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EPS Bernard L. Schwartz Symposium: Who's Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?

  • Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave NW Washington, DC USA (map)

Who's Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?

EPS Bernard L. Schwartz Symposium

Co-sponsored by The New America Foundation

This event was broadcast live on C-SPAN 2.


Program

Welcoming Remarks: James K. Galbraith — Economists for Peace and Security

 

 

Session One: On the Cliff

Chair: Stan Collender — Qorvis' National Director of Financial Communications

  • James Galbraith — Economists for Peace and Security

  • Stephanie Kelton — University of Missouri–Kansas City

  • Chad Stone — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

  • Bruce Bartlett

 

 

Session Two: On the Military Sequester

Chair: Richard Kaufman — Bethesda Research Institute 

  • Heather Hurlburt — National Security Network 

  • Carl Conetta — Project on Defense Alternatives

  • William Hartung — Center for International Policy, Arms and Security Project

  • Winslow Wheeler — Project On Government Oversight, Straus Military Reform Project 

 

 

Session Three: Essential Priorities: Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid and Infrastructure

Chair: Michael Ettlinger — Center for American Progress

  • Michael Lind — New America Foundation, Economic Growth Program

  • Sherle Schwenninger — New America Foundation, Economic Growth and American Strategy Programs

  • Monique Morrissey — Economic Policy Institute

  • Mark Schmitt — Roosevelt Institute


Press

Fiscal Cliff? Obama Urged Not To Panic, by Dan Froomkin, for The Huffington Post

‘Fiscal Cliff’ Concerns Intensify, by Shar Adams, for The Epoch Times

Economists Look For Ways to Avoid the "Fiscal Cliff", C-SPAN video coverage


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