"Why Economists are lost and and conflicted over the economic meltdown?"

The Central Texas Chapter of The World Futures Society presents "Why economists are lost and conflicted over the economic meltdown?

Speaker: Lewis J. Spellman
Professor of Finance and Interdisciplinary Professor of Law, McCombs School of Business
University of Texas



Professor Spellman is Professor of Finance and Interdisciplinary Professor of Law at the University of Texas where he has taught since l971. His
degrees are BBA, MBA from the University of Michigan and MA and PhD from Stanford University. He has also taught at UTs LBJ School of Public Affairs, Cal-Berkeley and Stanford University. His primary teaching is in financial markets and institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate level with an emphasis on interpreting and analyzing current market and
policy developments and market trends.

His outside academic background includes government service where he served as Assistant to the Chairman President’s Counsel of Economic
Advisers and was an Economist with the Federal Reserve Board. His published work primarily concerns the market pricing of financial
institution claims.

Professor Spellman’s business interests include serving as a Director and Chairman of Investments, Magna Carta Insurance Company. Previously he
served as Chairman and CEO of Real Rate Financial and Electronic Exchange Technologies. He holds several US Patents relating to financial
instruments in an inflationary environment.

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Comment by Jon Roland on February 16, 2009 at 9:40am

Economists and others are conflicted because there are no good solutions. The herd is over the cliff. It is even too late to manage a soft landing. The best we can try to do now is to preserve our constitutional liberties and try to prepare for the aftermath when the situation has settled down, and make the best observations we can so we can avoid a repetition of this in the future.