Homeschool Seminars for Speech and Debate

Economic Freedom, Government Intervention, and Financial Meltdowns

• May 11, Lighthouse Educational Center, Pinehurst, Texas - Flyer
• May 12, Center for the American Ideas, Houston, Texas - Flyer

• Readings: Money and the Present Crisis by Gerry O'Driscoll
Mr. Market Miscalculates book review. Additional readings recommended at www.thefreemanonline.org.

Economic Freedom, Government Intervention, and Finacial Meltdowns

Gregory Rehmke, Economic Thinking & Dr. Brian Domitrovic, Center for American Idea

• How to Escape from Economic Crisis: The Lessons from History, Dr. Brian Domitrovic, CAI, SHSU

• Business Bad Guys or Good Guys? Speculating, insider trading, “price gauging,” outsourcing, “dumping,” takeovers, “hostile” mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs are surprisingly good for the American economy.

• From Enron to Financial Meltdown - Greg Rehmke

• A Hand Up not a Hand Out How Capitalism, Trade, Mutual-Aid, and Philanthropy Helped the Poor in America and the Developing World.

• Banking Notes...

SPEAKERS
Gregory Rehmke directs programs for Economic Thinking/ E Pluribus Unum Films, and is a program consultant for the Foundation for Economic Education. He has given talks for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Houston World Affairs Council seminars for teachers, and Institute for Economic Studies-Europe seminars for college students. He is co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Economics and manages www.EconomicThinking.org. More than 5,000 homeschool students have attended Economic Thinking and FEE seminars.

Dr. Brian Domitrovic, The Center for the American Idea, is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he studied History and Economics, and a B.A. in History and Mathematics from Columbia. His research interests are in the intellectual history of supply-side economics, and his book Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked The Supply-side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity, is due in Sept. 2009 by ISI Books.

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