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The Global Economy: A Conversation With Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin
Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Garcetti, Bob Rubin, Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner
The Milken Institute Global Conference convened 3,500 participants from 55 countries to discuss U.S. economic recovery, gender inequality, and global leadership through a high-level panel featuring Bob Rubin, Hank Paulson, and Tim Geithner. The former Treasury Secretaries identified domestic political dysfunction as the primary barrier to addressing stagnant wages, unsustainable entitlements, and climate change risks, while emphasizing the necessity of renewed U.S.-China cooperation. Concurrently, the event highlighted Los Angeles as a hub for innovation and demographic diversity, celebrating its record-breaking female speaker representation alongside data-driven initiatives on successful aging and economic prosperity.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Detroit: Changing a City's Fortunes
Kenneth Buckfire, Dan Gilbert, Kevyn Orr, Rick Snyder, Gillian Tedd, Ken Buckfire, Gene Sperling, John Kingston, Chris Reynolds, Johnny Siegel
Governor Rick Snyder appointed Emergency Manager Kevin Orr to address Detroit's $18 billion insolvency by prioritizing the restoration of basic municipal services through a Chapter 9 bankruptcy that legally restructured unfunded pension and retiree healthcare liabilities. The restructuring process, supported by Dan Gilbert's private sector revitalization and an $800 million Grand Bargain, secured 100% repayment for creditors while forcing public employees to accept reduced benefits in exchange for a stabilized city budget. This aggressive approach successfully shifted the municipal trajectory from rapid population decline to a downtown commercial boom, establishing a precedent for handling chronic insolvency through transparency and political courage rather than deferred solutions.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
#MIGlobalEntrepreneurs
Daniel Gorfine, Avid Larrazadeh, Lindy Fishburne, Troy Carter, Mikhail Namov, William Hurley, Jace Wilson, Ari Leighton
The Milken Institute Global Entrepreneur's Competition united four judges, including Avid Larrazadeh and Troy Carter, to evaluate five startups addressing critical gaps in health, finance, and media. Among the contenders presenting solutions from Digital Genius's AI automation to Honest Dollar's retirement platform, Mikhail Namov's Digital Genius secured the victory through its enterprise-grade conversational technology and significant traction with Fortune 500 clients. The event concluded with Daniel Gorfine highlighting how the winning innovation exemplifies the entrepreneurial spirit of curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy.
- Milken Institute57 min
Global Consumers: Riding the Wave of the World's Growing Middle Class
Mitch Barnes, Mark Klaus, Justin Leung, Vimal Shah, Amit Singhalai
Driven by rapid growth in Asia and the emerging potential of Africa, the global middle class is shifting toward markets where local firms outpace multinationals through agile, hyper-localized strategies. Successful entities now prioritize product adaptation, such as smaller packaging and culturally relevant flavors, while leveraging mobile technologies to bypass traditional infrastructure deficits. The summary highlights that future market leadership requires balancing global scale with deep regional integration, moving beyond one-size-fits-all approaches to address distinct demographic and economic realities.
- Milken Institute56 min
Global Overview
Neil Ferguson, Madeleine Antoncik, Jamie Faurice, Pierre Beaudoin, Bob Collymore
Citi economists and industry leaders projected a historically low 3.5% global growth rate in 2014, driven by divergent trajectories where emerging markets account for 70% of expansion despite slowing major economies like China and Brazil. The analysis highlighted critical structural shifts, including the "Chimerica" dynamic of US-China growth contributions, the asset bubble risk from a tripling market capitalization, and the urgent need for infrastructure investment to address aging fleets and urbanization. Panelists further warned of systemic fragilities such as regulatory blind spots in shadow banking, the asymmetry of central bank policy responses, and severe "black swan" threats including youth unemployment and cyber attacks.
- Milken Institute51 min
Will Foreign Hands and Better Corporate Governance Lift the Japanese Economy?
Kashi-san, Yamazaki-san, Hamada-sensei, John San, Kotaro Tamura, Yoshimasa Yoshiroyama
Vice Minister of Finance Yamazaki, Prime Minister Abe's Special Advisor Dr. Hamada, and private sector leaders discussed Japan's economic revitalization under "Abenomics," citing record GDP growth, a 15-year high in the Nikkei index, and a tight labor market with a 22-year peak in job availability. The panel outlined critical structural reforms including a new corporate governance code mandating outside directors, a shift in pension fund equity allocation, and legislative measures to boost female labor participation and manage foreign worker recruitment for the aging population. With consumption tax hikes deferred and a primary fiscal surplus targeted by 2020, government officials and investors unanimously endorsed continued reform, projecting a robust recovery driven by domestic demand and increased shareholder returns.
- Milken Institute58 min
Power Shifts in Global Energy
John Raymond, Josh Harris, Pierre Breber, Karen Harbert, Bernd Fischer, Amy Christensen
Panelists analyzed a global oil market oversupplied by 2 million barrels per day, projecting a one-to-two-year recovery to a $65–$70 price range driven by declining U.S. shale rig counts and shifting geopolitical dynamics. Investment strategies are pivoting toward cost-efficient Permian assets and midstream infrastructure while avoiding service sector risks, as the energy sector's share of high-yield debt has surged to 18%. Concurrently, the summary highlights a historic shift in global power centered on North America, where lower prices have spurred petrochemical growth and manufacturing relocation while reducing the fiscal stability of petrodollar-dependent regimes.
