Posts in "Wake Forest University YAL"

By Elliot Engstrom at 7:58AM

Apr 9, 2010

Wake YAL Talks about the Fed and Kittens

I gave a talk at the April 8 meeting of Wake YAL on the Federal Reserve entitled "A Case Against the Federal Reserve," of which the video is posted below. My goal was to simply lay out two base arguments against the Federal Reserve -- that it is a root cause of the disastrous boom-bust cycle, and that it is antithetical to freedom. I finished up the talk with a brief question and answer session. I definitely am a writer, and not a public speaker, so please excuse my natural goofiness and erratic train of thought. I've divided the talk up into three short parts for convenience's sake.

Part 1 - Origins of the Fed, Boom-Bust Cycle:

S4L Nominates YAL for Event of the Year

Two YAL chapter events have been nominated by Students for Liberty for their 2010 Liberty Awards. Check out the descriptions below, and click through on the link above to see the competition!

University of New Hampshire: Young Americans for Liberty

Remember, remember, the 5th of November. The week of November 5th was the 1st annual UNH Revolution Week, hosted by Young Americans for Liberty. Every day from November 2nd through November 6th, they held a pro-liberty event open to the campus community. On Monday they screened “America: Freedom to Fascism” by Aaron Russo. On Wednesday they screened “Why We Fight”. On Thursday they held an anti-war protest followed by a screening of “V for Vendetta”. Then on Friday they hosted the New York Times best-selling author Tom Woods. To close out the week they attended the 2009 Northeast Students for Liberty Conference at Harvard University