Foreign Affairs Live: A Discussion of the Global Financial Crisis
Watch experts debate causes of the financial crisis and what needs to happen for the global financial markets to recover.
Speakers: Roger C. Altman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Evercore Partners; Former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
James D. Grant, Owner and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer; Author, “After the Crash: Helping the U.S. Economy Right Itself” (Foreign Affairs November/December 2008)
Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University
Presider: James F. Hoge Jr., Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs
November 24, 2008
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Watch experts debate causes of the financial crisis and what needs to happen for the global financial markets to recover.
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