THE SABRIN CENTER FOR FREE ENTERPRISE
and Anisfield School of Business present:

THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS:
“A 10-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE”

A SYMPOSIUM:
Why it happened, how it happened, could it happen again?

Tuesday, September 25, 7-9 p.m. | Trustees Pavilion
Co-moderated by Murray Sabrin, Professor of Finance and
Charles Steindel, Resident Scholar, Anisfield School of Business

Please RSVP to msabrin@ramapo.edu or call 201.684.7373.

PANELISTS:

Alan Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also Vice Chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network, and a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Blinder served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1994 until January 1996. In this position, he represented the Fed at various international meetings, and was a member of the Board’s committees on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments.

Christine Cumming retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in June 2015, having served as first vice president, the organization’s second-ranking officer and also its chief operating officer, since 2004. In over 36 years at the bank, Cumming held numerous leadership positions and played a strategic role in various Federal Reserve System initiatives. She is currently adjunct senior research scholar in the faculty of international and public affairs; adjunct professor of international and public affairs, Columbia University

Patricia C. Mosser is a Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Initiative on Central Banking and Financial Policy. Previously, she was head of the Research and Analysis Center at the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury Department. Mosser spent over 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she was a senior manager at the Fed’s open market desk overseeing market analysis, monetary policy implementation including many crisis-related facilities, foreign exchange operations, and analysis of financial stability and reform.

Joseph T. Salerno is a professor of economics in the Finance and Graduate Economics Department in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York City. He is the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute where he holds the Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics. Salerno is a research associate of the Foundations of the Market Economy in the economics department at New York University and is on the Board of Editors of five academic journals. His latest book, The Fed at One Hundred: A Critical View on the Federal Reserve System, was co-edited with David Howden (Springer 2014). He is the author of Money: Sound and Unsound (Mises Institute 2010).

Richard Sylla is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, where from 1990 to 2015 he was Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Cliometric Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Sylla is a former editor of The Journal of Economic History. Currently, he serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate museum located at 48 Wall Street in New York.

This event has been made possible by a grant from the Charles Koch Institute, the Ramapo College Foundation and supported by the Sabrin Center for Free Enterprise.