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Mar. 12, 2008
STANFORD, Calif.—Walking into the big meeting room at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus March 7 for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research summit, the first thing one noticed were the comfortable-looking, overstuffed dark leather chairs on the podium for speakers and panelists.
Conferences never supply panelists with chairs of the type that normally are seen in lawyers' offices and judges' chambers. That was a clear reflection of who the speakers and audience were at this event—people such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Comptroller General David Walker, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and a good number of the nation's enterprise CEOs and chairmen of the board.
Mostly, these several hundred well-dressed folks from all sectors of the economy were listening to messages of global and domestic economic doom, such as that the country is probably in a recession and that world markets are likely to follow. Overall, not exactly an upbeat series of talks.
Read the full story on eWEEK.com here.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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