FREE MARKET FORUM

• “Free Economies and the Common Good”
  Rev. Robert A. Sirico
  
  
  Panel 1:  The Rise of the U.S. to Economic Superpower
  
  
• “Market Conditions in the Late 19th Century”
  P.J. Hill
• “Failure as an Element of Entrepreneurial Success”
  Larry Schweikart
• “Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency”
  Lawrence W. Reed
  
  
  Panel 2:  The Great Depression and the New Deal
  
  
• “What Got Us Into and Out of the Great Depression”
  Robert Higgs
• “The New Deal: Reputation and Reality”
  Jim Couch
• “FDR and the IRS”
  Burton Folsom
  
  
• “Progressivism's Critique of Free Markets”
  Richard Epstein
  
  
  Panel 3:  The Role of the Federal Reserve
  
  
• “The Evolution of Thinking About Federal Reserve Monetary Policy”
  Edward Gramlich
• “How the Fed Works Today”
  Robert Barro
• “The Free Banking Alternative”
  Lawrence H. White
  
  
  Panel 4:  Globalization and the U.S. Economy
  
  
• “Trends in the European Union and Russia”
  Nile Gardiner
• “Trends in China” 
  Charles Wolf, Jr.
• “Trends in Latin America”
  Alejandro A. Chafuen
  
  
  
• “Wealth and Poverty: A 2006 Update”
  George Gilder