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The USA Financial Crisis - Problems and Solutions
From Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs   
Panelists:  Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve; former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow for Federal Budgetary Affairs, Heritage Foundation; former Staff Analyst for Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson; Diane Lim Rogers, Chief Economist at the Concord Coalition; former Chief Economist for the House Budget Committee; Eugene Steuerle, Vice President, The Peterson Foundation; former Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute; and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis


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(Mar 27, 2009 at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  Sponsored by the Policy Research Institute for the Region)

The Policy Research Institute for the Region presents a half-day session to discuss the multi-pronged financial problems facing our region and our country.

The presentation will be made by representatives from the Concord Coalition. The Coalition is a bipartisan political advocacy group that was formed in 1992 and is currently conducting its “Wake-Up Tour” – the intent of which is to promote a balanced budget. The Coalition is represented by fiscal experts from the Peterson Foundation, the Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institution.

In addition to their presentation, there will be ample time to question their thesis and to engage in other discussions concerning the current and future financial problems.

In the view of the Coalition, the key short-term challenges facing the President and our nation are:

  • Stabilizing our financial markets to ensure an ample and affordable supply of credit
  • Reducing the severity and duration of the current recession
  • Getting Americans back to work
  • Constructing a budget that deals with two critical long-range challenges - controlling the grow of health care costs and putting social security on a financially sustainable path
  • Reforming our tax system to make it more efficient, fairer, and simpler and raising adequate revenues while maintaining economic growth