US Economic Leadership — Is it at Risk?

On February 26, 2014, the Richman center hosted a Public Lecture Series on " US Economic Leadership- Is it at Risk? " featuring Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School and moderated by Edmund S. Phelps, 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, McVickar Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University.

From Rome to Spain to Japan, policy mistakes on currencies, immigration, regulation, government oversight and intervention and other key issues, have had devastating impacts on nations and their people. What are our policy makers doing right and wrong? What are they avoiding that they should be doing? How can we avoid repeating history? This lecture will look at current economic policies and policy decisions our leaders should be making.

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After 1970, debt has increased since the fall of Bretton Woods.