Panel 3: An Expanded Fed Mandate?

Otmar Issing, President, Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and former Chief Economist at the European Central Bank

Karen Petrou, Managing Partner, Federal Financial Analytics

Scott Sumner, Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Moderated by Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter, New York Times

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Luncheon Address: Populism and Central Banks

Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

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Panel 2: Fiscal Dominance and the Return of Inflation

John H. Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Fernando M. Martin, Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Mark Sobel, U.S. Chairman, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum

David Beckworth, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Moderated by Greg Ip, Chief Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal

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Panel 1: The Populist Challenge to Fed Independence

Charles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics

Rosa María Lastra, Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law, Queen Mary University of London

Carola Binder, Assistant Professor of Economics, Haverford College

Christina Parajon Skinner, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Moderated by Allison Schrager, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

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Welcoming Remarks

James A. Dorn, Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute

Keynote Address

Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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Do the nation’s highest officers, including the president, have a right to lie, no matter what damage their falsehoods cause? Does freedom of expression protect falsehoods? If so, are lies by candidates and public officials protected? And is there a constitutional path, without violating the First Amendment, to stop a president whose persistent lies endanger our lives and our democracy?

Perhaps counterintuitively, the general answer to each question is “yes.” Drawing from dramatic court cases about defamers, proponents of birtherism, braggarts, and office holders, Ross reveals the almost insurmountable constitutional and practical obstacles to legal efforts to rein in public deception. She explains the rules that govern the treatment of lies, while also demonstrating the incalculable damage that presidential mendacity may foster.

Falsehoods have been at issue in every presidential impeachment proceeding from Nixon to Trump. But, until now, no one has analyzed why public lies might be impeachable offenses, and whether the First Amendment would provide a defense. Noting that speech by public employees does not receive the same First Amendment protection as the speech of ordinary citizens, Ross proposes the constitutionally viable solution of treating presidents as public employees who work for the people. Charged with oversight of the Executive, Congress may—and should—put future presidents on notice that material lies to the public on substantial matters will be deemed a “high crime and misdemeanor” subject to censure and even impeachment.

Please join us for a lively discussion of an issue that could not be of greater importance.

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