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event website URL: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5985

start date and time: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 9:00 AM

end date and time: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM

categories:   business & financial

event description:

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The Cato Institute holds a symposium for the Shadow Open Market Committee. The committee, which held its first meeting in 1973, was founded with the objective to evaluate the policy choices of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee.

The symposium which is moderated by Gregory Hess from Claremont McKenna College will feature the following position papers:

- Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, "The Great Contraction 1929–1933: Are There Parallels to the Current Crisis?"

- Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, "The Dos and Don'ts of Financial Regulatory Reform" and "TALF and PPIP: Will they Work to Unclog the Financial Plumbing?"

- Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University, "We Need an Accord for Fed Credit Policy"

- Mickey Levy, Bank of America, "What's in Worse Shape, the Economy or Fiscal Policy?"

- Bennett McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University, "China, the U.S. Dollar, and SDRs"

- Anna Schwartz, NBER, "Boundaries Between the Fed and the Treasury"

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