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Dr Mier G. Kohn

The Ethan Allen Institute presents
Sheraton Economic Series 2010

Regulating the Banks:
Lessons from the Recent Crisis

featuring Dr. Meir G. Kohn
Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

Sheraton Burlington – Emerald Ballroom
Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:00-7:00 pm

An internationally known expert in finance, markets, banking and regulation, Prof. Kohn will autopsy the bodies left from the “Crash of 2008” and answer questions from the audience. His presentation is part of the ongoing Sheraton Economic Series.

Prof. Kohn will also address the regulatory proposals currently before Congress, and look ahead to what those changes are likely to mean for financial markets, banks, brokerages, and the economy as a whole.

Prof. Kohn is the author of three textbooks on financial economics and has taught at Dartmouth College since 1979. He serves on the Academic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and has been a consultant to the World Bank, Hebrew University, Bell Communications Research, and the RAND Corporation.

Prof. Kohn was born in the present Czech Republic, raised in the United Kingdom, and educated in Israel and the United States. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and his PhD at MIT.

“An excellent speaker on a crucial economic issue.” – Dr. James F. Gatti, Professor of Finance, UVM College of Business

The Sheraton Economic Series is sponsored by the Ethan Allen Institute, hoisted by the Sheraton Burlington Conference Center, and cosponsored by the Vermont Economy Newsletter, Vermont Business Magazine, Vermont Tiger, and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Reservations not necessary – no admission charge

Trillions in debt in Washington!  Falling tax revenues and soaring deficits in Montpelier!  Big government spending more and growing bigger with no end in sight!  Your dollar is worth less and the economy is struggling!  Jobs are scarce and our future uncertain!

Why? What happened? How can we fix this?  Join the Vermont Campaign for Liberty and Vermonters for Economic Health as they discuss why:

WE CAN’T AFFORD IT!!!!

A two hour forum about Vermont’s and America’s budgetary crisis and how average Vermonters can join the fight to fix it.

Its open to the public, so join the discussion.

Tour dates below…

March 25, 2010
Springfield Savings and Loan Building
85 Main Street, Springfield, VT
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

March 28, 2010
East Haven School/Community Building
Community Building Road, East Haven, VT
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

April 3, 2010
Brattleboro Library
Main Street, Brattleboro, VT
10:00 am to 1 pm

April 5, 2010
Town Hall
Route 4, Woodstock VT
6 pm to 8 pm

April 8, 2010
Bennington Library
101 Silver Street, Bennington, VT
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

April 10, 2010
City Hall
39 Main Street, Montpelier, VT
1:00 pm to 3 pm

April 11, 2010
Fletcher Free Library
College Street, Burlington, VT
12 pm to 2 pm 235

April 11, 2010
Colchester, VT time and place to be determined later.

Come celebrate with like minded Vermonters on April 24th at the Orchid in South Burlington at the Vermont Libertarian Party state convention.

When: April 24, 2010, starts at 11:30 a.m. (sign in starts at 11 a.m.)

Where: Orchid Restaurant, located at: 5 Market Street, South Burlington, VT 05403, Tel: (802) 658-3626. See map below.  Click map to get directions from your location.

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Cost: $10.00 per person, paid in advance of the convention to the VTLP (includes meal and hot tea, other drinks are extra.

For more info contact: Jeremy Ryan, chair@vtlp.org, (802) 735-2149.

Current Schedule:

MORNING SESSION

• 11:00 a.m. Sign in Opens
• 11:30 a.m. Party Business- Chair’s Welcome
  - Nomination of Delegates to the National Convention
  - Adoption of VTLP 2010 Platform (current platform)
  - Member/ Candidates Presentations
  - Other party business
• 12:30 p.m. Break

AFTERNOON SESSION

• 12:30 p.m. Luncheon
• 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. (group discussion & possible speakers)
• 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Social Hour

Registration:

Seating for meeting/lunch is by registration only. You may register by clicking the link below or by calling (802) 735-2149 or emailing chair@vtlp.org.

REGISTER NOW

Upcoming appearance in Vermont…

EVENT SPEAKER: John Tommasi

(http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Speakers&bio=240

EVENT TITLE: Presentation to Champlain College SSDP

SPONSORING CLUB: Champlain College SSDP

EVENT TYPE: presentation

EVENT DESCRIPTION/DETAILS: SSDP is new at this school. John will present on his experiences and focus on the economic angles as to why the drug war has failed and needs to be replaced with legalization. 40-45 minutes presentation followed by 15-20 minutes Q&A

EVENT LOCATION/DETAILS: Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, South Willard Street, Burlington, VT – Parking is free on the weekends; closest parking lot is behind Bader Hall. Alumni Auditorium is #27 on this maphttp://www.champlain.edu/Documents/about_champlain/Campus-Map.pdf

EVENT DATE/TIME: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 2:00-3:00pm

EVENT COST to ATTENDEES: none

EVENT CONTACT NAME(S), POSITION, PH#, EMAIL: Eric Geller, eric.geller@mymail.champlain.edu, 603-759-8575 DAY OF EVENT EMERGENCY NUMBER: 603-759-8575

APPROXIMATE ATTENDANCE: unknown EQUIPMENT NEEDED: projector and screen EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE: projector and screen.

MORE ON LEAP:

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is an organization comprised of cops, judges, prosecutors, prison wardens and others within the criminal justice community who have fought on the front lines of the War on Drugs but have come to believe that the War on Drugs is a colossal public policy failure. LEAP believes that America will never be ‘drug-free’ and that in order to keep our children safe and make our communities safer, we must consider alternatives. LEAP calls for a dramatic and completely different direction: America must end prohibition and replace it with real control over the manufacture and distribution of all drugs. LEAP believes prohibition must be replaced with regulation and some form of legalization.

LEAP is absolutely not pro-drug. LEAP wants drugs to be less available to children and more restrictive to adults, and LEAP wants to reduce crime and violence in our communities. Our cops know that it’s not the drugs themselves that cause these problems, but the illegal drug marketplace.

Lions, Kiwanis, and Rotary Clubs, prestigious universities, political groups from both the left and the right have all hosted LEAP speakers and provided almost entirely positive feedback. In 2009, LEAP has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist and on CNN and MSNBC. In fact just today, three of our speakers were featured on the NYT web site here: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/a-new-course-on-medical-marijuana/

Upcoming event of interest to Vermont Libertarians…

Liberal, Libertarian Economists to Debate Merits of Stimulus Package

Start: 10/05/2009 – 4:00pm

Description:

Was the $787 billion federal stimulus package an enlightened act of government intervention that averted economic catastrophe or a colossal waste of taxpayer money that has done more harm than good?

That provocative question will be the subject of the latest installment in UVM’s Janus Forum, a popular debate series now in its second year that matches prominent thinkers with opposing views on important social issues.

The debate, titled “$787 Billion: Stimulus or Sedative,” will take place Monday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. in the Davis Center’s Grand Maple Ballroom. The approximately 60-minute debate, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer period.

Arguing for the benefits of the stimulus will be Justin Wolfers, associate professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Arguing against will be Jeffrey Miron, senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

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