Fixing Finance: Reactions and Over-Reactions
Watch experts examine steps taken to regulate financial markets and debate whether more should be done or if some actions should be...
Speakers: Peter R. Fisher, Managing Director, BlackRock
David S. Scharfstein, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, Harvard Business School
Benn Steil, Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Alan S. Murray, Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor, Online, Wall Street Journal
May 12, 2009
This session was part of the Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Financial Turbulence and U.S. Power, which was made possible through the generous support of Stephen C. Freidheim.
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