On Wednesday, October 4 the Iowa State Economics Club hosted the Kerry and Linda Killinger Foundation Lecture on Economic Fragility in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union on the Iowa State University campus. Participants in the roundtable discussion included James Paulsen, (retired) chief investment strategist, Wells Fargo and Leuthold Group, Kartik Athreya, executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Dame DeAnne Julius, a former member of the UK Monetary Policy Committee and past chairperson and now Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and Kerry Killinger, founder and chief executive officer of Crescent Capital Associates.
The theme of the discussion was Financial Fragility: The Future of Inflation, Interest Rates, and Banking, and participants answered questions about bank failures, European fiscal policy, the Great Recession, and Federal Reserve discretionary policies. A recording of the lecture is available here.
From left: Raven Kinnetz, Kerry Killinger, James Paulsen, Kartik Athreya, DeAnne Julius
From left: DeAnne Julius, Kerry Killinger
From left: Raven Kinnetz, Kerry Killinger, James Paulsen, Kartik Athreya, DeAnne Julius