2020 Free Market Forum

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Thursday, October 8

7:00 p.m. Dinner

“Economic Issues and the Coming Election”
Stephen Moore
White House Economic Recovery Task Force

 

Friday, October 9

8:15 – 9:45 a.m. – Panel 1: “Space”
Chairman: Roger Butters, Hillsdale College

“Foreign Relations in Space”
Steven L. Kwast, USAF Lt. Gen. (ret.)

“The Promise of Space Mining”
Joel C. Sercel, Founder, Trans Astranautica Corporation

“Space Econ”
Rand Simberg, Author, Safe Is Not an Option

 

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. – Panel 2: “The Breakdown of the Family”
Chairman: Kris Mauren, Acton Institute

“The Economic Impact of Family Breakdown”
Peter Frank, Grove City College

“Fallout of the Sexual Revolution”
Deborah Savage, University of St. Thomas

“The Collapse of the Black Family”
Carol Swain, Author, Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise

 

12:00 p.m. Luncheon

 

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Panel 3: “The Economics of the Coronavirus”
Chairman: Timothy W. Caspar, Hillsdale College

“What Do the Statistics Really Tell Us?”
Jayanta Bhattacharya, Stanford University 

“The Cost of the Lockdowns”
David R. Henderson, Hoover Institution

“Medicine, Misinformation, and the Media”
James Todaro, America’s Frontline Doctors

 

7:00 p.m. Dinner

“Correcting the Progressive View of American History”
Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma

 

All Speakers Confirmed

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Saturday, October 10

8:30 a.m. Welcome
Kris Mauren, Executive Director, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

8:35 a.m. Devotional
David Durell, Chairman, George Edward Durell Foundation

9:00 a.m. – “Was Jesus a Socialist?”

Lawrence Reed, Author, Was Jesus a Socialist? Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong

10:00 a.m. – Coffee Break

10:15 a.m. – “The Regulatory State: Problems and Solutions”

Anthony L. Francois, Pacific Legal Foundation

11:00 a.m. – 2020 Mini-Grant Recipients

Resources for Free Market Forum Faculty
– Dan Churchwell, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
– Tyler Groenendal, The Fund for American Studies
– Zilvinas Silenas, Foundation for Economic Education

12:00 p.m. – Program Concludes

All Speakers Confirmed

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