Outspoken Banking Insider to Speak at B-W
 Walker F. Todd |
Walker F. Todd, an outspoken banking insider who raised an early red flag about the oversight of dubious lending practices and the threat to U.S. taxpayers, will make an appearance at Baldwin-Wallace College on Wednesday, October 26 at 8 p.m. Todd's lecture, made possible by B-W's Buckhorn Chair in Economics, is titled "The U.S. Financial Crisis: Causes and Cures" and will take place in the Quarry Room, Strosacker Hall. His talk is free and open to the public.
Todd worked as a legal officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a legal and research officer at the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank for many years. He notably raised questions with his superiors in Washington about an obscure legal amendment that expanded the Fed’s ability to rescue troubled financial institutions, dramatically increasing the exposure of the U.S. taxpayer to institutional failures. Officials even tried to stop publication of a paper outlining the dangers.
Todd currently serves as a research fellow and conference organizer for the American Institute for Economic Research and lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He is an attorney admitted to practice in Ohio and New York. In addition to his work as an economic consultant, he has been an instructor at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, since 1997. A director and program organizer for the Committee for Monetary Research and Education, Todd was an adjunct faculty member of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, for 13 years. He holds a Ph.D. in French from Columbia University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
Todd has authored numerous publications on banking, central banking, monetary and property rights topics, including those related to international debt, the International Monetary Fund, and the regulation of the banking system and financial markets.
For more information or directions, please call (440) 826-2325.