America's Eroding Economic System: Comments from an Iconoclastic CEO

Leo Hindery, Jr. Shared his insights into what is troubling the US economy; and what needs to be done to fix it. Argued that: China's subsidization of domestic technology uptake is more of a threat to the US economy than the undervaluation of the Yuan; improving the US public education system is not the economic panacea it is often presented as; and that management is accountable to multiple constituents, not including itself.

What Should America's Future Economic Road Map Be?
The Honorable Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Argued that the single most important government programs are those aimed at creating good jobs. America's economic strategy should not centre on erecting walls around the domestic economy. Instead, it should purse policies that increase purchasing power in the rest of the world, while simultaneously instituting rules to govern the global economy.