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About Bradley Jansen
Bradley Jansen is the director of the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, part of the Liberty and Privacy Network, a Washington DC-based non-profit founded in 2005 to defend privacy, civil liberties and market economics. He is an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Previously at the Free Congress Foundation, Jansen safeguarded privacy and other Constitutional liberties including testifying before Congress on the USA PATRIOT Act proposal, National ID, and other issues. While working for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, he initiated and lead opposition to the "Know Your Customer" proposal. Jansen holds a B.A. in International Studies from Miami University (Ohio), learned Spanish at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and with advanced studies in economic history at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile) and law and economics at George Mason University School of Law. He is a columnist with The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post and Nolan Chart.
Inflation & Deflation

Inflation Getting Noticed

Bradley Jansen/February 11, 2014June 19, 2022

Free banking proponents often criticize central banking, rightly, for its poor track record maintaining the purchasing power of the monetary unit.  That is, we suffer from inflation under central banking.  Despite our criticisms, there remains a lot of confusion (equating the Consumer Price Index–or one of them at…

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Commodity Money

Gold Standard Now Gives Schuler Mad Props

Bradley Jansen/February 7, 2014June 19, 2022

Our friend and colleague Ralph Benko gave freebanking.org blogger Kurt Schuler mad props (do the kids still say that?) over on the Gold Standard Now site "Lenin on Keynes: "more striking … than any … Communist revolutionary."  He raises the question, was this quotation attributed to Lenin authentic…

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Digital Money

Library of Congress Looks at Bitcoin in 40 Countries

Bradley Jansen/February 5, 2014June 19, 2022

The foreign law specialists and analysts at the Library of Congress have issues a new report on bitcoin, "Regulation of Bitcoin in Selected Jurisdictions."  Thanks to their blog In Custodia Legis for pointing it out to me. The report itself is available here: http://www.loc.gov/law/help/bitcoin-survey/2014-010233%20Compiled%20Report_.pdf?loclr=bloglaw The 25 page…

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Economic History, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Just Say No to the JFK Fed Conspiracy

Bradley Jansen/November 19, 2013June 19, 2022

President Kennedy was not assassinated for being anti-Fed.  I don't know how much more clearly that can be said.  His death on November 22nd, 1963 was a sad tragedy, but it had nothing to do with any stupid and baseless Executive Order silver certificate conspiracy. Baseless conspiracy…

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Economic Thought, Free Banking

Jansen on Voluntary Virtues Show

Bradley Jansen/October 14, 2013June 19, 2022

Yours truly was a guest on an internet show tonight on the Fed and central banking. Mike Shanklin is an independent freedom advocate and founder of VoluntaryVirtues.com, a website dedicated towards advancing free markets, property rights, and individual freedom. Voluntary Virtues advances freedom through educational interviews, narration…

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