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BOB HAHN: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming today. My name is Bob Hahn. I direct the AEI-Brookings Joint Center and on behalf of Strobe Talbott, Chris Demieux, Bob Litan who you'll hear from shortly, my co-conspirator, I'd like to welcome you here for this special event.
I promised that I would keep my remarks short, in part because our speaker is known for his energized remarks and I want to give him ample time to speak today. Also we wanted to allow ample time for you to ask questions.
Before I turn things over to Bob Litan to introduce our speaker I wanted to think Aaron Layburn, Ron Nessen and Adrianna Pita for putting in extra effort today to make this event a success.
I also wanted to leave you with two words in the spirit of The Graduate. Blue card. If you open up the packets that you collected on your way in you'll see a blue card. If you fill out that card you can be added to our e-mail service. If you don't, I won't go there. But for those of you who do, you can get the inside scoop on a number of important regulatory issues and antitrust issues that the Joint Center addresses including our events as well as some of our books.
For example we have an upcoming event to deconstruct USV Microsoft that will occur in early December. Next week we'll be hearing from one of the brightest individuals in the world who will deliver the Joint Center Distinguished Lecture, that's Judge Posner. In addition we have several books in press, one on antitrust over the last decade in which Microsoft will play a small role. A second on government policy towards open-source software.
Of course if you don't suffer from problems with insomnia but rather have trouble staying awake, Joint Center books can still help and we have a barn-burner coming out by none other than Bob Litan and three of his close friends entitled "Follow the Money: Corporate Disclosure After Enron". Bob tells me that he's expecting to retire based on the royalties that he's going to get from the free downloads of the book.
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