Public affairs council. Thank you so much for attending our round table, entitled islam versus the west, the lie that keeps on giving. We are grateful to our esteemed panelists for agreeing to speak on this very critical and timely topic. To all of our viewers watching on cspan2 and listening on cspan radio. We would like for this panel to be as interactive as possible so we have cards on the table for our guests here in house to submit questions for the q a, and we also, for the viewers watching on tv, you can tweet us your questions. Before i pass the microphone to our director of policy and advocacy program, and the moderator of todays event, i would like to say a few words. Mpac is a National Public Affairs Organization that works to promote and strengthen pluralism for the american doublet. We do that by working on policies that affect our community. The Foreign Policy areas we work on are National Security and Civil Liberties, immigration, human security, as well as religious fre
By the Brookings Institution center on fiscal and Monetary Policy, an hour and 45 minutes. So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank sec
By the Brookings Institution center on fiscal and Monetary Policy, an hour and 45 minutes. So, in thinking about this event and in what we wanted to accomplish here, what we set out to do was to have Larry Summers make the case why we should think about this, have a number of very experienced monetary economists who have views about what we should do, think about what we should do. In this panel, the question was, could we get some people to some very different points of view, to talk about, what difference does this really make . Is this worth the energy we spend on it and to whom does it matter . So we have a deliberately diverse panel. John taylor from stanford, wellknown for his taylor rule, thinking about Monetary Policy for a long time. Christian forbes from mit, until recently on the Monetary Policy committee of the bank of england, correct me if i am wrong, you never had a chance to raise rates, is that right . Right. You tried. Peter hooper chief economist of Deutsche Bank sec
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