Archives the focus on the 2008 economic recession, trade and finance. All of the programs that youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org and you can do for the search function at the top of the page. First and february of 2015, the American Enterprise Institute Peter wallace and appears on our Author Interview program afterwards. He argued that government policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Hidden in plain sight pretty literally caused the world financial crisis and why it could happen again printed you remember the financial crisis. It was investigating the causes and oh seven and oh eight pretty and you said that not only in the democrats on the committee but also from the republicans appointees, what did you see that they did not. Ive been looking at the housing system in the United States printed donna frank ansari, fannie mae and freddie mac. For quite a while before i got in the commission. So i had a lot of background of what is
Confronting congress and the nation. The purpose of the program is not to provide or advocate for any particular political positi position. It is nonpartisan. It is intended to inform policymakers and the public about the sorts of issues they are dealing with. I want to first give a few thanks first to the Melon Foundation for providing the funding that makes these briefings possible. I also want to thank our assistant jeffrey who is outside this room for helping to make the arrangements. I want to thank the office of Jerry Connolly which booked the room. And i want to remind or explain why there were index cards on your seats and why i passed other index cards around. What we will do after the presentations by the speakers we will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards rather than ask them in front of the audience. Keep your index cards ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. And so now i will turn this over to m
More than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and its become and land of endless wars. Despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention. U. S. Policy had more often than not been a failure. More often than not is too kind. If one accepts that the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible ot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how. In this regard, the editors of seven pillars, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis and their co contributors have given a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify art is long gone era ideology by the military, education, economy and governance. Ive found many of the authors perspectives to be unique and to begin looking at al old problemn new ways whether it serves as the basis for a bipartisa
Welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually, but the book entitled seven pillars and the discussion is to look more broadly and deeply at the drivers of instability of the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil if we cant become a land of before and tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning intentions into the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts it was a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for the success or failure are the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so,
Tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning intentions into the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts it was a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for the success or failure are the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how. In this regard, the editors of seven pillars, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis and their co contributors have given a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify art is long gone era ideology by the military, education, economy and governance. Ive found many of the authors perspectives to be unique and to begin looking at al