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Come and get ‘em – free tickets for I.O.U.S.A

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Futures magazine has five pairs of free tickets to see the premier of I.O.U.S.A. on August 21 at the Evanston 18. The show time is 7 p.m.

This should be quite an event. As much as I’m looking forward to the movie, the live round table discussion that follows should be just as entertaining. Participants will include Warren Buffett; William Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute; Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP; Pete Peterson; and Dave Walker, president & CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former U.S. comptroller general. The panel will be moderated by Becky Quick, co-anchor of CNBC’s morning news show Squawk Box.

To claim your tickets, simply send me an e-mail at cmcmahon@futuresmag.com; include your name and a phone number and FREE TICKETS in the header. To claim your tickets, you will need to pick them up in person at the theater no less than 20 minutes prior to showtime.

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I.O.U.S.A.: Documentary or horror flick?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Until you hear the urgency in Addison Wiggin’s voice, you may not think that our $8.9 trillion national debt is an obvious topic for a film documentary, but you may leave the conversation convinced it’s a great subject for a horror flick.

The movie I.O.U.S.A., opening Aug. 21, follows Dave Walker, former U.S. comptroller general, and Concord Coalition Founder Robert L. Bixby on their Fiscal Wake Up Tour. For 18 months, at Rotary Clubs, Better Business Bureau luncheons and town hall meetings, they discussed the national debt, its implications and possible solutions to the looming economic danger that threatens the United States. The film also features interviews with “the Mount Rushmore crowd of American economics,” including former Federal Reserve Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Paul Volker, and former Treasury secretaries Paul O’Neil and Bob Rubin as well as Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world’s wealthiest men, to tell the story. “We have the guys who are responsible for the Federal Reserve and heading up budget committees in Congress, and the former Treasury secretaries,” but it’s not just charts and figures, Wiggin says.

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