A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion – Video

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Libertarian for Florida Gov talks Police Misconduct and Body Cams AND POLICE MILITARIZATION – Video

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Libertarian Think Tank is Spoiling for a Fight with the Fed

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The Cato Institute has some bones to pick with the Federal Reserve.

The Washington libertarian think tank this week will launch a new Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. Its goal: challenge the central banks policies and explore alternative ways to manage the U.S. money supply, including but not limited to a return to the gold standard.

I think we can do better than the Federal Reserve, said George Selgin, the centers director and a former economics professor at the University of Georgia. We should be exploring how to do better. We should be exploring alternatives that could do better, instead of dismissing that entire inquiry as something that should be only of interest to people on the fringe.

The new center is the latest manifestation of growing public and academic attention on the Fed and central banking after the 2008 financial crisis. Another Washington think tank, the Brookings Institution, last December launched the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, where former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is a distinguished fellow in residence.

(Journal contributor David Wessel is the director of the Hutchins Center, and former Journal editor George Melloan is on the new Cato centers executive advisory council.)

The Feds extraordinary actions in recent years helping rescue large financial firms, pinning interest rates at zero for nearly six years and counting, three rounds of bond-buying aimed at stimulating economic recovery remain controversial.

Critics have variously accused the Fed of bailing out fat-cat Wall Street bankers, harming Americans who rely on interest from their savings, distorting the flows of the free market, failing to generate sustainable economic growth and flirting with out-of-control inflation and a debased currency. Defenders say the Feds policies prevented the crisis from escalating into a financial catastrophe, helped stabilize the financial system and helped nurture a fitful recovery, and they note inflation remains low and the dollar strong.

Criticism of the Fed, Mr. Selgin acknowledged, has come not just from serious economists but also conspiracy theorists with outlandish and often-distasteful ideas.

One of my goals, as the director of the center, is to be in charge of damage control. That consists of making sure our work isnt tainted by this kind of amateur stuff, Mr. Selgin said. We need to keep ourselves pure in terms of our writing being as scholarly as it can be. If we do that, we can make a strong case against holding the Federal Reserve to be the best of all possible monetary systems.

The center boasts some heavy hitters in the economics world. Its academic advisers include two Nobel laureates, New York Universitys Thomas J. Sargentand Chapman Universitys Vernon L. Smith, as well as Stanford University economist John B. Taylorand others.

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Sarvis addresses students

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Libertarian Senate Candidate discusses social, economic policy by Will Marshall | Oct 02 2014 | 10/02/14 1:52am

Libertarian Virginia Senate candidate Robert Sarvis spoke at a Students for Individual Liberty event at Clark Hall Wednesday, outlining his platform in the upcoming midterm election.

The Annandale native broke into the spotlight when he ran as a third-party candidate in last years Virginia gubernatorial election, defining his brand of libertarianism as a best of both worlds, striking a balance between what he considers the Republican and Democratic parties best policies.

Generally speaking, Sarvis said he identifies with the rights fiscal policies and the lefts social policies.

Sarvis began his political career as a GOP candidate running for state Senate, eventually dropping his Republican affiliation and taking up the Libertarian mantle.

After I ran in 2012 as a libertarian Republican, I learned that the GOP is not a good vehicle for liberty candidates, Sarvis said. They are hypocritical on economic issues and strident on social issues. I feel like the two-party system is broken. I could have run as an independant, but thats not leaving behind something that outlasts you.

Sarvis emphasized what he considers the most urgent issues libertarian candidates need to address the dwelling on the long, costly drug war, which he blames for saddling the nation with excess expenditures in the last 50 years.

Thanks to the drug war, we have millions in prison the highest incarceration rate in the world, Sarvis said. A third of those are for nonviolent crimes, which, a) costs money, and b) is wasted human potential.

Other issues topping his list of priorities included reforming certain entitlement programs and deregulating areas where he believes the free market would be a more effective solution.

Obamacare is a problem but weve also had 100 years of misregulation of the health care system by both major parties, Sarvis said.

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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) Archive Gala | BFI #LFF – Video

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