A panel of economic experts and local business people will take part in a discussion this evening in New Albany to help people sort out all the facts related to the nation's financial crisis.It's sponsored by Indiana University Southeast. Business professor Brenda Swartz says some people are understandably bewildered by the developments of the past several weeks."From the time we conceptualized this, the situation has changed some. So we're going to try to keep abreast of it, and I imagine it's going to be a contiuing situation to follow. certainly I'm sure my next version of my economics book will have some of this mentioned," Swartz said.The free event begins at 4:00pm at IUS.
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