Beyond the Meltdown: Regulatory Reform of the Financial Sector

Demos, Essential Information, and the Consumer Education Foundation Invite You To:

BEYOND THE MELTDOWN

Regulatory Reform of the Financial Sector

Friday, January 9th, 8 am - 4 pm

Holeman Lounge

National Press Club

Washington, DC

The new presidential administration will take office against the backdrop of a deepening recession that has devastated the economic stability of our country. This crisis poses a dual challenge of epic proportion: first, the ongoing task of restoring confidence, stability and liquidity to the markets and the broader economy; second, the work of forging a new and robust regulatory framework for Wall Street and the financial system.

Please join us for a series of panels about the future of the financial sector with some of America's leading experts.

To register, contact Jinny Khanduja at 212.389.1399 or jkhanduja@demos.org, or click here.

For the full agenda, click here.

Lunch will be provided. The event will feature an interview with John C. Bogle, Founder of the Vanguard Group and President of Vanguard's Bogle Financial Markets Research Center.

Confirmed Panelists:

Robert Auerbach, University of Texas, former House Financial Services staff

Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Michael Barr, University of Michigan Law School

Jane D'Arista, Financial Markets Center

Tamara Draut, Demos

Bert Foer, American Antitrust Institute

Steve Kroll, American University

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

Miles Rapoport, Demos

Harvey Rosenfield, Consumer Education Fund

Ellen Seidman, New America Foundation

Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel AFL-CIO

Rob Weissman, Essential Information


This forum is part of the annual Charles R. Halpern Seminar on New Visions for America, named after the founder and first Board Chair of Demos. Halpern served as President of the Nathan Cummings Foundation from its founding in 1989 until 1999. In that role, he saw the need for a new institution based on the values of expanded democracy and economic fairness, which would advance new ideas, engage people of differing views, and work to change public policy at the national and state level. Since its founding in 2000, Demos has been working to fulfill this vision.