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| Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee |
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Monday, May 5, 2008
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| SFRC members will issue statements and answer questions relating to topics such as the recent turmoil in financial markets and proposed remedies; mortgage foreclosure initiatives; and issues relating |
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| What Lies Beyond the Credit Crunch? Part II |
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Monday, April 28, 2008
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| The panelists will provide their assessments of the present and future of the financial markets and the economy and will identify what--if anything--policymakers should do. |
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| What Is Fair Value Accounting and Why Are People Concerned about It? |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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| Is fair value accounting being implemented in a way that creates unrealistic losses? Is it good or bad for the economy? Is there a more reasonable way to account for financial assets? |
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| The Deflating Mortgage and Housing Bubble, Part III: What Next? |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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| Are we nearing the end of the bust? What is next—financially, economically, and politically? These and related questions will be discussed at this event. |
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| Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Pose a Risk to the United States? |
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Monday, February 25, 2008
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| In the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis, a number of the largest U.S. banks have turned to sovereign wealth funds--the investment arm of cash-rich foreign governments--for large capital infusions |
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| The Second Report of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation |
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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| Speakers at this conference will review the findings in the committee’s new report and consider the possible causes of the U.S. public securities markets’ relative decline. |
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| Reforming the Regulation of Financial Services |
| A Luncheon Address by Steve Bartlett |
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Monday, January 28, 2008
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| The Financial Services Roundtable has analyzed the submissions to Treasury and compared them to its own Blueprint. Steve Bartlett will outline the conclusions of this study. |
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| Will an Optional Federal Charter for Insurers Increase International Insurance Competition? |
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
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| Commissioners (NAIC)--can make binding commitments about U.S. regulatory policies. Are these obstacles depriving U.S. consumers of the benefits of international competition? If so, can they be |
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| What Lies Beyond the Credit Crunch? |
| Five AEI Economists Assess the Present and the Future of the Financial Markets |
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Monday, December 17, 2007
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| Need the current problems in the financial markets cause a collapse of credit resulting in a severe economic decline? Five AEI economists will discuss and make policy recommendations. |
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| A Lunch Address by James Lockhart |
| Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight |
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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| At this event, OFHEO director James Lockhart will provide the latest information on the condition of the GSEs and the prospects for legislation. |
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| Total Records: 164 |
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