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John Leask
Tenaris
Analyst
Houston, TX
Wednesday
, July 13
1:00pm PDT
Mark Skousen, Sean Flynn (mod): Eureka! The Feds Adopt My GO Statistic
Melrose 3/4
2:00pm PDT
Grover Norquist's Coalition Meeting
The Studio
Mark Skousen: Modern Portfolio Theory: Three Shocking Charts
Melrose 3/4
3:00pm PDT
Daniele Struppa, Thomas Jefferson and Euclid: Axioms, Models and the Declaration of Independence
Melrose 3/4
4:00pm PDT
COFFEE BREAK - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND THE FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
5:00pm PDT
Mark & Jo Ann Skousen: Welcome and Introduction
Celebrity Ballroom
5:15pm PDT
Wayne Allyn Root: Is Freedom Rising?
Celebrity Ballroom
5:25pm PDT
Steve Forbes: Reviving America
Celebrity Ballroom
5:40pm PDT
Lawrence Reed, Real Heroes: Inspirational Stories of Character in the Defense of Liberty
Celebrity Ballroom
5:55pm PDT
Larry Elder, The Axis of Indoctrination: How Hollywood, Academia and Media Brainwash America
Celebrity Ballroom
6:10pm PDT
Michael Medved: The Year of Rage and What To Do About It
Celebrity Ballroom
6:25pm PDT
Grand Processional to the Welcome Cocktail Reception
Celebrity Ballroom
6:30pm PDT
Welcome Cocktail Reception & Grand Opening of the Exhibit Hall
Exhibit Hall
8:00pm PDT
Global Investments Reception
Santa Monica 4
Thursday
, July 14
7:00am PDT
BREAKFAST - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND YOGA
Exhibit Hall
Yoga with Jill Burnett
Santa Monica 4
7:50am PDT
Meet and Greet with Emcee Terry Brock
Celebrity Ballroom
8:00am PDT
The Big Bull vs Bear Debate (Bert Dohmen, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Alexander Green, Peter Schiff)
Celebrity Ballroom
8:30am PDT
Darrell MacMullin, Enabling of a Global Currency for Today's Global Commerce: Centralized or Decentralized? The Re-Invention of Gold.
Celebrity Ballroom
8:40am PDT
Richard Fink, Political Strategy: Applying Hayek's Four Steps to Social Transformation
Celebrity Ballroom
9:00am PDT
Libertarian CEOs: Creating a New Brand of Capitalism (John Allison, Bill Bonner, Jennifer Grossman, John Mackey, Mark Skousen)
Celebrity Ballroom
9:30am PDT
COFFEE BREAK - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND THE FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
10:00am PDT
Short: Safety School (3 min.) Jeremy Michael Cohen and Victoria Hill, dir. Main feature: Can We Take a Joke? (75 min.) Ted Balaker, dir.
Sin City Theater
10:35am PDT
Money Streams: New Ways to Profit From Capitalism (Rich Checkan, Josh Crumb, Darren Marks, Alf Temme, Daniel Zurbruegg)
Celebrity Ballroom
11:00am PDT
John Mackey & John Roemer, Capitalism vs Socialism: Which is the Best Model of Success?
Celebrity Ballroom
12:00pm PDT
Hosted Luncheon Swissmetal Panama (Visit Booth #102 for complimentary tickets):
Celebrity 5
1:00pm PDT
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Do We Still Have A Constitution?
Celebrity Ballroom
2:00pm PDT
Darrell MacMullin & Josh Crumb, Ditching the Legacy of Legacy Payment Rails: Democratizing Cross-Border Payments for Instant, Secure, Affordable and Accessible Transactions
Sunset 2
Lawrence Reed: FEE DAY Excuse Me, Professor
Sunset 3/4
Peter Schiff: The Junkie Economy--How Monetary Dependency Created a Zombie
Celebrity Ballroom
Tom Palmer: The Three Most Dangerous Philosphers of the 20th Century (Could Hayek be One of Them?)
Sunset 5/6
2:50pm PDT
COFFEE BREAK - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND THE FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
3:20pm PDT
Jeff Berwick & Daniel McCarthy: LIB-X Decriminalize (Not Legalize) All the Drugs!
