About the Association

The Free Market Monetary Education Association was organized in Kansas in October 2006. The group is a Kansas not-for-profit corporation. The nature of the business entity is "...to provide education in the practical aspects of free markets, finance, monetary policy, and information systems."

The Chairman of the Board of Directors is Jim Davidson. Raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Jim was valedictory speaker at his high school commencement. He attended Columbia College of Columbia University as a National Merit Scholar, John Jay Scholar, and Kansas Scholar. In 1985, he received a bachelor's degree in history from Columbia. While in New York, he worked in the banking industry as weekend shift supervisor for a lockbox operation handling about forty-five million dollars a week and managing a crew of twelve. In 1987 he received a master of business administration from Rice University's Jesse Jones Graduate School of Administration. Since then he has worked in aerospace, real estate, finance, marketing, and management consulting.

"Can the law -- which necessarily requires the use of force -- rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right... Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use if his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat again: These two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free."

-- Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1850

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