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2010 Economics Bloggers Forum
The Kauffman Foundation is organizing a meeting of economics bloggers. I was not able to join them, this time. I will be watching the webcast, today.
2010 Economics Bloggers Forum
Hosted by the Kauffman Foundation
8:30 a.m. Welcome by Tim Kane
8:45 a.m. Keynote Speech by David Warsh
9:30 a.m. Panel 1 – Great Recession: Impact on America’s Future?
Paul Kedrosky, Bob McTeer, Megan McArdle, and Mark Thoma
1:00 p.m. Persuasion and Norms by Paul Romer
1:30 p.m. Panel 2 – Is Growth a Mystery? Haiti, Afghanistan, Africa…-
Tim Kane, Alex Tabarrok, and Allison Schrager
2:45 p.m. Panel 3—U.S. Fiscal Mess: How Does It End?
Robert Litan, Donald Marron, Ryan Avent, Ken Houghton, and Mike Shedlock
3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks by Carl Schramm, President and CEO, Kauffman Foundation
VIEW WEBCAST at
http://sites.kauffman.org/EconBlogForum/template.cfm?page_id=1283
Webcast begins Friday March 19, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. –- 5:00 p.m. EDT
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Michael Lewis on CBS 60 Minutes: How the capitalism was almost destroyed by the capitalists in the Fall of 2008 – [VIDEO]
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Part 2:
Felix Salmon review of Michael Lewis’-s book, “-The Big Short”-.
Ron Paul -> the good… and the ugly
The Ugly:
The Good:
Economist Paul Krugman speaking at MIT about the 2007-2010 financial crisis – [VIDEO]
The United States and the European governments will default on their debt, eventually – dixit Marc Faber. [PREDICTIONS]
Singapore is the safest.
2:15 into
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Jim Rogers on commodities, the commodity bubble, gold, the gold bubble, crude oil, the crude oil bubble, China, the China bubble – etc.
The U.S. is headed for a major debt crisis -within 5 to 10 years.
Marc Faber’-s outlook for 2010…- and later: