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<p style="color: #777777;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;margin: 0;padding: 0 0 10px 0;">Volume 8, Number 21</p>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"You have this rational expectations theory that markets are always right. As a working hypothesis, it’s much better to assume that the markets are always wrong. They reflect the existing state of affairs in a distorted or biased way."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">George Soros</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/633" style="color: #94353b;">George Soros on The New Paradigm for Financial Markets</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">October 28, 2008</p>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">In conversation with Ricardo Caballero, George Soros extends his “theory of reflexivity” from abstraction to application in the realm of investing, and provides insights on the world financial crisis.</p>
<h3 style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:20px;text-transform:uppercase;">Speaker</h3>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">George Soros</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Founder and Chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Ricardo Caballero</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Ford International Professor of Economics, MIT</p>
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<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 10px 0 10px 0;">"The president will have to clearly signal we not only care about what others think and do but that we’ll get our domestic house in order. This is a prerequisite to reestablishing U.S. prestige and influence for the betterment of a very interdependent world."</p>
<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Admiral William Fallon</h3>
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<h2 style="color: #94353b;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 20px;font-weight: normal;margin: 0 0 15px 0;padding: 0;"><a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/630" style="color: #94353b;">Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next U.S. Administration</a></h2>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">October 28, 2008</p>
<p style="color: #323232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">As a naval man with 45 years of experience dealing with conflicts all over the world, Admiral Fallon figures that the major challenges facing the nation will be at minimum “daunting,” but they are not beyond our collective capability.</p>
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Admiral William Fallon</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Former Head of CENTCOM
<br />Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies</p>
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<h3 style="color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;margin:0;padding-top:0;text-transform:uppercase;">In The Pipeline:</h3>
<h3 style="color: #ffffff;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:15px;">From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation</h3>
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<br />Brunel Lecture on Complex Systems</p>
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<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-weight: normal;margin:0;padding-top:0;">Shai Agassi</h3>
<p style="color: #323232;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin: 0;padding: 3px 0 10px 0;">Founder & CEO
<br />Better Place</p>
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