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Seeds of Liberty Podcast Episode 32: Truth Is Not A Numbers Game

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Please enjoy this recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week we were joined by Lawrence Reed, president of the Freedom for Economic Education (FEE). Herein we discuss some of the articles in is ‘Real Heroes’ series including ‘Missionary for Free Markets’, ‘Home Education Inspires a Love of Learning’, and ‘A Life Devoted to the Freedom of Others’, as well as discussing slavery, protectionism, truant officers, bitcoin, letting 100 flowers bloom, his new book ‘Excuse Me, Professor” and more!

 

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

 

 

 

 

 

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Lawrence Reed: Voluntaryist, Author, and President of Foundation for Economic Education

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Please enjoy my recent conversation with Lawrence Reed. Herein we discussed how he became a Voluntaryist, his book “Excuse Me, Professor”, WW II lifted us out of the Great Depression fallacy, “government” is a tick, myths of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”, useless child labor laws, basic definition of terms, what is Capitalism, “government” causes most problems, truth about FDR’s New Deal, Great Depression history, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Wagner Act, FDR Executive Orders, Gold Nationalization, The Federal Reserve failures, natural vs. coercive currency, gold/silver, Green Bean Federal Committee, inflation is theft of purchasing power, one gold coin global currency, Creature from Jekyll Island, the law of diminishing marginal utility, Austrian Economics, Socialism, free markets increase wealth, robber barons myth, John D. Rockefeller and more!

 

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Friedrich August von Hayek

 

 

 

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