Monday, March 11, 2013

The Atlantic Live — The Economic Summit-March 13-Washington DC

The “Great Recession” has prompted professors, policymakers, and pundits to take positions on the health of the U.S. economy and the cause of the crisis. Some experts believe that we are on a road to recovery, but a major question remains to be resolved: debt. While many have focused on the negative effects of our national debt, evidence shows that private debt—held by consumers and private businesses alike—may undermine our economy to an even greater degree.
With keynote speaker Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, experts will examine topics like the declining value of the dollar, the merits of deleveraging the U.S. economy through targeted policies, the possibility of new “bubbles” forming in healthcare, education, and other industries, and the road to recovery. 
The Atlantic Live
(h/t Josh Wojnilower on FaceBook in Heterodox Economics)

Highlights

9:30 am
DEBATING AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO DEBT & DEBT DEBATES: 
WHAT MATTERS AND WHAT MATTERS MORE?

CRAIG ALEXANDER
Chief Economist, TD Bank 
ROBERT KUTTNER
Co-Founder and Editor, The American Prospect
Author, Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity versus Possibility
MAYA MacGUINEAS
President, Coalition for a Responsible Federal Budget
Head, Campaign to Fix the Debt
PAUL MCCULLEY
Former Managing Director, PIMCO
Chairman, Global Society of Fellows, Global Interdependence Center
YVES SMITH 
Publisher, Naked Capitalism
moderator
EDWARD LUCE
Chief US Commentator and Columnist,  Financial Times
Author, Time to Start Thinking:  America in the Age of Descent

10:45 am
GOOD DEBT, BAD DEBT, AND REAL OPTIONS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

AMIDST THE POLITICS OF AUSTERITY
WILLIAM GREIDER
National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation
MICHAEL HUDSON
Research Professor of Economics, University of Missouri
Research Associate, Levy Institute, Bard College
President, Institute for the Study of Long Term Economic Trends
STEVE KEEN
Professor of Economics & Finance, University of West Sydney
Publisher of Debunking Economics and Debtwatch
MONICA MEHTA
Author, The Entrepreneurial Instinct
SHERLE R. SCHWENNINGER
Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation
moderator
DEREK THOMPSON
Senior Editor, Business, The Atlantic

2 comments:

Matt Franko said...

I dont see the 'Question & Answer' part on the Agenda????

Do they have a Q&A does anyone know?

Maybe I would go if there is a chance I could ask question(s), otherwise it looks like it would just be a propaganda fest by debt morons...

rsp,

Art said...

Whoa, McCulley's hirsute evolution has gone to extremes! (Check out his head shot.)