World Economic Update

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Speakers

Stephen S. Roach

Chief Economist and Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Peter Hooper

Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist, Deutsche Bank Securities

Robert J. Shiller

Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University

Presider

Daniel K. Tarullo

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

What happened in the markets during August? Is the credit squeeze about to ease, or there is more pain to come? What impact will the financial turmoil of the last month have on the real economy? And what does thisepisode tell us about the stability (or fragility) of contemporary financial markets? This quick-hit edition of the World Economic Update will address these and related questions.

7:45 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 - 9:15 a.m. Meeting

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