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Dan Johnson

Director of North American Programs

Students For Liberty

Dan Johnson is the Director of North American Programs at Students for Liberty. With over a decade of experience in the liberty movement, Dan has founded multiple nonprofit organizations including PANDA and We Do Better, recruited and managed thousands of volunteers, advocated for or against legislation in over 40 states, and raised millions of dollars to empower people to make a difference. You can reach Dan at [email protected]

Blog Posts

Libertarian solutions to inflation

November 10, 2022
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Monetary Policy

Inflation has been the big issue of 2022. For almost everyone, the problem has become increasingly impossible to ignore. Prices are continuing to rise, the value of our savings is in decline. Inflation is effectively stealing our future. But as long as half of the country believes that it is caused by the war in Ukraine, COVID, corporate profits, or that inflation like this is new and temporary, there will never be proper solutions to inflation. At best, it will be viewed as one of those random problems we must deal with when we have a crisis. At worst, policies like price controls and other

Stop stealing our future: why inflation matters for everyone

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Monetary Policy

Up until recently, “inflation” was a buzzword known primarily to economists and a small group of libertarians. That has massively changed. Today, after record prices hit the everyday goods Americans use - food, housing, gas; everyone is familiar with the I-word.  However, Americans are struggling to understand how it happens. Is it Putin? Is it Biden and the Democrats? The Pandemic? Bad luck? In the midst of dealing with the economic consequences of inflation, Americans are confused enough about how it happens that they don’t know what to do about it.  Rarely does an opportunity