Melrose 1/2
Just Business: Can Good Profits Save Capitalism? (John Allison, Rob Bradley, Steven Bradley, Stephen Hicks)
Celebrity Ballroom
Peter Jaworski, FEE DAY Buying & Selling Sex, Kidneys, Votes, and... Children?
Sunset 5/6
4:20pm PDT
Angela Keaton: LIB-X Bring the Troops Home Now!
Sunset 3/4
FEE Day Fear and Loathing: The Rise of American Fascism (Max Borders, Steve Horwitz, Jeffrey Tucker)
Sunset 5/6
PANEL Graduate to Prosperity! Millennials' Pathway to the American Dream (Roger Custer, Kevin Harrington, John Mackey, Carrie Sheffield, Donald Smith)
Melrose 4
5:20pm PDT
America's Future Foundation Reception
Santa Monica 2
FEE and Intercollegiate Studies Institute Joint Reception
The Studio
6:30pm PDT
Yaron Brook, Shrugging the Stigma of Success
Celebrity Ballroom
6:45pm PDT
Will Ruger: Can We Keep America Safe and Free? Toward a Better U. S. Foreign Policy
Celebrity Ballroom
6:55pm PDT
Alexander McCobin, The Future of the Student Liberty Movement
Celebrity Ballroom
7:00pm PDT
MOCK TRIAL on Global Warming
Celebrity Ballroom
8:15pm PDT
The Freedom Agenda in 2017 & Beyond
Celebrity Ballroom
9:00pm PDT
FreedomWorks Reception for Senator Ben Sasse
Celebrity 5
Friday
, July 15
7:00am PDT
Yoga with Jill Burnett
Santa Monica 4
Special Event Breakfast with Bill Bonner, Doug Casey, Peter Schiff ($): When the Dollar Stopped Working Register now! 855-850-3733 ext 202 or http://freedomfest.com/special-events-2/
The Studio
7:50am PDT
Welcome by Terry Brock
Celebrity Ballroom
8:00am PDT
Taxing Nation: Is the Supply-side Revolution Over? (Steve Forbes, Dan Johnson, Jenny Beth Martin, Grover Norquist, Andrew Puzder)
Celebrity Ballroom
8:35am PDT
Voter Access, Voting Fraud and Gerrymandering: Can Democracy Work?
Celebrity Ballroom
9:00am PDT
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
Kevin Harrington: Secrets To Early Stage Investing
Celebrity 5
LIB-X Open the Borders! (Richard Ebeling, Jacob Hornberger, Jeffrey Tucker)
Sunset 3/4
Yaron Brook & Don Watkins: Equal is Unfair
Celebrity Ballroom
10:00am PDT
COFFEE BREAK – ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
10:30am PDT
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
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
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
Climate Hustle (75 min.) Christopher Rogers, dir. PANEL "What's the Hustle?"
Sin City Theater
11:30am PDT
Daniel McCarthy & Jon Utley: Yes, We Can Afford to Reduce the Military-Industrial Complex
Sunset 5/6
LIB-X 100 Years Is Enough! Privatize All National Parks (Randy Simmons)
Sunset 3/4
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
12:30pm PDT
Hosted Luncheon (Visit Booth #407/409 for complimentary tickets ): Texas E&P
Santa Monica 2
1:30pm PDT
ATLAS SOCIETY DAY Keynesianism and the Long Run (William Thomas)
Sunset 2
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
Kevin Glass & Jared Meyer: Why Uber Turns Millennials Into Libertarians
Melrose 4
Li Schoolland: The Young Chinese Entrepreneurial Movement and Investment Opportunities
Sunset 1
2:30pm PDT
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
Li Schoolland & Lily Williams, Up from Mao: The Anti-Cultural Revolution 50 Years Later
Celebrity Ballroom
Of Dogs and Men (72 min.) Michael Ozias, dir.
