With the stock market in meltdown, a $700 billion government rescue plan now made law, Fannie and Freddie in conservatorship, government bailouts, bank failures, the subprime mortgage fallout, rising defaults on home loans, and declining home prices, just where is the economy headed and what will be the impact on the real estate market as daily shockwaves hit an economy already under siege?

Join C.A.R. Vice President and Chief Economist Leslie Appleton-Young and a panel of renowned economists as the experts weigh in on these and other critical issues during “The Financial Crisis: What Lies Ahead?,” at CALIFORNIA REALTOR® EXPO 2008, Thursday, Oct. 16, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

This session has been moved to a new location and now will be held in the Grand Ballroom at the Long Beach Convention Center.

Panelists include Richard Green, director and chair of Lusk Center for Real Estate; Nancy Dayton Sidhu, vice president and senior economist, Kyser Center for Economic Research; and Stuart Gabriel, Arden Realty Chair and Professor of Finance and Director of the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA.

Appleton-Young will serve as the panel moderator.  If you would like to submit a question to the panel, please e-mail paulag@car.org.

For more information about EXPO or to register online, please go to www.realtorexpo.org.