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Former Federal Reserve official to speak about financial crisis

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Kevin Warsh, the former chief liaison to Wall Street for the Federal Reserve System, is scheduled to be at the University of Illinois on Monday (March 12) to give a talk about the financial crisis.

Warsh, who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2011, will give a speech titled “Tough Calls: An Insider’s Account of the Financial Crisis.”

The event, free and open to the public, is to begin at 4 p.m. and is sponsored by Busey Wealth Management and by the Center for Business and Public Policy, a unit of the College of Business at Illinois.

The event will be in the Deloitte Auditorium of the Business and Instructional Facility, 515 E. Gregory Drive, Champaign.

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