Jeffrey A. Tucker

Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of Brownstone Institute, a nonprofit organization focusing on public health, economics, and the philosophical foundations of freedom, with a particular focus on post-pandemic rebuilding. He is also senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times where he writes a daily column.

He is the author of ten books in 5 languages, and speaker around the world on topics related to human liberty, he gave the Franz Čuhel Memorial Lecture at the Prague Conference on Political Economy, has been a two-time featured guest on John Stossel’s show, interviewed on Bitcoin Glenn Beck’s television show, spoken at Google headquarters, appeared frequently on Huffington Post Live, been the two-time Master of Ceremonies at Libertopia, been featured at FreedomFest and the International Students for Liberty Conference, the featured speaker at Liberty Forum for many years, keynoted the Young Americans for Liberty national convention, has spoken at many dozens of colleges and universities in the U.S. and the world, including Harvard University, Yale University, and Boston University, has been quoted in the New York Times and Washington Post, appears regularly in Newsweek and many other popular venues, and is in demand as a headline speaker at professional, political, technology, and financial conferences. Jeffrey has a large & loyal social media following, where he is able to promote his writing and upcoming personal appearances.

He has served as a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria, Research Affiliate for the RMIT University Blockchain Innovation Hub in Melbourne, Australia, Honorary Fellow of Mises Brazil, affiliate fellow of the Acton Institute and Mackinac Institute, founder and Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, an adviser to blockchain application companies, past editorial director of the Foundation for Economic Education, AIER, and Laissez Faire Books, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, and author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press.

He organized the event that produced and promoted the Great Barrington Declaration and the first conference in the United States on the topic apart from Bitcoin’s core development team: the Crypto-Currency Conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, in conjunction with BitPay. He speaks regularly at block chain and cryptocurrency conferences appears in documentaries on the topic, including the Netflix feature “Banking on Bitcoin.”.

Tucker had a close professional relationship with the Austrian economist Murray Rothbard for the ten years before his death, and published hundreds of books on economics, money, and banking during his publishing tenure. He then rebooted the bookseller Laissez Faire, during which time he wrote columns on finance, economic trends, and politics for Agora Financial. His next company, Liberty.me, was one of the earliest for-profit spaces to accept cryptocurrency in payment for subscriptions. Today he manages Brownstone with the goal of creating a stable sanctuary for ideas in a time of intensifying control and censorship.

Videos

Speech Topics

The Origins and Operations of the Administrative State. We like to believe we live in a representative democracy. While the forms are still there, the practical reality is that governance in the US consists mainly of edicts issued by permanent bureaucrats. Such a system is not found in the US Constitution. It was born only in 1880 and the beast grew through all the wars and economic upheaval to the point that not only do the citizens cower in the face of it but elected politicians do too. The administrative state can be curbed and must be in order to restore freedom and the founding ideals.

Life After Lockdown. Lockdowns of 2020, and the mask and vaccine mandates that followed, amount to a massive upheaval of American life with far-reaching economic, social, cultural, and political impacts. The period also gave us a glimpse into fundamental problems in US governance and corporate structures that cry out for resolution. The pandemic response achieved nothing but destruction and set terrible precedents for the future. This speech discusses 12 main areas of focus from censorship to regulatory capture.

Money, Sound and Unsound. At the onset of Covid lockdowns, the Federal Reserve completely eliminated reserve requirements for banks as part of a money-printing extravaganza that created some $6.5 trillion in new money that revealed itself in the form of rampant inflation. This inflation still runs at twice and three times the target, and threatens the dollar both domestically and internationally. Cryptocurrency is a great alternative but that too is under threat of nationalization by the idea of Central Bank Digital Currency. We need dramatic monetary reform but not this one.

The New World of Labor. The zero interest rates of 2008 and following massively distorted the production structure in America, leading to a massive bubble in media and technology companies. This ballooned management structures and unleashed “woke” philosophy in corporate culture. With the changed in policy at the Fed, higher interest rates are rebalancing these structures, resulting in a wave of labor changes at huge corporations. The future of work is in the service industries, and the idea of working remotely on six-figure salaries is becoming a thing of the past.