Personal Life
Reed was born and raised in Pennsylvania, United States.
He has cited the 1968 event between the Czechs and the Soviets known as the "Prague Spring", as the genesis for his interest in liberty and freedom, and has referred to the Czech cause as a “flowering of liberty.” As a result of interactions with FEE in his teen years, Reed became exposed to the ideas of F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and others from the Austrian school of economics.
In 1982, he was the Republican candidate for U. S. Congress in Michigan’s 10th district.
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