May Events

This all day Mises Circle event on Saturday, May 22nd has top experts speaking.

They’ll explain the sovereign debt and currency crises happening around the world. In one day, the fog will clear.Larry Parks is not to be missed.

I’ll be attending on Saturday, May 22 in NYC.

University Club

One West 54 St.

8AM Start

Mises Circle in Manhattan
(Sponsored by David W. Tice, Mark L. Hart III, The Conant Family Foundation, and anonymous donors)

Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets

Register now.

Only the Austrian perspective on economics can provide a credible accounting for what has happening to the monetary system, the banking system, the housing market, and the entire financial sector. Here is the conference that puts it all together: the theory, the practice, the history, all within the context of the financial markets.

It is an opportunity to hear some of the best financial minds today speak out on the crisis that continues to afflict us thanks to central bank intervention and government policy, both of which are conspiring to destroy the American standard of living.

Please join us for this historic occasion

College Hall, The University Club, One West 54th Street, NYC, NY 10019

Schedule
8:00 a.m.   Registration begins, Coffee, Bookstore Opens
9:00 a.m.   Welcome
9:15 a.m.   Douglas E. French, Mises Institute, “ABCT and the Mind of the Investor”
9:45 a.m.   Christopher Whalen, Institutional Risk , “Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream”
10:15 a.m.  Refreshment break, Discussion, Bookstore Open
10:30 a.m.  Robert Murphy, Institute for Energy Research, “Only the Austrians Understand Interest Rates”
11:00 a.m.  Kevin Duffy, Bearing Asset Management, “Navigating the Financial Markets with an Austrian Compass”
11:30 a.m.  Joseph Salerno, Pace University, “Can ABCT Explain the Overconsumption Boom?”

Noon – 2:00 p.m.  Luncheon, Main Dining Room, 7th Floor

12:45 p.m.  Lawrence Parks, Foundation for Monetary Education, “Why the U.S. Monetary         System is Dishonest & Blowing Up”
1:00 p.m.    Marc Faber, Editor and Publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, When is the Next AIG to Fall?”

2:00 p.m.    Break, Discussion, Bookstore Open (College Hall)
2:15 p.m.    Thorsten Polleit, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, “Fiat Money and Collective Corruption”
2:45 p.m.    Frederick Sheehan, AuContrarian.com, “Chairman Greenspan: A Fiat Mind for a Fiat Age”
3:15 p.m.    Refreshment break, Discussion, Bookstore Open
3:30 p.m.    Joseph Calandro, University of Connecticut, “Austrian Economics and Investing”
4:00 p.m.    Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Mises Institute, “Austrian Economist vs. Fed Economist”
4:30 p.m.    Refreshment break, Discussion, Bookstore Open
4:45 p.m.    All-speaker Panel with Q&A, moderated by Jeff Scott, Cognilytics
5:30 p.m.    Adjourn
6:30 p.m.    Bookstore Closes

James Fogal of the Mises Institute will be available during breaks to discuss tax-saving strategies.  Email him if you’d like to reserve a time.

Registration fee for Mises Institute Members is $145, including lunch and refreshment breaks ($210 for non-Members). To provide a scholarship so that a worthy student can attend, donate here.

Space is limited.

Accommodations: At the University Club call 212-572-3415 or email before April 23 and mention the Mises Institute for a special rate of $295 per night plus tax, based on availability.  Or contact the nearby Warwick Hotel at 212-247-2700 or email or register online before April 19 and mention Rate Code 0510MI for a special rate of $215 per night plus tax, based on availability.