May 23 Dialogue To Focus on Household Financial Stability

St. LOUIS - The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will present "After the Fall: Rebuilding Family Balance Sheets, Rebuilding the Economy," as part of its next Dialogue with the Fed: Beyond Today's Financial Headlines evening lecture series on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

The presentation will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. Central Time in the St. Louis Fed's Gateway Conference Center Auditorium. It will be webcast live at stlouisfed.org/live.

Ray Boshara, senior adviser and director of the St. Louis Fed's Center for Household Financial Stability and William Emmons, assistant vice president and the Center's chief economist, will explore the lingering damage to household financial stability caused by the Great Recession of 2007-2009. They will examine why some families are recovering faster than others and how the financial health of every family matters for the macro-economic performance and stability of the entire country.

The "Dialogue with the Fed" series was launched in the fall of 2011 to address the key economic and financial issues of the day, and to provide the opportunity to ask questions of Fed experts. The discussions are free and open to the public.