Feb 10: Film on Financial Crisis

Film screening: "Inside Job" — a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse.
Thursday, February 10, 6:30 PM and 9:30 PM
University of Notre Dame's Debartolo Performing Arts Center
Discussion following the 6:30 screening by:
Martin Wolfson, Associate Professor of Economics, author of Financial Crises: Understanding the Postwar US Experience, former economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.
Judith Fox, Associate Clinical Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School, where she teaches and practices consumer law.  She is an expert in predatory lending practices, particularly as they pertain to the mortgage market and foreclosure law.

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