Professor Kurt Eggert was invited to speak at the 7th Annual Alberta Conference on Gambling Research held at Banff, Canada, co-sponsored by the Alberta Gaming Research Institute and the University of Alberta.  Profofessor Eggert gave a presentation entitled: Improving Consumer Protection in the Gambling Industry.

Professor Kurt Eggert also had a sound-bite in a story that appeared on “Marketplace,” from American Public Radio, about Treasury’s new plans to reorganize the nation’s financial regulators. Listen to story…

Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted a story in the Macon Telegraph on fixing the mortgage mess. “The big question is how many real loan modifications are happening, and I don’t think they know,” said Kurt Eggert, a professor at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange, Calif., and a member of a Federal Reserve consumer advisory board. “How can you say you are on top of the problem if you don’t know how broadly the ‘best solution’ is being applied?” Read story…

Additionally, Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Orange County Register in a piece entitled “Report blasts New Century, KPMG.” He stated, “We had appraisers over-appraising the values of houses…. We had people who were supposed to check underwriting standards fail to check, and every step of the way people who were supposed to be the ones making sure the system worked didn’t do their job.” Read article…