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The American Enterprise DEBATES January 12, 2011 • 5:00 P.M. |
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Register online For more information, contact Apoorva Shah at apoorva.shah@aei.org or 202-862-5945. |
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Video of this event will be livestreamed online at http://www.american.com/watch/aei-livestream
In December, Representative Paul Ryan and the New York Times’ David Brooks captivated audiences with a critical debate on the size of government. Now, the widely acclaimed American Enterprise Debates returns with another big question for our times: how much quantitative easing is too much?
In our second debate, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former chief economic policy adviser to Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, will deliver a critique of the Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing, and John H. Makin, resident scholar in economics at AEI, will counter in support of QE2 and the role monetary policy can play in economic recovery. Reihan Salam, policy advisor at Economics 21 and author of The Agenda on National Review Online, will moderate.
John H. Makin is a resident scholar at AEI and a principal at Caxton Associates. Mr. Makin has been an adviser to numerous US government agencies, the Federal Reserve System, and the Bank of Japan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. Mr. Makin joined AEI in 1984 after a distinguished career in academic research. He is the author of numerous books and articles on financial, monetary, and fiscal policy, and he writes AEI's monthly Economic Outlook.
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21. He has worked as a reporter-researcher at the New Republic, a national security research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, an editorial researcher and junior op-ed editor at the New York Times, a producer at NBC News, and an associate editor at the Atlantic. Mr. Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation, and he writes regularly for Forbes.com, the Daily Beast, and National Review Online. He is the coauthor, with Ross Douthat, of Grand New Party (Doubleday, 2008). He is also a contributing editor at National Affairs and editor of the American Scene, and he has served as a political commentator on a number of radio and television programs.
