Wall Street's Gain, Main Street's Pain:
The All-Important Battle for Real Financial Reform
Thursday, October 1, 2009
7:00 PM
Auditorium
Last fall, the US government embarked on a huge public rescue of Wall Street, necessary, we were told, to avert a second Great Depression and to save Main Street from a devastating credit crunch. To mark the one year anniversary of the bailout, Dēmos, the New York Society for Ethical Culture and The Nation magazine are proud to present Nomi Prins (former Goldman Sachs Managing Director and author, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street) in a much-needed public conversation about how to restore financial sanity and responsibility in our economy going forward. Ms. Prins will be joined by two of America's leading journalists: Daniel Gross, Senior Editor of Newsweek and author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, and Rolling Stone political reporter Matt Taibbi, whose hard-hitting exposé of Goldman Sachs, "The Great American Bubble Machine," sent shock waves through the business world and the mainstream media last summer. This event will be introduced by The Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and moderated by PBS host David Brancaccio.
Admission is FREE, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click here to register or contact Jinny Khanduja at jkhanduja@demos.org or 212.389.1399.