Wednesday, May 27th – Dr. Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations will talk about his book “Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Policy”
One of the leading writers and thinkers on American foreign policy, Leslie Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.  In “Power [...]

Tuesday, June 2nd – Professor Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini is a professor of economics at New York University and chairman of RGE Monitor, an economic consultancy firm.  
In September, 2006, Roubini said an economic crisis was brewing in which the United States ‘was likely to face a once-in-a lifetime housing bust, an oil shock, sharply declining consumer confidence [...]

Tuesday, May 12th  – The Honorable Pierre Vimont, French Ambassador to the US to discuss:
  “The Economic Recession: A French and European Perspective.”
Ambassador Vimont was appointed Ambassador to the United States by President Sarkozy in August 2007 after serving as a member of the French Foreign Servic e since 1977.  Mr. Vimont has held several [...]

Eliot Spitzer wants to know if the bailout of AIG was an inside deal among
Goldman Sachs, the Treasury, and the Fed. Edward Jay Epstein, who has been
unraveling conspiracy theories since the Warren Commission, examines the
evidence. 

The Obama Administration’s $500 billion or more proposal to deal with America’s ailing banks has been described by some in the financial markets as a win-win-win proposal.  Actually, it is a win-win-lose proposal: the banks win, investors win — and taxpayers lose…(to NYTimes link)