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CITY
JOURNAL and NATIONAL AFFAIRS
INVITE
YOU TO A BREAKFAST FORUM
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 2010
8:00
AM–9:30 AM
NATIONAL
PRESS CLUB
SPEAKER:
Nicole
Gelinas
Senior
Fellow , Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor,
City Journal
AUTHOR
OF:
AFTER
THE FALL:
Saving
Capitalism From Wall Street—and Washington (Encounter Books,
2009)
RESPONDENT:
Gerald
O’Driscoll, Senior Fellow,
Cato Institute
INTRODUCTORY
REMARKS:
Yuval
Levin, Editor, National Affairs
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President Obama has made the economy one of his top
priorities for 2010. He began the New Year with proposals
that he believes will prevent future financial crises.
But will his plans—which include prohibiting
banks from in-house trading and imposing a new tax
on large financial firms—really work?
Nicole Gelinas, a Manhattan Institute senior fellow
and the author of the new book After the Fall:
Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington ,
thinks not. She offers a sensible, straightforward
alternative that would allow financial firms to fail
without threatening the rest of the economy. Nicole
will be joined by Gerald O’Driscoll, a senior
fellow at Cato Institute and the former vice president
and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas.
“When it comes our flawed financial system .
. . Nicole Gelinas . . . sends a precision missile
that neatly and elegantly takes the thing to pieces—and
lays the ground for a better structure.” —
Amity Shlaes
“Nicole Gelinas has done the country a great
favor by explaining concisely and cogently the origins
of the financial crisis of 2008 and how—if we
have the political will—we can avoid a repeat
in the future.” — John Steele Gordon
“One of the best analyses I’ve read on
the causes of the 2008 financial meltdown is by Nicole
Gelinas.” — Morton Kondrake
City Journal is a quarterly magazine of culture,
policy, and urban affairs, published by the Manhattan
Institute.
National Affairs is a quarterly journal of
essays about domestic policy, political economy, society,
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