Mike ter Maat Austrian-School Economist Pro-Reform Police Officer Mike is a candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. In 2021-22, he campaigned as the LP candidate in the January special Congressional election in Florida's District 20. Mike served as a police officer in Broward County from 2010 through 2021, including serving as a field training officer for several years, all as a registered Libertarian.   Mike's prior career in finance and economics included work with banks, the White House Office of Management and Budget and international and federal agencies. He advocated for free markets on behalf of the American Bankers Association for nine years before starting a professional education and consulting business for bank executives in 2002, which he ran until 2009.   Mike has traveled in thirty-five countries, taught economics at three universities and substituted at dozens of Broward public schools. He has one wife, two children and two step-daughters, two dogs and one truck, a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from George Washington University.   www.MiketerMaat.com wwe.GoldNewDeal.org