On the 7 p.m. of Sep. 21^st , the second lecture of “Second Class”, organized by Association for Science and Technology under the Communist Youth League of Tsinghua SEM, was held at the International Report Hall of Weilun Building. The 74-year-old Professor Zhao Jiahe, the former Associate Dean of Tsinghua SEM and the first Chairman of Department of Finance, made a lecture titled “Decryption of American Financial Crisis – from 2001 to 2008”, in view of the world’s hot topic – the current financial turmoil in the United States.

Despite the heavy rainfall that night, it still could not stop the students attending the lecture and listening to the voice of wisdom. The Report Hall was all packed with students. The audiences consisted of freshmen and sophomores just acquainting themselves with finance, MBA students returning to school from the society, and other universities’ students coming for the fame of the professor as well.

During his lecture, Professor Zhao Jiahe carried out an in-depth analysis on the process, causes, effects and etc. of the American financial turmoil caused by subprime lending crisis, and also viewed the role of the new rescue package plan proposed by the U.S. government. The whole lecture was closely related to the pulse of the times and explained the profound things in a simple way. After the lecture, Professor Zhao Jiahe gave earnest answers to the issues raised by the present audiences.