Monday (July 25)
10-11:30 a.m.
Koury Auditorium
Kenan-Flagler Business School, off Bowles Drive, near the Smith Center
UNC-Chapel Hill
Monday (July 25)
10-11:30 a.m.
Koury Auditorium
Kenan-Flagler Business School, off Bowles Drive, near the Smith Center
UNC-Chapel Hill
Media representatives are invited to attend “The Debt Crisis and Saving Our Fiscal Future,” a roundtable discussion on the nation’s debt crisis, hosted by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. Congress faces an Aug. 2 deadline to increase the nation’s debt ceiling and avoid a government default. PBS broadcast journalist Charlie Rose will moderate the discussion.
Participants in the roundtable will be:
- U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, (D-N.C), a member of the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee;
- Gregory W. Brown, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Finance at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School;
- Maceo K. Sloan, chairman, president and CEO of Sloan Financial Group Inc. and chairman, CEO and chief investment officer for NCM Capital Management Group Inc. and NCM Advisors Inc.
- John Spratt, former chair, U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee;
- John Weinberg, director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
- Mark W. Yusko, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Morgan Creek Capital Management LLC.
Parking: A limited number parking spaces have been reserved in the Kenan-Flagler visitors’ lot and the Kenan-Flagler parking deck, and are available to media on a first-come, first-served basis. Media representatives who plan to cover the event should RSVP to Matthew Lebold, (919) 962-8201, Matthew_Lebold@kenan-flagler.unc.edu, no later than 4:30 p.m. Friday (July 22).
Broadcasters: A mult box will be available for audio feeds. Because of the location, no cable runs will be possible, and satellite trucks will need to park in the visitors’ lot.
News Services contact (day of the event): Susan Houston, (919) 360-5501, susan_houston@unc.edu.