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International House – When The Fed Reserve Speaks…The World Listens

When The Fed Reserve Speaks…The World Listens International House made history on Thursday, April 7, 2016, when, for the first time, all four living Chairs of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank gathered together for a public discussion. “When the Federal Reserve Speaks…The World Listens,” was a live panel discussion where former Chairs Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker and Ben Bernanke joined current Chair Janet Yellen in Davis Hall. The capacity audience included Residents, Alumni, Trustees and luminaries from New York’s diverse business communities, and the event received unprecedented media coverage from outlets around the world. The panel was moderated by CNN international affairs expert and I-House Trustee Fareed Zakaria. The discussion ranged from the pressures faced in making difficult decisions that have global impact, to the values espoused by each Chair in doing so, to how they faced the impact of their decisions