Windows on the Web: Watching NABE

By Bruce Kratofil
NABE Webmaster

It’s becoming easier to watch NABE activities, even if you aren’t there in person. We’ve consolidated much of this coverage on the NABE TV page.

NABE TV

For the second year in a row, Convention News Television was at the NABE Policy Conference to provide coverage. The CNTV crew, sponsored by the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Competitiveness, mixed coverage of the sessions with interviews of both NABE members and presenters. You can watch the coverage via the embedded video player on the NABE TV page, selecting the video you want in the right-hand column. Many of the videos are also available at the BusinessEcon channel at YouTube.

C-SPAN

Also at the 2010 meeting was C-SPAN, which televised five sessions at the meeting.  Coincidentally, C-SPAN has also placed its entire video archive online.  We’ve searched its archive and found many of the past sessions from previous Policy Conferences and Annual Meetings where the cable network taped sessions.

One memorable session online is from the 1998 NABE Annual Meeting, when Alan Greenspan gave a speech on risks in the financial system. We had the transcript of the speech online the next day, and set a website record for page views that stood for many years.

More recently, C-SPAN was at the 2008 Annual Meeting, which took place right after the Lehman Brothers collapse in the midst of the financial panic.  The network recorded Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s closing speech, the session by Nobel Laureates Edmund Phelps and Paul Krugman (technically, he was a laureate-to-be when the session was held), Ellen Hughes-Cromwick’s Presidential Address, and a panel discussion on the rapidly changing economic outlook.

And Finally….

If you go over to YouTube to watch any of the NABE videos, you may also want to check out "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem. It’s a production of Econstories.tv from creative director John Papola and creative economist Russ Roberts. It’s definitely the best Economics rock video since the R. Glenn Hubbard/Police inspired “Every Breath You Take”

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