In his remarks in this building in 1937, President Roosevelt described as our purpose "to gain for all of our people the greatest attainable measure of economic well-being, the largest degree of economic security and stability."
At this year’s conference, we are going to discuss a topic that has been foremost on our minds for the past nine months: “Economic and monetary policy under wartime conditions.” Since February 24 of this year, we have been witnessing something that used to be unimaginable over the past decades: outright war in Europe.