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The Big Talker Big Money Financial Literacy Series
hosted by: Steve Cordasco
featuring: David M. Walker, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Former U.S. Comptroller General
May 21, 2008
7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
The Union League in Philadelphia
The Big Talker 1210am will host a breakfast to promote the understanding of both the nature and urgency of key financial sustainability issues including:
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What we are hearing and not hearing from the presidential candidates about the nation's fiscal health.
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How the next president can lead the country out of our $53 trillion fiscal hole.
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It's not just mortgages Washington has a “super sub-prime problem,” too.
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Why Americans must quit following the bad example of their federal government by increasing their savings and reducing their relative debt burdens.
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The need for fiscal literacy in America
Tickets for this event are $25.00 and include a continental breakfast. CPE credit hours are being offered at this event.
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 President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Hon. David M. Walker is charged with leading the Foundation’s efforts to: enhance public understanding of the nature and urgency of selected key sustainability challenges that threaten America’s future; propose sensible and workable solutions to address these challenges; and build public and political will to do something about them. This includes efforts in connection with fiscal, entitlement, health care, energy, education, and non-proliferation issues.
Prior to joining the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Mr. Walker served over nine years as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). During his tenure as Comptroller General, he led a major transformation effort at the GAO and within the accountability profession both domestically and internationally. As Comptroller General, Walker was also an outspoken and non-partisan advocate for addressing the major fiscal and other national sustainability and government transformation challenges facing the United States.
Mr. Walker is a certified public accountant. He has a B.S. degree in accounting from Jacksonville University and a Senior Management in Government Certificate in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has honorary doctorate degrees from several colleges and universities, including his alma mater and The American University.
Mr. Walker has authored two books and has written numerous articles and opinion letters on a variety of subjects. He is a periodic television and radio commentator and is frequently quoted on a range of public policy and government transformation issues.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation
The mission of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is to enhance the public understanding of the nature and urgency of selected key sustainability challenges that threaten America’s future, to propose sensible and workable solutions to address these challenges and to build public will to do something about them. |
