This is an announcement from a DelCOG that I received via email. I am going to try to go to this — it looks really interesting!
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Lecture and Panel Discussion Presented By Delaware Press Association & The Delaware Coalition for Open Government
“WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO OUR ECONOMY: The Consequences of Not Knowing”
Keynote Speaker: Michael Greenberger, Nationally renowned lawyer, professor and economic advisor
Panel Discussion followed by Q & A
Thursday, September 17, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Delaware Theatre Company
200 Water Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
Reception in the lobby after the program
Free and Open to the Public
Coordinating sponsors DelCOG and DPA cordially invite you to come to a free and informative public forum on the topic “WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO OUR ECONOMY: The Consequences of Not Knowing.” The event will be held at Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water Street, Wilmington, on Thursday, September 17, at 7:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker:
Michael Greenberger, nationally renowned lawyer, professor and expert on financial regulation
Moderator:
Ralph Begleiter, Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of Delaware and former CNN World Affairs Correspondent
Additional Panelists:
Cris Barrish, Senior Reporter, The News Journal
Alan Garfield, Professor, Widener University School of Law, specializing in Constitutional Law
The Hon. Karen Peterson, Delaware State Senator
Keynote speaker Michael Greenberger, nationally renowned lawyer, professor and economic advisor, will make sense of a chain of complex, unregulated financial deals that brought the global economy to near ruin. In plain language, Mr. Greenberger will explain how unheralded permission to conduct business without transparency unleashed a “shadow market” devoid of rules, reporting and oversight. He will explore how lack of transparency and regulation in financial institutions affects each of us and will look at rules that could reduce the risk of another economic meltdown.
An expert on financial regulation, Mr. Greenberger teaches a seminar on “Futures, Options and Derivatives” and courses on Constitutional Law at the University of Maryland School of Law. He has been technical advisor to a United Nations General Assembly Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System and director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He has testified before Congress about problems in U.S. financial markets caused by complex, unregulated financial derivatives.
Following the lecture, a panel of experts, including Mr. Greenberger, will discuss the information power struggle. The panel will take questions from the audience.
There will be a reception in the lobby following the program.
Free parking in the theatre’s lot or in the lot north of the theatre.
The program is part of an ongoing series of “We the People” events, partly funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This program is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact DelcogData@aol.com or 302-655-2175.