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Avik Roy

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Avik Roy

@Avik

Co-Founder & Chairman @FREOPP. Chief Strategy Officer @Strive $ASST $SATA. @Forbes @BitcoinPolicy @AspenAGLN @BPC_Bipartisan et al. Pronounced “OH-vick.”

Austin, TX

Joined June 2009

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Avik Roy
@Avik
May 6
New @FREOPP: Our paper on how to end the cycle of tuition hikes and student loan bailouts, and actually reduce the cost of higher education, building on reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
FREOPP
@FREOPP
May 6
Taxpayers spend $150 billion per year on student financial aid. A quarter of that debt will never be repaid, and it's taxpayers rather than the colleges who will absorb the loss. @Avik and @JustinWStapley outline how Congress can implement accountability: freopp.org/whitepapers/hi…
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Avik Roy
@Avik
Sep 13, 2020
So @YouTube just took down a June 23 interview that Scott Atlas (@SWAtlasHoover) did with his employer, Stanford's @HooverInst, because it "contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities' medical information about COVID-19."
The Doctor Is In: Scott Atlas And The Efficacy Of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, And Closings
From hoover.org
Avik Roy
@Avik
Mar 4, 2025
David Kelly of @JPMorganAM: "The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine."
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Avik Roy
@Avik
Sep 13, 2020
Replying to @Avik
Antitrust jurisprudence and regulation in the U.S. needs to be modernized on many fronts, especially to tackle the problem of multinational technology companies that attempt to impose a monopoly on information.
Avik Roy
@Avik
Apr 15, 2022
According to my sources, the SEC/DOJ "investigation" of @elonmusk is timed to thwart his bid for @twitter. Normally, in the absence of a better offer, Twitter's board is effectively obligated by its fiduciary duty to shareholders to accept Musk's offer. If true, it's scandalous.
Charles Gasparino
@CGasparino
Apr 14, 2022
BREAKING: As @elonmusk offers to buy the rest of @twitter a legal source tells @FoxBusiness @SECGov and @TheJusticeDept have launched what he described as a "joint investigation" into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving @Tesla wsj.com/articles/elon-…
Avik Roy
@Avik
Sep 18, 2025
Guys, it was literally *June 2024* when the Supreme Court ruled that it was ok for the Biden Administration to pressure tech platforms to censor COVID lockdown skeptics. No one tweeting today about the “dire threats to free speech” had anything to say about it.
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Avik Roy
@Avik
Apr 15, 2020
Under the CARES Act, hospitals get paid 15% more by Medicare if they classify their patients as having “a principal or secondary diagnosis of COVID-19.” Get ready for every hospital in America to pass off everyday coughing as “suspected COVID-19.” x.com/ExitPlannerGuy… #Covid19
Enigma
@ConservativeMMT
Apr 14, 2020
Replying to @justin_hart and @KHerriage
It's simple. CARES act pays 15% more for COVID issues. Section 4409
Avik Roy
@Avik
Jun 26, 2020
If you want to understand what's going on with #COVID19 right now, the best place to look is Florida, because they do the best job of anyone in terms of data transparency. Note the different age distributions of cases, hospitalizations, & deaths in their regular report.
Avik Roy
@Avik
Feb 27, 2024
Replying to @ClayTravis
Um speak for yourself
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Avik Roy
@Avik
Aug 18, 2021
"I'm getting sick an tired of hearing about morality, our moral obligation...the U.S. has no obligation to evacuate 1—or 100,001—South Vietnamese." —Sen. Joe Biden, 1975
Opinion | The Translators Biden Left Behind
From wsj.com
Avik Roy
@Avik
Jan 10, 2021
Plenty of people (myself included) have been the subject of violent threats on Twitter, and yet, strangely, @twitter remains available on the Apple App Store.
NPR
@NPR
Jan 10, 2021
NEW: Apple has suspended social media app Parler from its app store. Apple said it had “continued to find direct threats of violence and calls to incite lawless action” in violation of its rules. Apple says Parler is suspended “until they resolve these issues.”
Avik Roy
@Avik
Sep 2, 2025
The old anti-immigration line was “immigrants were lazy moochers enrolling in welfare programs.” The new anti-immigration line is “immigrants work too hard and make too much money.”
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Sep 1, 2025
America does not need more visas for people from India. Perhaps no form of legal immigration has so displaced American workers as those from India. Enough already. We’re full. Let’s finally put our own people first.
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Avik Roy
@Avik
Jan 12, 2021
Time to take @facebook off the Apple App Store.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Jan 11, 2021
Replying to @ggreenwald
Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? Zero. The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start.
Avik Roy
@Avik
May 15, 2020
I would love for someone to explain to me why beaches need to be closed while the NYC Subway is open.
Florida man beats Covid, for now
From politico.com