Global Economic Trends: The Credit Crunch: A Conversation with George Soros
Watch George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, discuss implications of the mortgage crisis for the international economic system.
Speaker: George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC; Author, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means
Presider: Sebastian Mallaby, Deputy Director of Studies, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
May 7, 2008
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