilshire A PANEL Privacy, Security, and Encryption (Terry Easton, Jeff Kalibjian, Zafar Khan, Kevin O'Neil, Suhail Khan) Melrose 3 Trump, Pro and Con: The YUGE Debate (Dan Mangru, Wayne Allyn Root, Jeffrey Tucker, Matt Welch) Celebrity Ballroom Van Simons: 40 Years of Secrets in Making Money in Art, Rare Coins, and Collectibles Sunset 2

1:30pm PDT

ATLAS SOCIETY DAY Keynesianism and the Long Run (William Thomas) Sunset 2 Bob Barr, Frank Karsten, DEBATE Democracy Is Not Freedom Wilshire B Carla Gericke & Austin Petersen, LIB-X If At First You Don’t Secede: A Case for New Hampshire Independence Sunset 3/4 Do Dividends Make a Difference? (Rob Arnott, Joel Stern, Rodolfo Milani) Celebrity Ballroom Generational Theft: How Washington Is Robbing the Next Generation of Prosperity (Adam Brandon, Charlie Kirk, Rep. Brat) Melrose 3 High Gravity Presents One of Their Industry Partners / Geologist Harvey H. Howell As They Discuss Their Recent Success And Current Opportunities In South Texas Wilshire A John Fund, Hillary and Trump: Who Is The Evil of Two Lessers? Sunset 5/6 Kevin Glass & Jared Meyer: Why Uber Turns Millennials Into Libertarians Melrose 4 Li Schoolland: The Young Chinese Entrepreneurial Movement and Investment Opportunities Sunset 1 Stephen Cox: Why Ayn Rand Was Wrong about Religion Melrose 1/2

2:30pm PDT

Applied Austrian Economics: Outlook for Interest Rates, Inflation and the Boom/Bust Cycle (Chris Casey, Adrian Day, Gene Epstein, Robert Murphy, Keith Weiner, Justin Mohr) Melrose 4 Bert Dohmen: Why the Next Crisis Will Be Worse Than 2008 The Studio Ed Hudgins, ATLAS SOCIETY DAY Technological Challenges to Freedom’s Future Melrose 3 Heather Wagenhals: Turning Critics into Converts Sunset 1 Las Vegas Investment Club, Fire Your Financial Advisor! How to Invest Like the 1% With Proven Track Records -- We Are Doing It! Sunset 5/6 Li Schoolland & Lily Williams, Up from Mao: The Anti-Cultural Revolution 50 Years Later Celebrity Ballroom M.A. Plummer: $50+ Oil – The Oil Boom is Coming Back Celebrity 5 Marc Eliot, Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend Wilshire A Michelle Seiler-Tucker, How to Buy & Sell a Business for Maximum Profits Sunset 2 Steven Kates, Political Economy in Crisis: Were the Classical Economists Right After All? Wilshire B Why Every Attempt at Tax Reform Has Failed (Jack Boyle, Dan Johnson, Emily Kingston, Robin Koerner, Geoffrey Lawrence, Dr. Timothy Nash) Sunset 3/4

3:30pm PDT

David Kelley, ATLAS SOCIETY DAY Equality: Good and Bad Melrose 3 Gary Johnson & William Weld: Can Liberty Win the White House? Celebrity Ballroom Ken Schoolland: Why Donald Trump is YUGELY Wrong About Immigration and Trade Sunset 3/4 Latin Libre: From Cuba to Argentina (Jose Cordeiro Federico Fernandez, Ramon Parellada, Mark Klugmann) Melrose 4 Michael G. Pravica: The Mysterious and Brilliant Nikola Tesla Melrose 1/2 Steve Stengell, Direct Oil Well Investments -“Capital Preservation through Multiple Well Diversification” Wilshire A Tim O'Fallon: Four Valuable Opportunities in the Rare Coin Market Sunset 1 Wall Street and the Elections (Rob Arnott, Christopher Long, Rodolfo Milani, Donald Smith, Paul Wendee) Sunset 5/6 Wayne Gorsek: Nutraceuticals that May Slow and Reverse Aging and Memory Loss Wilshire B Where in the World to Invest Now (Doug Casey, Marin Katusa, Adrian Day) Sunset 2