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Civilian National Service programs. This was hosted by the Brookings Institution. It is one hour and 10 minutes. John good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of National Service. Let me make a few brief comments to begin with. In such divided and turbulent times, we must look for ways to bridge society, to bridge the divides and to restore a sense of community. In recent years, much has been d ....
And i am glad i didnt have to answer them and thank you to chris and kevin for doing that. We will reconvene in 15 minutes for a panel on civic virtue. Thank you for being here. I am a fellow here at the Stockdale Center and its a pleasure to be with peter to discuss virtue. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books and he is director of constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books. We will start i think with peter. The thank you. It is great to be here with my panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual, for me at east to approach the panels topic of civil virtue and its decline and its rein ....
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 th ....
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 securities and writing about the relationship between the fed and the congress only briefly mention this morning but is relevant given after the Fe ....
First lady, she never wanted her husband to be president. Shes frightened, frightened for him. Meanwhile, he has to get up there and inspire confidence in his administration and the whole world. The whole world has to be has to understand that america will. That the war will continue. Q a sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. More from the Brookings Institution forum on inflation. Experts, including former Federal Reserve chair ben bernanke, and former treasury secretary Larry Summers, talked about the current inflation target of 2 and whether changes are needed. Its 2 15. Good afternoon and welcome. Im david wessell, director of the brookings. Thank you for coming and people joining us online. I bring greetings from glen hutchens, the benefactor of the hutchens center, whose chartered plane was canceled so he ca ....