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The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis has been an extraordinary period in monetary and fiscal policy in the United States and around the world. Considering the remarkable economic and financial history of the past half-decade, the American Enterprise Institute would like to offer undergraduates the opportunity to learn more about the crisis from those who observed it firsthand.

An AEI webinar will feature brief commentary from two top AEI scholars, John H. Makin and Stephen D. Oliner. The majority of the time will be reserved for questions from undergraduate economics and finance students. By providing this opportunity to elite students of macroeconomics, public finance, and monetary policy around the nation, we hope to foster a broader understanding of economics in the wake of the crisis.

Watch the video and participate live on this page on February 28, 2013, at 2:00pm (EST).

For more information, please contact Daniel Hanson at Daniel.Hanson@aei.org or 202-862-5883.

Supplemental Reading

• The Official Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, with dissenting views from Peter Wallison and from Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, and Bill Thomas ►
• St. Louis Federal Reserve Timeline of the Financial Crisis ►
• European Central Bank's Key Dates of the Financial Crisis ►
• The Bank of England: How Quantitative Easing Works ►
• This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly ►
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Chartbook on the Legacy of the Great Recession ►
• The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: Five Years of Pain ►

No Way Out: Persistent Government Interventions in the Great Contraction
Vincent Reinhart