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32nd Annual Monetary Conference

Date and Time
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Location
1st floor/Wintergarden
Featuring
Featuring James Grant, Founder and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer; Axel Leijonhufvud, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), UCLA; Patrick Byrne, CEO and Chairman, Over​stock​.com; Judy Shelton, Co-Director, Sound Money Project, Atlas Economic Research Foundation; John Allison, President and CEO, Cato Institute, and retired Chairman and CEO, BB&T; and more.


Thursday, November 6, 2014
9:00 a.m. — 6:00 p.m.

Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

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Conference Schedule

8:30 — 9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION
9:00 — 9:05 a.m. WELCOMING REMARKS

James A. Dorn
Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute

9:05 — 9:45 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

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James Grant
Founder and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

9:45 — 11:00 a.m. PANEL 1: THE BITCOIN REVOLUTION

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Moderator: Jim Harper
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Global Policy Counsel, Bitcoin Foundation

Kevin Dowd
Professor of Finance and Economics, Durham University

Lawrence H. White
Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Bennett T. McCallum
Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University

11:00 — 11:15 a.m. BREAK
11:15 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. PANEL 2: CHANGING THE MONETARY REGIME: CONSTITUTIONAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES

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Moderator: Mark Calabria
Director of Financial Regulation, Cato Institute

John A. Allison
President and CEO, Cato Institute, and retired Chairman and CEO, BB&T

Edwin Vieira Jr.
Author, Pieces of Eight

Walker F. Todd
Grantee, Institute for New Economic Thinking

12:30 — 1:15 p.m. LUNCHEON
1:15 — 2:00 p.m. LUNCHEON ADDRESS

Patrick M. Byrne
CEO and Chairman, Over​stock​.com

2:00 — 3:15 p.m. PANEL 3: THE ROLE OF GOLD IN A MARKET-BASED MONETARY SYSTEM

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Moderator: George Melloan
Former Deputy Editor, Wall Street Journal

Jerry L. Jordan
Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

George A. Selgin
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Nathan Lewis
Author, Gold: The Monetary Polaris

3:15 — 3:30 p.m. BREAK
3:30 — 4:45 p.m. PANEL 4: THE PATH TO FUNDAMENTAL REFORM

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Moderator: Bob Gelfond
CEO and Founder, MQS Management

Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Judy Shelton
Co-Director, Sound Money Project, Atlas Network

Norbert Michel
Research Fellow in Financial Regulations, The Heritage Foundation

4:45 — 5:00 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS

James A. Dorn
Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute

5:00 — 6:00 p.m. RECEPTION: SPONSORED BY OVER​STOCK​.COM