Forecasters Club of New York Past Speakers

Past Speakers

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
7/9/25 Glenn Hubbard Columbia University Considering Uncertainty in the Economic Outlook
4/30/25 Daniel Rock University of Pennsylvania Measuring AI’s Potential for the Labor Market
2/26/25 Jeremy Rudd Federal Reserve Board The Sorry State of (Macro)economics
1/30/254 Robert Kahn Eurasia Group Navigating Geopolitical Risk In 2025—Forecasting In A G-  Zero World
12/10/24 Melissa Pumphrey New York City Economic Development Corporation Using NYC Economic Data to Build a Robust, Inclusive City Economy
10/30/24 Joseph Gagnon Peterson Institute for International Economics Understanding COVID-Era Inflation both Across Countries and in Historical Perspective
10/2/24 Douglas Holtz-Eakin American Action Forum The Outlook for Pro-Growth Fiscal Consolidation
6/26/24 William B English Yale School of Management Six Lessons from the Post-Pandemic Inflation and the Monetary Policy Response
4/24/24 Viral Acharya NYU Where Do Banks End and NBFIs Begin?
3/27/24 Wenxin Du Columbia Business School Quantitative Tightening Around the Globe:  What Have We Learned?
2/28/24 Anna Kovner Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Financial Stability Outlook
1/25/24 Athanasios Orphanides MIT The Forward Guidance Trap
12/14/23 Andrew Levin Dartmouth University Central Bank Undersight: Assessing the Fed’s Accountability to Congress
11/2/23 Dave Wasshausen Bureau of Economic Analysis Comprehensive Revision of BEA’s Economic Accounts
10/26/23 Michael Horrigann Upjohn Institute Projecting Lithium-ion Battery Production and Workforce Needs over the Next Decade.”
10/2/23 Michael S Barr Federal Reserve Board Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
6/28/23 Linda Goldberg Federal Reserve Bank of New York International Roles of the US Dollar
4/12/23 Nela Richardson ADP Understanding Today’s Labor Market
3/21/23 Lisa Lynch Brandeis University Sorting Fact from Fiction in Today’s ‘Hot’ Labor
2/28/23 Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University The Fed’s Disinflation Challenge
1/25/23 Darrell Duffie Stanford University Fragmenting Markets:  Post-Crisis Bank Regulations & Financial Market Liquidity”
1/24/23 Lou Crandall Wrightson ICAP The Fed’s Balance Sheet and Money Market Dynamics
12/15/22 Laurence Ball Johns Hopkins University Understanding U.S. Inflation During the COVID Era
10/27/22 Ray Fair Yale University Predicting the House and Senate Elections
10/6/22 J. Steven Landefeld Former Director of BEA An overview of GDP measurement issues, GDP vs GDI, natural resources and environmental accounting, and the transformation of retail sales into PCE
6/29/22 John Duncan Meridian Research Group How Balkanization Is Shaping Washington Policy Making & What It Means For the Agenda Going Forward
4/27/22 Bart van Ark The Productivity Institute Productivity Growth Post Covid-19:  Can It Rescue the Recovery?
3/30/22 Frank Nothaft CoreLogic Residential Outlook:  Will supply shocks & interest rate hikes derail housing and home-mortgage activity?
2/23/22 Elaine Buckberg General Motors Auto Industry Update
1/27/22 Ellen Meade Federal Reserve Board, retired A Fireside Chat — “Reflections on FOMC Communications
12/17/21 Christopher Waller Federal Reserve Board A View from the Federal Reserve
10/14/21 Tom Barkin Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Talking about Outcomes
9/29/21 Ray Fair Yale University What Do Price Equations Say About Future Inflation?
4/19/21 Mark Doms Congressional Budget Office An Overview of the 2021 long-Term Budget Outlook
3/9/21 David Wasserman The Cook Political Report Forecasting Elections After 2020
2/11/21 James H. Stock Harvard University Macroeconomic Co-movements During (and After?) the Pandemic
1/29/21 Robert Kaplan Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Conditions & the Path of Monetary Policy
10/20/20 Louise Sheiner Brookings Institution The Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure and the Outlook for Fiscal Policy
9/24/20 Jenny Childs, Cathy Buffington and Lucia Foster US Census Bureau Census Pulse Surveys and the Future for High Frequency Data Collection
6/24/20 Nellie Liang Brookings Institution Financial Stability and the Macro Economy
3/18/20 Richard Curtin University of Michigan Economic Expectations:  A New Comprehensive Theory”
2/26/20 Phillip Swagel Congressional Budget Office The Budget and Economic Outlook
1/23/20 Crystal Konny Bureau of Labor Statistics Big Data in the Consumer Price Index: Experiences & Plans
12/17/19 Eric Rosengren Federal Reserve Bank of Boston The Economic Outlook
10/22/19 Thea Lee Economic Policy Institute A Progressive Economic Policy Agenda for 2020
9/25/19 Samm Saks New America US-China relations: Technology Policy & the Huawei Roadmap
6/26/19 Mary C. Daly Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Dual Mandate in a Flat Phillips Curve Environment
4/24/19 David W. Wilcox Federal Reserve Board retired Okun Revisited: Who Benefits Most From a Strong Economy?
3/27/19 David E. Altig Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Goldilocks is here, where are the bears?
2/27/19 Douglas A Irwin Dartmouth College What to Make of Trump’s Trade Policy
12/13/18 Pete Davis Davis Capital Investment Ideas How Washington Affects Wall Street Forecasts
10/24/18 Loretta J. Mester Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland A conversation with President Mester
9/25/18 Adam S. Posen Peterson Institute for International Economics Long-Term Effects of the Post-American World Economy

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