2021
Post-Pandemic Trajectories: Politics, the Economy, and Global Markets
A Live Webinar Series from 涩里番下载鈥檚 Carroll School of Management
As more Americans become vaccinated for COVID-19 in the coming months, and the remaining restrictions on U.S. businesses, travel, and in-person schooling are finally lifted, what comes next? What developments can we expect to see in domestic politics, and in our national economy as it recovers? And what opportunities and challenges lie ahead for investors and global markets?聽
These were some of the questions on tap at the 2021 Carroll School webinars, collectively titled 鈥淧ost-Pandemic Trajectories: Politics, the Economy, and Global Markets.鈥� More than 500 Carroll School alumni and others turned out virtually for the three-part series of live webinars in May 2021.
The series kicked off with a talk on May 3 by well-known political scientist and prognosticator Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia, who predicted that the Democrats would lose their congressional majority in 2022. 鈥淗e鈥檚 got two years,鈥� Sabato said of President Biden and his legislative agenda. Closely watched by news media was a May 5 presentation by Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who sought to tamp down fears of runaway inflation. Articles about the talk appeared in the , , and other major outlets. The final webinar on May 7 brought together a panel of experts who addressed questions of particular interest to both retail and professional investors. The panelists had mostly good news for those investors, agreeing that the economy is on a path to clear recovery, though expansion is farther off.
Monday, May 3, 2021, from 11 a.m. 鈥� 12:15 p.m. ET聽
- Speaker:聽Larry J. Sabato, American political scientist and founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
- 惭辞诲别谤补迟辞谤:听Jonathan Reuter,聽聽Associate Professor of Finance, 涩里番下载 Carroll School of Management
Wednesday, May 5, 2021, from 11 a.m. 鈥� 12:15 p.m. ET
- Speaker:聽Eric Rosengren, president and chief executive officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- 惭辞诲别谤补迟辞谤:听Marc Seidner '88, CIO, Non-traditional Strategies, PIMCO
Friday, May 7, 2021, from 11 a.m. 鈥� 12:15 p.m. ET
- 惭辞诲别谤补迟辞谤:听Kate Rooney 鈥�13,聽finance and technology reporter, CN涩里番下载
- Panel introduction by聽Daniel E. Holland III,聽'79,聽P'07,聽'08, Managing Director, Private Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Panel of experts in global financial markets, including聽搁颈肠丑补谤诲听叠别谤苍蝉迟别颈苍, chief executive officer and chief investment officer,聽搁颈肠丑补谤诲听叠别谤苍蝉迟别颈苍 Advisors; and聽Tony Pasquariello, Global Head of Hedge Fund Coverage, Global Markets Division,聽Goldman Sachs & Co.