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Clear all filters- Milken Institute1h 2m
Lunch Panel - Global Overview: Shifting Fortunes
Eike Batista, Xi-Qing Gao, Scott Minerd, Barry Sternlicht, Chris Viehbacher, Michael Klowden
Leading global financiers and industrialists, including Eike Batista, Gao Xixing, Scott Minard, Barry Sternlicht, and Chris Wiebacher, convened to analyze divergent monetary policies and the structural transition of emerging markets away from export dependence. The panelists debated the risks of U.S. and European debt cycles while highlighting Brazil's expanding middle class and China's strategic shift toward domestic consumption and currency flexibility. Ultimately, the discussion concluded that sustainable future growth requires a pivot from resource extraction to innovation and that global economic stability depends on coordinated leadership to prevent a systemic financial rupture.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Lunch Panel - What's Happened to the American Dream?
Harold Ford, Jr., Neil Ferguson, Jeff Green, Charles Murray, Steve Ratner
Moderated by Harold Ford, Jr., a panel of four experts including Charles Murray, Steve Ratner, Neil Ferguson, and Jeff Green examined the erosion of the American Dream through distinct lenses of cultural decay, fiscal unsustainability, historical divergence, and globalization. While the panelists agreed on the urgency of addressing a structural deficit and a collapsing middle class, they diverged on solutions, with Murray and Ferguson advocating for civil society and cultural reform over government intervention, whereas Ratner and Green called for shifting from a transfer state to an investment state via infrastructure and education. Ultimately, the group warned that without a "Simpson-Bowles" style compromise to fix entitlements and stabilize the tax code, the United States risks European-style economic stagnation and significant social unrest.
- Milken Institute55 min
Lunch Panel - Europe at a Crossroads
Jason Cummins, Raymond McDaniel Jr., Nouriel Roubini, Josef Stadler, Christopher Ailman, Chris Ailman
Moderated by CalSTRS CIO Chris Ailman, a panel of global economists and financial leaders analyzed the Eurozone's structural fractures, identifying a high probability of a "slow-motion train wreck" driven by unsustainable debt, banking-sovereign loops, and a widening core-periphery divide. Dr. Nouriel Roubini projected Greece's exit by late next year as a precursor to a potential 2-to-4-year period of debt restructurings, while experts highlighted Spain and France as immediate solvency risks that could force the European Central Bank beyond its current inflation-focused mandate. In response to these geopolitical pressures, investors are shifting capital from financial to tangible real assets to hedge against currency devaluation, even as political fragmentation in Berlin and Paris prevents a unified fiscal solution or orderly disintegration.
- Milken Institute1h 6m
Milken Institute/Google -- Innovation
Aneesh Chopra, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Tony Fratto, Pablo Chavez, Brad Belk, Tony Prado, Shalina, Alayna Nolan, Tim Jarbo
Google and the Milken Institute co-hosted the maiden restart of "DC Talks," featuring a panel of experts including former U.S. CTO Anish Chopra and journalist Vijay Vaitheeswaran to dissect the role of government in fostering an innovation-driven economy. The discussion highlighted policy strategies such as open data initiatives, technology-neutral prizes, and infrastructure investment that have successfully accelerated adoption in sectors like health IT and renewable energy while emphasizing a shift from invention to value-creating fresh thinking. Looking forward, the speakers advocated for tolerance of failure, lifelong learning systems, and new accounting standards to recognize intangible assets as essential drivers for solving complex global challenges in the 21st century.
- Milken Institute1h 23m
California's Stem Cell Initiative: Mapping the New Frontier of Medicine
Scheduled for April 27–29 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the upcoming global conference will feature strategic updates from CIRM leadership, including discussions on $632.5 million in awarded grants and a new billion-dollar commitment to Disease Teams. The meeting also addresses critical logistical changes, such as a 10% attendance reduction to improve quality, alongside presentations on overcoming funding gaps caused by California's budget impasse. With key figures like Chris Ailman participating in related February events, the agenda emphasizes accelerating translational breakthroughs in stem cell therapies for conditions like spinal cord injury and diabetes while navigating complex regulatory landscapes.
- Milken Institute1h 20m
Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of Democracy
In a Milken Institute panel, ACLU President Susan Herman and Chapman Law School's John Eastman debated the post-9/11 expansion of state surveillance powers under the USA Patriot Act and the shifting legal frameworks of the Fourth Amendment. While Eastman defended expanded tools like roving wiretaps and enhanced interrogations as essential wartime necessities that successfully led to Osama bin Laden's death, Herman countered that these measures constitute ineffective "security theater" and have eroded civil liberties without proportional security benefits. The discussion ultimately highlighted deep partisan divides regarding the balance between national security and constitutional due process, particularly concerning the targeted killing of citizens and the indefinite detention of alleged combatants.
- Milken Institute1h 15m
The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream
Gary Shapiro contends that innovation must serve as the primary national strategy to resolve the U.S. fiscal crisis, arguing that traditional spending cuts and tax hikes are insufficient to address the unsustainable trajectories of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. He advocates for specific reforms including strategic immigration of high-value STEM talent, the reduction of aggressive antitrust litigation that stifles companies like Boeing and Google, and the reallocation of capital from low-return stimulus projects to a dynamic economy driven by creative destruction. Shapiro challenges the government to leverage American heterogeneity and risk tolerance by joining the "Innovation Movement" to pressure leaders into prioritizing long-term growth over political convenience.
- Milken Institute1h 21m
Milken Institute Forum: Todd Buchholz
Todd Buchholz, Skip, Debbie, Dick Fredericks, Henny Youngman, E.F. Schumacher, Jimmy Carter, Robert Redford, Shirley Temple, Julia Child, Jackie Robinson, George Washington, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stalin, Daniel Gilbert, Richard Frank, Mandela, Steve Jobs, Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Fidel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mark Twain, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Jonas Salk, Watson, Crick, Harry, Lucille Ball, Ethel, Kiyosaki, Tom Cruise, Ozzie, Harriet, Beaver, Theodore Roosevelt, Milton Berle, Joe Biden, Yao Ming, John Taylor, Al Gore, John Mackey
Todd Buchholz argues that human rushing, biological stress, and economic competition are essential drivers of happiness, freedom, and historical progress, refuting narratives that advocate for retreat into simplicity. He supports this thesis with neuroscientific evidence showing that risk-taking stimulates cognitive function, historical data proving capitalism's role in extending life expectancy, and corporate case studies like General Motors illustrating the inefficiency of suppressed competition. Buchholz concludes that removing competitive pressure leads to stagnation and tyranny, while maintaining that freedom and merit-based incentives are necessary to sustain the ongoing rise in human prosperity and longevity.
- Milken Institute7 min
2008 State of the State - Funding State Government
This analysis attributes California's budgeting crisis to a deficit in governance capacity driven by structural flaws like term limits, gerrymandered districts, and an overreliance on the initiative process rather than partisan gridlock. It contrasts the state's declining legislative performance with historical bipartisan precedents of fiscal responsibility, advocating for reforms such as multi-year budgeting, strengthened rainy day funds, and an open primary system to restore institutional trust. The presentation concludes that without these structural changes to foster consensus-based leadership, California risks political upheaval and a loss of future competitiveness.