Sin City Theater
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
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
Where in the World to Invest Now (Doug Casey, Marin Katusa, Adrian Day)
Sunset 2
4:20pm PDT
COFFEE BREAK - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
5:00pm PDT
Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson: Less Government Equals More Liberty
Celebrity Ballroom
5:20pm PDT
Rob Arnott, Steve Forbes: Global Turmoil, the US Elections and the Markets
Celebrity Ballroom
5:40pm PDT
Brent Bozell, Can We Transform the Biased Media? Yes! In Three Steps
Celebrity Ballroom
5:55pm PDT
Senator Rand Paul: Taking a Stand
Celebrity Ballroom
6:35pm PDT
Only in America: What Freedom Means to Me
Celebrity Ballroom
6:50pm PDT
George Foreman, The Art of Fighting in Business and Life
Celebrity Ballroom
7:30pm PDT
Special Event Reception: High Gravity Resources
The Studio
8:00pm PDT
Daniel Zurbruegg, Once in a Decade Opportunities
Santa Monica 2
9:00pm PDT
Karoake
The Gallery
Saturday
, July 16
7:00am PDT
BREAKFAST - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND YOGA
Exhibit Hall
Yoga with Jill Burnett
Santa Monica 4
8:00am PDT
Pitch Tank Presentations and Judging (Steve Forbes, Kevin Harrington, John Mackey, Michelle Seiler-Tucker, Bernt Ullmann, Greg Writer)
Celebrity Ballroom
9:00am PDT
REASON DAY The Libertarian Momentum: What It Is and How To Keep It Going Through November and into The Future
Celebrity Ballroom
9:30am PDT
COFFEE BREAK - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND THE FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
10:00am PDT
Alexander McCobin, How the Entrepreneurial Generation can Save Liberty
Sunset 3/4
Jared Labell, Taxes Are Revolting! (Why Aren't You?)
Melrose 1/2
Jon Utley, Trump’s Trade Deficits—Free Trade Is Not the Culprit --Six Ways Washington Handicaps U.S. Exporters
Sunset 1
Matt Kibbe, Socialism Kills
Wilshire B
Oil, Islam, ISIS and the Mid-East Crisis: What's Fueling the Chaos? (Gene Epstein, George Gilder, Tawfik Hamid, Daniel McCarthy)
Celebrity Ballroom
The Power Of Mastermind Investing & Marketing (Kevin Harrington, Bernt Ullman, Greg Writer)
Celebrity 5
The Road to TOTAL Marijuana Legalization (Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Michael Blunk, Rob Kampia)
Melrose 4
Deep Web (90 min.) Alex Winter, dir. PANEL "Bitcoin, Silk Road, and Free Markets that Aren't So Free"
Sin City Theater
11:00am PDT
Colleen Cowles, Civil Liberties Lost: War On Drugs = War on Us
Melrose 1/2
Foreign Policy Panel (Barbara Kolm, Leon Louw, Will Ruger, Li Schoolland, Joel Stern
Celebrity Ballroom
Jeffrey Tucker & Randy Barnett, LIB-X I'm MADD: The Case Against Drunk Driving Laws
Melrose 4
12:00pm PDT
CLOSING PANEL with Adam Brandon, Steve Forbes, John Fund, Nick Gillespie, Mark Skousen
Celebrity Ballroom
1:40pm PDT
Jeff Berwick: Live Free By Becoming a Permanent Traveler/Prior Taxpayer (PT)
Sunset 5/6
REASON DAY Election 2016: The Collapse of the Republicans and Democrats, the Rise of the Libertarian Party, and the Glorious Future of American Politics
Melrose 4
2:40pm PDT
Chris Edwards, Privatization: Will the Global Revolution Come to America?
Sunset 5/6
Jose Cordeiro: You Can Live Forever! The New Technology
Wilshire A
Nicholas Sarwark, Diversifying Your Political Investment
Wilshire B
REASON DAY Vice Is Nice: How Legalized Booze, Gambling, and Pot Have Made America a Better and Better Country
Melrose 4
3:30pm PDT
COFFEE BREAK - ENJOY THE EXHIBIT HALL AND THE FILM FESTIVAL
Exhibit Hall
PANEL "The Money Changers: A Brief History of Banking" Yaron Brook, Warren Coats, Gary Alexander
Sin City Theater
4:00pm PDT
Blockchains: How Bitcoin Technology Changed Everything (Anthem Blanchard, Naomi Brockwell, George Gilder, Michael Terpin)
Melrose 1/2
FreedomWorks House Freedom Caucus Panel with Congressmen Brat, Schweikert and Gosar
The Studio
Speculator: Doug Casey's First Novel
Melrose 3
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