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Debate: Crypto or Currency?
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Jack Solowey

Jack Solowey

Policy Analyst, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

Biography

Jack Solowey is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives (CMFA), where he focuses on the regulation of cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, and financial technology. His writing has appeared in RealClearMarkets, CoinDesk, the New York Daily News, and others.

Before joining Cato’s CMFA, Solowey was an attorney in private practice in the global privacy and cybersecurity group at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. He previously was a research intern at Cato in 2012.

Solowey received his JD from New York University School of Law, where he was awarded the Flora S. and Jacob L. Newman Prize for his note on digital currencies. In law school, Solowey served as managing editor of the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty and as a judicial intern for Justice Robert J. Miller of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department. He received a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Doug Bandow

Doug Bandow

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Biography

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Times. Bandow speaks frequently at academic conferences, on college campuses, and to business groups. Bandow has been a regular commentator on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He holds a J.D. from Stanford University.



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Bob Barr

Bob Barr

President and CEO, Liberty Strategies LLC

Biography

Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, and now practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, where he serves as chairman of the state’s Judicial Qualifications Commission. Bob also chairs Liberty Guard, Inc. a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting individual liberty. He also heads a consulting firm, Liberty Strategies, Inc., and is a registered Mediator and Arbitrator. Bob has taught constitutional law at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School and government at Kennesaw State University.

Bob is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Rifle Association, and serves on the Board of the Interactive College of Technology. He is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.

From 2003 to 2008, Bob occupied the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union. He served as a member of The Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security, and from 2003 to 2005 was a member of a project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government addressing matters of privacy and security.  Barr has served as an advisory board member for Privacy International, headquartered in London, and was labeled “Mr. Privacy” by former New York Times columnist William Safire. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President in 2008.

Bob has appeared on virtually every major cable and network television program dealing with public policy matters.  He writes regularly for Townhall.com, The Daily Caller, and The Marietta Daily Journal, and has been a columnist and blogger for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He writes occasional pieces for other publications and hosts a regular podcast, “Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe.”  He is the author of three books: “The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,” “Patriot Nation: Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe Volume One,” and “Lessons in Liberty.”

Bob was appointed by President Reagan as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation from 1990-91, and was an official with the CIA from 1971-78.  Additionally, he has served as a member of U.S. delegations at several United Nations conferences on firearms.

Bob Barr was awarded his law degree from Georgetown University, his master’s degree from The George Washington University, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California. He and his wife Jeri live in Smyrna, Georgia just outside Atlanta.

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