Laurie Thomas VassLaurie Thomas Vass is the General Partner of the Citizens Liberty Party. She is a regional economist and constitutional economist. She is a natural rights conservative, and the leader of a national political movement to re-connect a new constitution o the principles of individual liberty stated in the Declaration of Independence. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Masters degree in Regional Planning. She was a solo practitioner registered investment advisor for 30 years. She was cited by Peter Tanous, in The Wealth Equation, as one of the top 100 private money managers in the nation. She is the inventor and holder of a research method patent on selecting technology stocks for investment. She is the author of 10 books and over 100 scholarly articles on the Social Science Research Network author platform, and is currently ranked in the top 1.3% of over 415,000 economic authors, worldwide, on the SSRN platform. In addition to her interest in economics, she also has an interest in North Carolina history and public policy issues. Many of her articles and books about North Carolina are archived in the Carolina Collection at Wilson Library at UNC. She has an interest in the topic of entrepreneurship. One of her early economic research papers, written for the North Carolina Department of Labor, included the policy guidelines for creating what eventually became The North Carolina Council For Entrepreneurial Development. Prior to starting her investment advisory company, she was a regional economist and advisor to the Board of Directors of B. C. Hydro, and also served as an economic advisor to the N. C. Commissioner of Labor. She learned the retail stock trade as a broker, at E. F. Hutton. Read More Read Less