[Mitworld] New: George Soros on a Financial Markets, Admiral Fallon on Global Concerns for Next U.S. Administration

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 21 | January 14, 2009

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George Soros on The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
October 28, 2008

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.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/633

Speaker:
George Soros
Founder and Chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC

Ricardo Caballero
Ford International Professor of Economics, MIT

Event Host:
MIT Office of the President

"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."
-George Soros

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Global Concerns of National Importance for the Next U.S. Administration
October 28, 2008

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.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/630

Speaker:
Admiral William Fallon
Former Head of CENTCOM
Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies

Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"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."
-Admiral William Fallon

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In The Pipeline:
>From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation

Presented By:
Engineering Systems Division
Brunel Lecture on Complex Systems

Speaker:
Shai Agassi
Founder & CEO
Better Place

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