Past Speakers/Topics

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William Beach, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Role of Global Forces in Shaping the U.S. Labor Force”

Amir Sufi, Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, “Low Interest Rates, Market Power, Productivity Growth”

Carl Tannenbaum, Chief Economist, Northern Trust and Anthony Chan, Chief Economist, JP Morgan Chase, “The State of Capitalism”

Francois Velde, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Digital Currencies and Bitcoin”

Scott Brave, Policy Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “A Closer Look at the Chicago Fed Activity Indexes and Their Forecasting Applications”

Erica Groshen, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Big Data and Government”

Chris Mier, Chief Strategist, Loop Capital, “Interest Rates from a Bond Guy’s Perspective”

John Silvia, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo, “Evolution of the Credit Cycle”

Bob Dieli, Chief Economist, RLB/No Spin Forecast, “Applied Research on the Business Cycle”

Lindsey Piegza, Chief Economist, Stifel, “Economic Outlook”

Bill Strauss, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Automotive Industry Symposium”

Robert Johnson, Director of Economic Analysis, Morningstar, “U.S. Consumers: Losing Interest, or Just Bad Weather Got Them Down?”

Dona Wong, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “Data Visualization”

Phillipe D’Arvisenet, Chief Economist, BNP Paribas, “European Economic Outlook”

Steve Landefeld, Director, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, “Lessons from the Financial Crisis”

Casey Mulligan, Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago, “Redistribution Recession”

Mark Wright, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Sovereign Debt”

Paul Kasriel, Chief Economist, Northern Trust, “Not All Credit is Created Equal”

Bluford Putnam, Chief Economist, CME Group, “Global Economic Divergence”

Chad Moutray, Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers, “Manufacturing Update”

Ken Simonson, Chief Economist, Associated General Contractors of America, “Construction Outlook”

William Wiatrowski, Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Changing Nature of Benefits”

Adolfo Laurenti, Deputy Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial (Presently Principal European Economist, VISA), “Global Economic Outlook”

Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics, “The Business Cycle Turns Up”

Jean Daniel Gerber, Swiss Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, “The New Normal”

William Testa, VP/Director of Regional Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Chicago Economy”

Edward Sullivan, Chief Economist, Portland Cement Association, “Construction Outlook”

Michael Horrigan, Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Consumer, Producer and Import/Export Prices: Currect Trends & Debunking Myths”

Asha Bangalore, Senior Vice President, Northern Trust, “The U.S. Economy: A View from the Crow’s Nest”

David Oser, Executive Vice President & Chief Economist, Shorebank, “Local Economics: A View from the Trenches”

Keith Hall, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “What Our Measures Tell Us About the Recession”

Leila Butt, Senior Economist, Economist Intelligence Unit, “Global Economic Outlook”

Carl Tannenbaum, Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, (Now at Northern Trust), “State of Credit & Banking”

Chris Varvares, President, Macroeconomic Advisors & President, National Association for Business Economics, “How Severe a Recession”

Diane Swonk, Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial, (Now at Grant Thornton), “Economic Outlook”

Nancy Nielsen, MD, President, American Medical Association, “The AMA Plan for Health System Reform”

Thomas Klier, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Restructuring in the Auto Industry”

Michele Gambera, Chief Economist, Ibbotson, (Now at UBS), “Economic Outlook”

Rick Mattoon, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Higher Ed & Regional Economies”

David Wyss, Chief Economist, S&P, (Now at Brown University), “They’re Called Subprime for a Reason”