Bastiat Social Gathering

We are excited for a series of meetings we have coming up over the summer. Make sure you read the whole email.

First, do not miss next week's Bastiat Social. We meet on Tuesday, June 17 at 6pm at Laudy Bar. Free parking a block down, see illustration at the end of the email.

Second, we will be holding a private meeting on July 1, at 6 pm. This is an opportunity for deeper conversations in a more intimate setting. The only requirement will be the completion of a short survey which will be the basis for our conversations, and which will be sent out upon RSVP.

Location is downtown Fort Lauderdale, with the address and survey to be shared with all participants. We will limit attendance on a first-come first-served basis of people who RSVP. Please respond to this email if you would like to attend. If you respond Yes, please let us know if your plans change.

Third, we have the pleasure to announce our next speaker event! Bryan Cutsinger will speak for us on July 14, at 6 pm. This time we meet at Bar 511, at 511 NE 3rd Ave in Fort Lauderdale. We will be outside so dress accordingly. Instead of a fee for the meeting, aim to treat yourself for $30 of goodies at the bar of food truck, and they might just have us back. And consider offering our speaker a beer.

Bryan Cutsinger will talk about why the Fed got inflation wrong, and what to do about it:

In this talk, Dr. Bryan Cutsinger will take a hard look at the Federal Reserve’s response to post-pandemic inflation. Despite what Chair Jerome Powell claims, the Fed’s own policies helped fuel the surge in prices, and its new inflation strategy, known as “flexible average inflation targeting,” may have made things worse. Cutsinger will argue that inflation wasn’t driven by greedy corporations or broken supply chains—it was the result of too much money chasing too few goods. The Fed misread the situation, waited too long to act, and still hasn’t brought the price level back to where it would have been. Cutsinger will explain how the Fed’s framework failed, why it matters for everyday Americans, and what a better approach to monetary policy might look like.

About Bryan Cutsinger:

Dr. Bryan Cutsinger is an assistant professor of economics in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at the Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal Public Choice and a Sound Money Project fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Dr. Cutsinger’s research focuses on monetary theory and history and political economy. His scholarly work has been published in Economics Letters, the European Economic Review, the European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Public Choice, and the Southern Economic Journal. His popular writing has appeared in City Journal, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.