Spring MoAF Event Videos Now Available - 7/18/2024

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Generative AI is rapidly becoming a more integral part of our lives. Like most disruptive technologies, along with innovation, it’s brought some fear and trepidation. In this provocative discussion, moderator Josh Brown, CNBC commentator and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management—along with panelists Hema Balasubramanian, VP, Strategy and Innovation, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT); John Mileham, CTO, Betterment; and Jeremy Olshan, personal finance bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal—help us navigate the complex and fast-changing topic of the impact of AI on finance.

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This panel discussion highlights the brilliant career and lasting legacy of Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and long-time business partner of Warren Buffett. The panel features four of the people who knew him best and represent various aspects of Mr. Munger’s life and career. Participants include Lawrence Cunningham (moderator), editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett and author of Berkshire Beyond Buffett; Tom Gayner, CEO, Markel Group; Donald Graham, chairman emeritus, Graham Holdings Company; and Ronald Olson, partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson.

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In this program, Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s flagship international affairs show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, discusses his new book, Age of Revolutions, with Ian Bremmer, political scientist, author and president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. In this major work, Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world.

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Harvard fellow, US Treasury adviser and author Gregory Makoff discusses the riveting story of Argentina's sovereign debt drama. In Default, Makoff describes the intense fight over the role of the IMF in Argentina's 2005 debt restructuring and the ensuing decade of bitter litigation with holdout creditors. This cautionary tale lays bare the institutional, political and legal pressures that come into play when a country cannot repay its debts.

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Investors who neglect to study the past are forced to rely primarily on their life experience to make decisions. This often causes them to overlook powerful, cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape economies and markets. Mark Higgins, author of Investing in U.S. Financial History, discusses several of the most important lessons that help contextualize challenges that the United States currently faces.

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In this program, Stanford University historian Jennifer Burns discusses her latest book, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Burns provides lucid and lively context for Friedman’s groundbreaking work on everything from why dentists earn less than doctors, to the vital importance of the money supply, to inflation and the limits of government planning and stimulus. She also explores Friedman’s key role in creating a new economic vision and a modern American conservatism.

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New York Times best-selling author Daniel Schulman discusses his new book, The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America. Schulman unspools a sweeping narrative that traces the interconnected origin stories of several financial dynasties. He chronicles their paths to Wall Street dominance, as they navigated the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age and the complexities of wars that tested their burgeoning empires and identities.

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Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan and Economics Professor Rohit Lamba discuss their latest book, Breaking the Mold: India's Untraveled Path to Prosperity. In this program, they explain how it is possible to accelerate economic development by investing in India's human capital, expanding opportunities in high-skilled services and manufacturing centered on innovative new products, and making India a ferment of ideas and creativity.

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Michael Gatto, a partner at Silver Point Capital, speaks on his latest book, The Credit Investor's Handbook: Leveraged Loans, High Yield Bonds and Distressed Debt. His book is the definitive guide for young investment professionals embarking on a career investing in the leveraged credit markets—whether public, private, performing or distressed. Experienced professionals will also immensely benefit from this guide as they refine their investment skills.

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Where did modern banking come from―and how does this history help us understand financial crises? Distinguished banker, executive and historian Paolo Zannoni discusses his new book, Money and Promises, and examines the complex relationship between states and banks that has changed the world.

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