34th Annual Monetary Conference

CENTRAL BANKS AND FINANCIAL TURMOIL

Thursday, November 17, 2016
9:00AM — 6:15PM

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

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8:30 — 9:00AM	REGISTRATION
9:00 — 9:05AM	WELCOMING REMARKS James A. Dorn Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute
9:05 — 9:45AM	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event Thomas M. Hoenig Vice Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
9:45 — 11:00AM	PANEL 1: CENTRAL BANKING AND MARKET VOLATILITY Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event Moderator: Craig Torres Financial Reporter, Bloomberg News John A. Allison Former President and CEO, Cato Institute, and former Chairman and CEO, BB&T Bank Mark Spitznagel President and CEO, Universa Investments, LP James Grant Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
11:00 — 11:30AM	BREAK
11:30AM — 12:45PM	PANEL 2: MONETARY MISCHIEF AND THE “DEBT TRAP” Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event Moderator: Josh Zumbrun National Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal Athanasios Orphanides Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management H. Robert Heller Former Member, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Daniel L. Thornton Former Vice President and Economic Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
12:45 — 1:30PM	LUNCHEON
1:30 — 2:15PM	LUNCHEON ADDRESS Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event Hon. Phil Gramm Former Chairman, Senate Banking Committee
2:15 — 3:30PM	PANEL 3: THE PROBLEM OF A CENTRALLY PLANNED MONETARY SYSTEM Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event Moderator: Judy Shelton Co-Director, Sound Money Project, Atlas Network Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Kevin Dowd Professor of Finance and Economics, Durham University Tyler Goodspeed Junior Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford
3:30 — 4:00PM	BREAK
4:00 — 5:15PM	PANEL 4: RETHINKING THE MONETARY TRANSMISSION MECHANISM Download the Video of the Event Download the Podcast of the Event Moderator: George Selgin Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute Jerry L. Jordan Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Steve Hanke Professor of Applied Economics, Johns Hopkins University Walker F. Todd Trustee, American Institute for Economic Research
5:15 — 6:15PM	RECEPTION

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