Jesse Nadel of Quinnipiac University Wins Most Thoughtful Question Award
On Thursday night (11/19) Gene Epstein, economics editor at Barron’s magazine, was the featured speaker at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His topic: The Meltdown of 2008—Market Failure or Government Failure? The program was produced by the Ridgefield Liberty Cooperative and sponsored by People’s United Bank Wealth Management & Trust and others who are identified below.
The program was unique in a number of ways. You can see pre-program publicity and a description of the program’s features here: general description; flyer for students; and the panel of judges.
To promote school participation, we offered a $1,000 prize to the student who submitted the most thoughtful question (as determined by the panel of judges). In addition, the student-authors of the five most thoughtful questions presented their questions to Mr. Epstein at the program and had the opportunity to ask follow-up questions. The program included a pre-determined “Interrogator,” economist John Scarbrough of Ridgefield, to jump in and ask follow-up questions when the Interrogator determined a need to clarify or challenge a point.
The question and answer period was moderated by Dr. Dan Joynt, Professor of Mediation and Arbitration at Western Connecticut State University.
When we have had a chance to edit the video of the event we plan to post it here.
You can see the top five student questions here. The winning question was Question 1006 by Jesse Nadel of Quinnipiac University.
Other sponsors of the program were Raymond James Financial Services (Frank J. Gavel Jr. and Charlie D. Meade); Bernstein Global Wealth Management (Daniel Romanow); Chipman, Mazzucco, Land & Pennarola, LLC; Actis-Grande Ronan & Company LLC, Certified Public Accountants; Fairfield County Bank Insurance Services(formerly Carnall Insurance); Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (Charles Salup); J.L. Pierson, ASA, Business Valuation; and David Streit.
where is Epstein’s response to question 1006 posted?
We hope to have the some of the video posted before the end of the day on Friday 11/27. We will try to post the rest as soon as possible.