More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

Monday, June 21, 2010
Speaker
Author, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite; Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider
Chrystia Freeland
Global Editor-at-Large, Thomson Reuters

CFR's Sebastian Mallaby argues that hedge funds are an important part of the global economy because they help regulate markets, but are small enough to fail.

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