I will be speaking at the 10th annual Freedomfest in Las Vegas in July

Posted by John Reed on May 28, 2017

The 10th annual FreedomFest convention will be at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas from July 19 to July 22nd. I think I have spoken at about 7 or 8 of them and I will be speaking again at this one. I will be the real estate/hyperinflation guy on a panel with Jim Rogers, Nicholas Vardy, and Louis Navallier with Gary Alexander moderating. The panel is about what we would do differently if we had our investing lives to live over.

I am really proud to be among the list of speakers there. Here is a partial list of this year’s other speakers: William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Greg Gutfeld, Naomi Brockwell (the bitcoin girl), Nick Gillespie (Reason magazine), David Boaz, Dinesh D’Souza, Doug Casey, Larry Elder, Kennedy, Steve Forbes, Michael Medved, Grover Norquist, John Stossel, John Fund, George Gilder.

There are about five or ten times that many in the program. And we usually get surprise speakers like Trump in 2015. A lot of people who are on Fox News are there. It is mainly a small L libertarian crowd. It includes a libertarian film festival.

It has become a reunion for me. Some of my readers go. I have shared the stage with many speakers on panels and such. They have an exhibit area and I tend to get into long discussions with many of the people manning the booths.

Exhibitors include The Atlas Society, gold sellers, financially interesting countries like Belize, Foundation for Economic Education, Reason magazine, Cato Institute, Institute of Justice, Libertarian Party, Manhattan Institute, Republican Liberty Caucus.

John Stossel has taped one of his TV shows there each year. There is a big celebratory dinner on Saturday night.

The main thing if you have libertarian tendencies is for once you do not feel like the Lone Ranger. You are surrounded by like-minded thinkers. One year, my wife and I never left the hotel. Events start with breakfast and run until about nine or ten at night and that year we were booked for every lunch and dinner as well. Most years, we manage to visit some other favorite venues like Joe’s Prime Steaks, Caesers Palace Forum Shops.

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