Black Futures Lab

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Speaker Schedule

09:30:00 AM Ralph Nader: Opening Remarks

09:50:00 AM Bert Foer: Antitrust & How Kleptocracy Corrupts What Markets Are Supposed to Do

https://www.antitrustinstitute.org/people/albert-a-foer/

10:10:00 AM William Black: Financial and Insurance Rackets

https://law.umkc.edu/directory/faculty-directory/name/william-black/

10:30:00 AM Robert Kuttner: The Virtues and Limits of Markets

http://prospect.org/authors/robert-kuttner

10:50:00 AM Greg LeRoy: Subsidies, Handouts, Giveaways and Bailouts

https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/about-us#greg

11:10:00 AM James Henry: Systematized Tax Evasion

https://globaljustice.yale.edu/people/james-s-henry-0

11:30:00 AM Lunch

12:15:00 PM Russell Mokhiber: Systemic Corporate Crime—Business as Usual

https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/subscribe/

12:35:00 PM Rob Weissman: How Market Fundamentalism Corrupts The Political Process

https://www.citizen.org/about/robert-weissman

12:55:00 PM Dennis Kelleher: Endemic Market Failure/Inequality

https://bettermarkets.com/dennis-kelleher

01:15:00 PM Tom McGarity: The Assault on Regulation (And the Case for It)

https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/thomas-o-mcgarity

01:35:00 PM Rena Steinzor: The Assault on Regulation (And the Case for It)

https://www.law.umaryland.edu/directory/profile.asp?id=118

01:55:00 PM Damon Silvers: SEC and the Inadequacy of Financial Regulation

https://aflcio.org/policy-experts/damon-silvers

02:15:00 PM Joel Rogers: Public Goods

https://law.wisc.edu/profiles/[email protected]

02:35:00 PM William Lazonick: Stock Buybacks

https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/wlazonick

02:55:00 PM Lori Wallach: Market Fundamentalism and Trade

https://www.citizen.org/our-work/globalization-and-trade/lori-wallach-director-public-citizens-global-trade-watch

03:15:00 PM Steven Clifford: The Lack of a Free Market for Executive Compensation

http://www.stevecliffordauthor.com/about-steven-clifford

03:35:00 PM Ralph Nader: Institutionalizing Lawlessness—Systematically Subverting Markets

https://nader.org/biography/

3:50-4:30 PM Discussion