Join EmpowerU Managing Board Member Dan Regenold in a follow up class to last semester's lively discussion on Is the U.S. the next Greece. Dan looks at the great Economist and Noble Laureate Milton Friedman, perhaps the first libertarian. Friedman's approach to economic policy in the face of different views caused a revolution when he published Capitalism and Freedom in 1962 (sold over 500,000 copies). Friedman's simple thesis: There cannot be political freedom without economic freedom.
Many of Friedman's ideas are still on the public wish list. The flat tax, the floating exchange rate, school voucher programs, free trade. Friedman's influence extends far beyond his original book and the class will also venture Friedman's other popular treatise Free to Choose. Free to Choose is based on themes of human freedom, economic freedom and equity and what happens in an economy when these concepts are ignored.
Join Dan as he discusses Friedman's work and puts it into simple context. Enjoy the incredible video content with much of the class in Friedman's own words. This is a hands on class--be ready to work as EmpowerU analyzes the economics of Milton Friedman and if it is still relevant today.
Biography
Dan Regenold, first became active in Government in 2003 when he became involved fighting Eminent Domain and helping stop it in Evendale and in Norwood, Ohio. In 2006, he was one of the founders of WeDemandAVote.com which successfully fought and stopped, by ballot initiative, a sales tax increase in Hamilton County, Ohio. Later WeDemand stopped Red Light Cameras in Hamilton County.
Regenold spoke at the CPAC Convention in 2008 to discuss major Grassroots initiative actions across the United States. In 2010 Regenold was of three leaders of the initiative to End Ohio's Estate Tax which happened in 2011. The Tax Foundation called the repeal of Ohio Estate Tax one of the most important Tax accomplishments of 2011.
In 2011 Regenold founded EmpowerUOhio.org (now in it's 11th semester), a Free University offered in the Greater Cincinnati area with the gold of "empowering" citizens.
In 2014 Regenold assembled a Citizens Advisory Board that carefully studied the proposed Union Terminal-Music Hall Sales Tax Increase. The Board and Commissioners voted to Board suggestions saving taxpayers $130 million.
Dan Regenold is the CEO of picture frame manufacturing business Frame USA, Inc (FrameUSA.com) which manufactures American Made Picture Frames and employs 75 in Springdale, Ohio. He is passionate about the arts and charitable endeavors. Regenold and his wife Becky live in Glendale, Ohio.
