McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics: The Falling Dollar - Should We Worry?

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Speakers
Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Richard Clarida

C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics, Columbia University

John B. Taylor

Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

James Grant

Founder and Editor, Grant's Interest Rate Observer

Presider
Michael J. Elliott

Editor, Time International

McKinsey Executive Roundtable

The McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics was a quarterly meetings series, which brought together major U.S. and foreign policymakers, business leaders, and independent commentators to discuss and debate current issues in international economics, such as global energy markets, tax policy, global demographic change, and securities regulation.

This meeting series was sponsored by the Corporate Program and the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and has been retired.

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