Past Events

Join us on March 12, 2024, 12 – 1 p.m. (EDT) for this virtual event. Learn about how institutional, political, and legal pressures come into play when a country cannot repay its debts. This talk will offer a deeper understanding of how global financial capitalism functions in the context of debt markets, international finance, international relations, and international law.

Join us on March 19, 2024, 12 – 1 p.m. (EDT) for this virtual event. Investors who neglect to study the past can overlook powerful, cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape markets. Gain a glimpse of how understanding financial history can improve investment decision-making

Join us on March 26, 2024, 12 – 1 p.m. (EDT) for this virtual event. Milton Friedman’s work was instrumental in the turn toward free markets that defined the 1980s. Burns sheds light on his collaborations with women, his complex relationships with Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Treasury Secretary George Shultz, and his direct interventions in policymaking at the highest levels.

Join us on April 3, 2024, 12 – 1 p.m. (EDT) for this virtual event. Daniel Schulman’s sweeping narrative traces the interconnected stories of Jewish immigrants including Joseph Seligman, Solomon Loeb, and Marcus Goldman, among others, who fled a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. He chronicles the difficult path of these men who would go on to form some of the largest investment banks in the world.

Join us on April 16, 2024, 5:30 – 7 p.m. (EDT) for this in-person event. McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham University – Lincoln Center Campus, 140 West 62nd Street. Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” and Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, will discuss Zakaria’s new book. A major work that masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world.

Join us for a virtual event with Dr. George Athanassakos, founder and managing director of The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Ivey Business School. In his presentation

Financial thought leader and Research Affiliates’ Founder Rob Arnott identifies major market myths—on inflation, value investing and the supposedly passive nature of index funds

Join us on September 7, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. in the McNally Amphitheatre on Fordham University’s LC Campus for a fireside chat with Leon Cooperman, Founder, Omega Family Office; and Mario Gabelli, GABELLI ’65, Chairman and CEO, GAMCO Investors.

Join us for a virtual program with award-winning financial journalist Diana Henriques on her latest book, Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism.