When I asked him after the press conference (where nearly all questions particularly by foreign press were directed at Soros) if I could speak to him, he quickly told me that unless it was to discuss the new CIGI-INET partnership, no he would not be talking to press.

FORBES: Blackberry Billionaire Outspoken at Davos

INET-CIGI plans to holds its first joint conference at the new CIGI campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

FORBES: Blackberry Billionaire Outspoken at Davos

Markus Brunnermeier of Princeton University, who is on INET's advisory board, is trying to incorporate a richer model of financial breakdowns into a fairly standard macroeconomic model with the help of Yuliy Sannikov of the University of California, Berkeley.

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