Appeared on April 27, 2009
William Poole, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will give the keynote address for the 27th annual Monetary and Trade Conference at Drexel University Thursday at 11:15 a.m. His topic will be “Saying Good-bye to Too Big to Fail,” referring to the phrase we’ve all heard far too often over the last year. The conference, which is jointly sponsored by the Global Interdependence Center and Drexel’s LeBow College of Business, will present several other speeches with suitably gloomy titles, such as “Searching for a Bottom” and “Creative Destruction in the Banking Industry: What’s Left and What’s Next.”