by Gary Alexander
May 28, 2025
On Memorial Day, we honor those brave Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country, preserving freedom for those of us fortunate enough to live in this great country.
As we approach the 4th of July, there is also an oft-forgotten June opportunity to honor America called Flag Day (born on June 14, 1777), and one way to honor America this Flag Day is to join 175-speakers and perhaps 2,000-attendees at Freedom Fest, held this year in Palm Springs, California, on June 11-14.
This year, I will miss “the world’s largest gathering of free minds” (Washington Post) for only the second time since its founding in 2007, as I’m finally surrendering to the travails of travel, but I notice that our mentor, Louis Navellier, will moderate a panel on Gold’s 2025-bull run: “Golden Opportunity or Fool’s Gold? ” That will be worth seeing. Here are a few other recommended other panels worth attending: *
- “Global Economic Summit: The Future of Global Markets,” with Mark Skousen, Steve Forbes, Art Laffer, Barbara Kolm (from Austria) and Helen Raleigh (from China).
- “The Grand “D” Debate: Debts and Deficits: Are they a Danger or a Delusion? with Grover Norquist, Art Laffer, John Tamny, Rob Arnott and Alexander Green.
- “How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis,” with Steve Forbes, John Fund, Grover Norquist and Peter Schiff.
- “Big Pharma on Trial” – a real-life courtroom drama putting Big Pharma in the docket, along with a judge, jury, prosecutor, defense counsel and witnesses, giving equal time to both sides.
- “Tariffs, Sanctions or Open Markets? A New Approach to Ending Communism,” with Steve Forbes, Rainer Zitelmann and film director Tomasz Agnecki (for more on them, see below).
* For speaker biographies, please consult Wikipedia, Google Books or the Freedomfest website.
Freedom Fest features two of my top nominees for the Nobel Prize in Economics – Art Laffer for his “Laffer Curve,” devised 50 years ago, illustrating the trade-off between top tax rates and tax revenues collected, proven many times to be true, before and since, and Freedom Fest founder, Mark Skousen, for his “Structure of Production” model (1989), which forms the theoretical basis for Gross Output (GO), the new companion to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which includes all stages of production. At Freedom Fest, you can hear each economist several times on panels or speeches and perhaps meet them as well.
Some Heroes Profiled in Film…and In Person
Although I won’t be there, I’ve just previewed 24-films (and some rejects) for the Anthem Film Festival, founded and directed by Jo Ann Skousen since 2010, and in doing so I have some Heroes of Freedom to nominate. The first pair cover the alphabet from A to Z, being the Polish film maker Tomasz Agencki and the German historian, sociologist, entrepreneur and bestselling author, Dr. Rainer Zitelmann.
Last week, I wrote about their combined work in a 30-minute documentary on the rebirth of Vietnam. They also combined forces profiling a similar revival of Agencki’s formerly Communist homeland in “Poland: From Socialism to Prosperity.” Agencki also submitted an exceptional full-length biographical film about one of the most important but oft-ignored economists: “Carl Menger: Notes on the Margin.”
Dr. Zitelmann has written 30-books, translated into 30-languages, most recently and most notably The Origins of Poverty and Wealth, How Nations Escape Poverty, The Power of Capitalism, and In Defense of Capitalism. In addition to their films and panels, Zitelmann will also profile 30-nations in a breakout session on June 14, Flag Day: “The Origins of Poverty and Wealth, a Journey Across the World.”
As the pair point out in the Polish film, Poland has grown faster than any other European nation since it threw off the Communist yoke in 1989. From being poorer than an African nation like Gabon, it now has per capita income about half that of America. Much of that came from the free market policies of its first post-Communist finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz, who is as much a hero of freedom as Germany’s free-market economic genius, Ludwig Erhard, and De Gaulle’s economic right hand, Jacques Rueff.
Another modern hero at Freedom Fest is Thomas Quiter, who may ride in on a motorized wheelchair of his own design, with technical volunteer help. He is the subject of a 45-minute film, “Power Moves.” Born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta and trapped too long in his own home, but denied adequate wheel power, despite having coverage from both Medicaid and the best private insurance available, he used crowd funding to form The Mobility Independence Foundation for open-sourced accessibility technology.
Another hero at Freedom Fest is Dr. Ming Wang, subject of a new feature film, “Sight.” Born in China, his family suffered greatly during Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76) before he earned a rare chance to study overseas, becoming a world-renowned eye surgeon and entrepreneur, recognized for his groundbreaking work in laser eye surgery and contributions to advancing medical technology through his Wang Vision Institute in Nashville. This inspiring feature film “Sight” debuted a year ago, May 24, 2024, starring Terry Chen as Wang and Greg Kinnear as Ming’s surgical partner, Dr. Misha Bartnovsky. After the film’s screening, Dr. Wang will speak about his experiences in China and answer audience questions.
There are quite a few more heroes and heroines portrayed in films, but not coming to Freedom Fest. In a film called “She Rises Up,” we see three female entrepreneurs setting up businesses on three continents – in Peru, Sri Lanka and Senegal – often striving and prevailing against great resistance by government regulators, as well as local customs, while providing local employment and hope for many other women.
There are quite a few other Anthem films worth seeing, but not enough room to describe them in detail:
- Dirty Coin: The unexpected way Bitcoin is benefiting those who don’t even own crypto.
- Spares: A surprising new solution to infertility, giving couples new hope.
- Vietnam: The key to Vietnam’s rapidly rising economy (profiled here last week).
- Beneath Sheep’s Clothing: How Marxism has infiltrated education at all levels in America.
- Power Moves and Creativity on Trial: Open-sourcing vs. copyright protection.
- The Bird and the Bee: How a joke at the Babylon Bee led to Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
- The Fall of 2008: What caused the financial meltdown of 2008, revealing ludicrous leadership.
- Calico Rebellion: The little-known land revolution that led to the birth of the Republican Party.
- When Cops Become Robbers: The tragedy of civil asset forfeiture laws, much akin to robbery.
- Last Days of a Revolutionary: Thomas Jefferson’s final eloquent letter of June 24, 1826.
- and an unsolved mystery, solved by two outside reporters, in High Country Murder!
I won’t provide any links here, and I don’t get any referral fee, but you have two weeks until Freedom Fest starts to decide if you want to hear or see any of these inspirational leaders the week of Flag Day.
All content above represents the opinion of Gary Alexander of Navellier & Associates, Inc.
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Gary Alexander has been Senior Writer at Navellier since 2009. He edits Navellier’s weekly Marketmail and writes a weekly Growth Mail column, in which he uses market history to support the case for growth stocks. For the previous 20 years before joining Navellier, he was Senior Executive Editor at InvestorPlace Media (formerly Phillips Publishing), where he worked with several leading investment analysts, including Louis Navellier (since 1997), helping launch Louis Navellier’s Blue Chip Growth and Global Growth newsletters.
Prior to that, Gary edited Wealth Magazine and Gold Newsletter and wrote various investment research reports for Jefferson Financial in New Orleans in the 1980s. He began his financial newsletter career with KCI Communications in 1980, where he served as consulting editor for Personal Finance newsletter while serving as general manager of KCI’s Alexandria House book division. Before that, he covered the economics beat for news magazines. All content of “Growth Mail” represents the opinion of Gary Alexander
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