The Origin of Downturnaround

If you want to go pointing fingers over the economic downturn, there are the usual suspects—the quants at JP Morgan, the lenders at Countrywide, AIG… Take your pick. But Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking wants to consider it more broadly. In a (free, mostly) conference next week at its campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, the issue will be viewed as a "Burden of Our Times." [Read more]

--Posted by Laura Rich, RecessionWire.com

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