- Milken Institute59 min
From Success to Significance: A Legacy of Purpose for Longer Lives
Laura Carstensen, Michael Eisner, Mark Friedman, Paul Irving, Joanne Jenkins
As life expectancy rapidly expands and the Baby Boomer generation transitions into old age, society faces a critical shortage of cultural infrastructure to support decades of extended vitality. Experts argue that retiring at 65 is an unsustainable model, urging a shift toward continuous "encore careers" and intergenerational mentorship to unlock a longevity dividend for solving global challenges. Without new social scripts and institutional innovations like purpose-driven work models, the potential of older adults to address complex issues such as climate change and caregiving shortages will remain dangerously underutilized.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Intangibles of Building a Great Hedge Fund: People as an Asset Class
Ilana Weinstein, Ken Griffin, Jason Karp, Alex Klaben, Gideon Berger
Industry leaders including Citadel's Ken Griffin and Turbion's Jason Karp discuss how the hedge fund sector has concentrated around 11% of funds managing 92% of assets while shifting focus toward talent cultivation over product creation. Key figures emphasize distinct strategies for scaling, such as Turbion's use of psychological screening to identify grit and Citadel's reliance on a culture of continuous learning and delegation to manage global markets. The discussion concludes that institutional investors now demand lower volatility and longer time horizons, prompting firms to balance risk management with the "white space" required to retain top-tier human capital.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
Trick of the Trade: Pouring Liquidity Back Into Fixed Income
Larry Tabb, Konstantinos Antiochus, Michael Frino, Amy Koch, Fred Orlin, Michael Puar, Mike McCurry, Kathryn Hartmann, David Rockefeller Jr.
Post-crisis regulatory frameworks like Dodd-Frank and Basel III have forced dealer deleveraging, compressing inventory levels by 20% and shifting the corporate bond market from a principal model to a riskless agency structure. While electronic platforms and transparency tools like TRACE aim to restore efficiency, the divergence between exploding ETF assets and shrinking dealer balance sheets has exacerbated liquidity constraints and volatility. Industry leaders and regulators anticipate a fragmented evolution where organic market-driven solutions, rather than forced structural changes, will eventually rebalance risk-taking incentives against regulatory capital realities.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Smart on Science: How Today's Patients Are Driving Cures
Kim McCleary, Bray Patrick Lake, Joe Selby, Mace Rothenberg, Lou DiGennaro, Tony Coles, Dr. Francis Collins
Five healthcare leaders, including representatives from Pfizer, PCORI, and the NIH, convened to discuss the paradigm shift from paternalistic care models to active patient partnerships in drug development. The panel highlighted how the Precision Medicine Initiative, corporate adaptations like Pfizer's early patient integration, and PCORI's methodology have accelerated trial designs and improved outcomes by prioritizing patient-defined endpoints. Moving forward, the industry aims to leverage real-world data and shared governance to reduce the $2.2 billion cost of development while ensuring research addresses the specific needs and lived experiences of patients.
- Milken Institute57 min
A Conversation With Ken Griffin and Mohamed El-Erian
Ken Griffin, Mohamed El-Erian, Gerry Baker
Panelists Mohamed El-Erian and Ken Griffin analyze a global economy defined by divergent monetary policies and structural stagnation, where the Federal Reserve normalizes rates while other major central banks maintain liquidity. Despite suppressed inflation and robust asset prices driven by state-level reforms, experts warn that prolonged artificial pricing and geopolitical instability in regions like the Middle East and Eurozone threaten long-term financial stability. Both speakers remain optimistic that technological advancements and the democratization of capital will eventually overcome political gridlock to reignite productivity and entrepreneurship.
- Milken Institute1h 5m
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (II)
Frank Luntz, Skip Reimer, Jim Gray, Bob Shapiro, Eric Schmidt Jr., John McWhorter, Priscilla Burton, Charlie Stokes
A prominent business leader outlines a strategic shift from traditional corporate branding to building trust through emotional connection and value-aligned language, citing record-low public confidence in CEOs and corporations. The presentation details specific linguistic reframing tactics, such as replacing "CEO" with "Business Leader" and "capitalism" with "economic freedom," to align with public priorities like peace of mind and stability. Ultimately, the speaker argues that future business success depends on adopting "hardworking taxpayer" messaging, prioritizing tangible results over abstract metrics, and addressing deep-seated societal fears regarding financial security.
- Milken Institute1h 13m
MI Forum: Hall of Mirrors
Barry Eichengreen, Michael Hiltzik, Skip Reimer
Economist Barry Eichengreen joined Michael Hiltzik at the Milken Institute's January 2015 forum to analyze historical parallels between the Great Depression and the 2008 financial crisis in a discussion of his book *Hall of Mirrors*. Eichengreen argued that the Euro's structural flaws and the Federal Reserve's past policy errors, including the Lehman Brothers failure, created systemic vulnerabilities that Keynesian fiscal intervention successfully averted during previous depressions. The session concluded with warnings that prioritizing short-term stability over long-term structural reform risks precipitating a future financial collapse within the next eighty years.
- Milken Institute1h 16m
The Water Challenge: Doing More with Less
Rodney Smith, Sanjay Gaur, Susan Leal, Andy Lipkus, Frances Phoebe Weber, Karen Ross, Moss, Carolyn Jungermann Bennett, Sanjeev, John McDonald Jr., Alec, Jim McDaniel, Marine Stapleton
An upcoming December event in Sacramento will convene Australian water authorities and technology firms to share critical lessons from Australia's decade-long "sea change" in water management with California stakeholders. The presentation aims to address the state's transition to a high-risk hydrologic environment by discussing integrated solutions for agricultural adaptation, groundwater regulation, and urban conservation technologies like direct potable reuse. Participants will examine how market mechanisms and infrastructure investments, such as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, can bolster resilience against escalating water volatility without relying on single silver-bullet solutions.