Please recommend 2 lecturers/professors to speak in the Fall 2009 GIC Lecture Series. The Professors can be from but not limited to the Business School, Econ Department, PolSci Department, Public Policy School. Please include the faculty profile and reasons why we should include this speaker in our Lecture Series. The GIC Executive Board will contact the [...]

On March 26, The Bank of England failed to auction off 1.75 billion pounds of 40-year gilts (the English name for government bonds). This is the first time since 2002 that the Central Bank of England didn’t find enough buyers for its government debt.
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0UwOQfUC.jw#
So why couldn’t the UK government attract enough bids for the [...]