WHO: Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University

Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at Penn's Wharton School

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director of the Congressional Budget Office and professor of economics at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University

WHAT: "Domestic and Foreign Deficits of the United States: Are They a Problem?"

WHEN: Friday, April 16, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

WHERE:  Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 33rd and Spruce streets

The 24th annual Economics Day at Penn will feature three of the country's leading economists in a discussion about U.S domestic and foreign deficits.  Lawrence Klein, professor emeritus of economics at Penn, will moderate the discussion.

The event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by Penn's Department of Economics and the Penn Institute for Economic Research with support from the W.P. Carey Foundation.