Direct Stock Market to Webcast Milken Institute 2000 Global Conference.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 Internet Webcast coverage of the Milken Institute 2000 Global Conference, one of the nation's most influential gatherings of international economic and business experts, will be provided by Direct Stock Market Inc. (www.dsm.com). Coverage will begin March 8 at 8 p.m. (PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT ) with a live Internet Webcast of the conference's opening program featuring Nobel Laureates Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. Kenneth Arrow Kenneth Joseph "Ken" Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972, and the youngest person ever to receive this award, at 51. , Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. ; Gary Becker, University of Chicago; James Buchanan, George Mason University; and Lawrence Klein, University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . Moderator will be Michael Milken Michael Milken As an executive at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. during the 1980s, Milken used high-yield junk bonds for financing and corporate takeovers. While his personal wealth was enormous, he spent two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of securities fraud. , chairman of the Milken Institute. DSM said it will also tape portions of the conference's March 9-10 sessions, with coverage available for viewing at DSM's Web site at a later date. Those interested in viewing the free, live coverage of the March 8 opening program should point their browsers to www.dsm.com/milken for free registration. The Milken Institute 2000 Global Conference, held in Los Angeles, will take a long-term, structural look at those factors affecting the economies, financial markets and societies of the world. The conference features nine Nobel Laureates in Economic Science, and more than 100 speakers. It offers a detailed look at the major economic, financial, business, technological and policy issues facing the world in the coming year. "The Milken Institute Global Conference is a major gathering of some of the world's leading business, finance, economic and public policy experts," said Donald Straszheim, President of the Institute. "It is of interest to people across the globe, so we are delighted that those unable to attend the conference in person will be able to watch and listen to it thanks to Direct Stock Market and its Internet Webcast." Other Nobel Laureates scheduled to speak at the conference include Franco Modigliani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, ; John Nash, Princeton University; Douglass North, Washington University (St. Louis); Myron Scholes, Stanford University; and Reinhard Selten, University of Bonn The University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in 1818 the University of Bonn is nowadays one of the largest universities in Germany. . About Direct Stock Market Direct Stock Market (www.dsm.com), with headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., is an Internet-based financial marketplace for public offerings and private placements. DSM's advanced technologies drive Internet capital formation for early stage companies. DSM is the No. 1 online community for active investors seeking emerging-growth company investment opportunities. About The Milken Institute The Milken Institute (www.milken-inst.org/) is a non-profit economic think-tank focusing on four areas of research: the global economy; capital markets and financial institutions; the role of education and human capital; and regional economics and demographics. The goal of the Institute is to create a more informed public, more thoughtful policy-making pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: and improved economic conditions. |
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