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Milken Institute 2012
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Walking around the halls or sitting in on the panels, you’ll hear talk about “soft patches” and “slow motion recovery.” Not from John Rogers Jr., founder and CEO of Ariel Investments: “I’m very, very enthusiastic about the markets."
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It’s become an annual ritual at the Milken Institute Global Conference: Nouriel Roubini faces off with Michael Milken. Milken is perpetually bullish on America, confident that our challenges can be overcome through innovation and market processes.
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At a morning Milken Institute Global Conference panel on the overview for the United States economy, Milken Institute chief research officer Ross DeVol asked panelists whether “bond market vigilantes” would force up US interest rates in reaction to the federal government’s budget deficit.
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"Our strategy is based on a lackluster recovery. So we are assuming it will be a lackluster economy, Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian tells CNBC's Closing Bell.
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A New York City tech start-up just made a connection with a Paris fund that does a lot of Indian investment. Will anything come of it? Who knows. But it is this sort of thing, people from very different corners of the tech and finance world coming together, that makes the global conference so fascinating.
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The array of people — from finance guys, to school teachers, to film producers, to specialists in aging well, to government officials (foreign and domestic) — is really extraordinary.
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At a morning Milken Institute Global Conference panel on the overview for the United States economy, Milken Institute chief research officer Ross DeVol asked panelists whether “bond market vigilantes” would force up US interest rates in reaction to the federal government’s budget deficit.
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In a decided bullish panel on commodities at the Milken Institute Global Conference, one area of bearishness stuck out: gold.
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Texas oil and gas investor T. Boone Pickens has a warning for Pennsylvania now that it is subsidizing Delta Air Lines's purchase of a gas refinery: Keep your wallet handy.
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The U.S. isn't going back into a recession, though economic growth has slowed, Goldman Sach's chief equity strategist Abby Joseph Cohen told CNBC Monday.
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One of the hottest topics at this year's Milken Institute Global Conference is bound to be the Facebook IPO.
Related Milken Conference Topics
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The grass really is greener on the other side of the fence in some places around the country. Here's where the biggest wealth gaps exist.
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Some nations around the globe are in considerably worse debt positions than others. Here are nations with the world's greatest debts.
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Fears are growing that rising gasoline prices could stifle economic recovery. Those rising gasoline prices are becoming a subject of hot political debate in a presidential election year. Geopolitics is behind the rising prices, most noticeably due to the increasing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
Videos
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PIMCO's Bill Gross discusses bonds, the Federal Reserve and the banking industry, with CNBC's Brian Sullivan and Amanda Drury.
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Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president, and Dennis Lockhart, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president, speak with CNBC's Steve Liesman on monetary policy.
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CNBC's Maria Bartiromo speaks to T. Boone Pickens, BP Capital founder and CEO, about Delta's deal to buy a ConocoPhillips' refinery and whether investors should steer clear of Chesapeake Energy right now.
Slideshows
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Some prefer a modest place to call home, belying their rock-star-nerd status. But others have splurged, showing it really pays to be a geek after all.
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With the most recent data from the Energy Information Administration and the CIA World Factbook, here are the countries with the biggest proven oil reserves.
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When foreclosures were fast and furious, some cities experienced more than their share of the pain. Check out which American cities made this year’s list of the top 10 turnaround towns.
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Throughout the financial crisis, large debt loads weighed on company balance sheets and had serious implications for many firms. Others are debt free and cash rich...like these 15 companies.
