The Wall Street Journal is holding a major insider conference this coming Monday and Tuesday in Washngton D.C. WSJ has been kind enough to clear me for press credentials to cover the event.
The Future of Finance Initiative participants are a near complete who's who of financial insiders. Among those attending:
Treasury Secretary Geithner
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Australia
Paul Volcker
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director,The Carlyle Group
Paul Calello, CEO Credit Suisse
Robert E. Rubin, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group
Eraj Shirvani,Chairman, International Swaps and Derivatives Association
James S. Turley, Chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young
Laura Tyson, S. K. and Angela Chan Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Meredith Whitney, CEO and Founder, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
Roger Altman, Chairman and CEO, Evercore Partners
James S. Chanos, Founder and Managing Partner, Kynikos Associates
H. Rodgin Cohen, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Gary D. Cohn, President and Co-COO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Christine Lagarde, French Minister for Economy, Finance and Employment
We know what Rudd will be pushing for.
ReplyDelete"Decisive action is needed to ensure adequate and speedy resourcing of the IMF. Now is not the time for protracted debates or further studies — something that has been a feature of IMF reform to date..."
In other words, shut up and spend.