Forecasters Club of New York Past Speakers Archive

Past Speakers Archive

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
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
6/20/18 William Frey Greenwich Financial Services RMBS: What happened and has it been fixed?
4/25/18 Jason Furman Harvard University/Peterson Institute for International Economics America’s Economic Potential: What Is It and How Much Can We Change It
3/28/18 Catherine L. Mann Citi The Big Disconnect: Financial & Real Perspectives and Prospects
2/28/18 Erica Groshen Cornell University & Former Commissioner BLS Things Learned at BLS: Updates, Opportunities and Challenges
1/24/18 Nathan Sheets PGIM Fixed Income Global Prospects for 2018 and Beyond
12/14/17 William B. English Yale University Forward Guidance, Past, Present, and Future
10/25/17 Wilbert van der Klaauw Federal Reserve Bank of New York Recent Trends in Household Debt
10/5/17 Dr. Jim Walker Asianomics China: The Bull Among Us
6/28/17 John G. Fernald Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Disappointing Recovery in Output after 2009
4/26/17 Francois Haas Banque de France The Euro at 25: An Assessment
3/29/17 John C. Williams Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco From Sustained Recovery to Sustainable Growth: What a Difference Four Years Makes
2/22/17 Jerome H. Powell Federal Reserve Board The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy
1/12/17 James Bullard Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco of St. Louis U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy
12/16/16 Thomas Laubach Federal Reserve Board Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest: International Trends and Determinants
11/2/16 Eli Remolona Bank for International Settlements A View from Asia
9/28/16 Alan B. Krueger Princeton University Where have all the workers gone?”
6/29/16 Keith Hall Congressional Budget Office The 2016 Budget Outlook
4/28/16 Edwin M. Truman Peterson Institute for International Economics Thoughts on Exchange Rates
3/30/16 Charles L. Evans Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Update
2/24/16 Karen Dynan U.S. Department of the Treasury Personal Saving and Public Policy
1/28/16 Jon Faust Johns Hopkins University Forecasting in a World of Disparate Confounding Dynamics
12/17/15 Paul Romer New York University The Trouble with Macroeconomics
10/27/15 Paul J. Markowski MES/Falconridge Advisers China’s Latest Growing Pains: Making the Shift to a New
9/1/15 Eric Rosengren Federal Reserve Bank of Boston U.S. Economic Outlook
6/30/15 Charles Collyns Institute of International Finance Global Divergences and Implications for EM Capital Flows
4/16/15 Loretta J. Mester Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland The Economic Outlook and Economic Policy
3/25/15 Richard H. Clarida Columbia University Outlook for the Economy and the Fed: Is It Time for Some Unconventional Wisdom?
2/25/15 William Wascher Federal Reserve Board Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects
1/22/15 Athanasios Orphanides MIT Sloan School of Management The Politics and the Euro Area Crisis and the ECB
12/18/14 Martin Goodfriend Carneigie Mellon Tepper School of Business Monetary Policy as a Carry Trade and Related Issues
10/30/14 Adam Posen Peterson Institute for International Economics Five Capitals- Berlin, Brussels, London, Tokyo and Washington – and Their Differences on Economics
10/1/14 Richard Ravitch ? Will There Be More Detroits?
6/25/14 Peter Fisher Dartmouth/ BlackRock What Now: Normalization or New Regime?
4/24/14 Stephen G. Cecchetti Brandeis International Business School Regulatory Reforms: A Report From the Front Lines
3/26/14 Rajeev Dhawan Georgia State University Economic Outlook from the Perspective of a Forecaster
2/26/14 William Poole Cato Institute Federal Reserve Mistakes Before and During the Crisis
1/30/14 Brian Sack D.E. Shaw Monetary Policy with Abundant Liquidity: A New Operating Framework for the Fed
12/19/13 Steve Oliner American Enterprise Institute Is the Information Technology Revolution Over?
10/31/13 Sun Yu China Confidential China’s Rural Land Reform
10/15/13 Salvatore Rossi Bank of Italy Italy and the Eurosystem: Fiscal Discipline, Growth and Financial Stability
9/26/13 Tobias Adrian Federal Reserve Bank of New York A Framework for Financial Stability Monitoring with an Application to the recent Bond Market Selloff
6/27/13 Martin Bally Brookings Institution Dodd-Frank: What’s Working and What’s Not Working
4/24/13 Morano Bertoldi European Commission The EU Economy: Gradually Overcoming Headwinds?
3/27/13 Simon M. Potter Federal Reserve Bank of New York Implementation of Current Asset Purchases
2/21/13 John C. Williams Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Monetary Policy and the Economy
1/29/13 Adam Lerrick American Enterprise Institute Europe’s Default in Credibility
1/9/13 Shuji Kobayakawa Bank of Japan Japanese Monetary Policy: Unconventional Measures
12/13/12 Stephen T. Parents University of Minnesota Now What? Health Reform After 2012
9/27/12 Pieter Bottellar John Hopkins University China’s Financial Reforms and Economic Rebalancing Efforts
6/27/12 Allan Meltzer Carneige Mellon University What ‘s Wrong With the Fed and How to Fix It
4/26/12 Edwin Truman Peterson Institute for International Economics Whither the Euro Crisis?
3/28/12 Peter Diamond MIT Unemployment and Debt
2/29/12 Charles Plosser Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia A Perspective on Forecasting
1/26/12 Alice M. Rivlin Brookings Institution Jobs, Debt and Political Gridlock
12/14/11 Robert H. Frank Cornell University Getting the Economy Back on Track: Strategies for Overcoming Political Gridlock
12/2/11 Juergen Stark European Central Bank The Economic Situation and Fiscal Challenges
10/26/11 Phillip L. Swagel University of Maryland The Future of Housing Finance
9/27/11 Brian Madigan Barclays Capital Conducting Monetary Policy in the Financial Crisis
6/29/11 Lyle E. Gramley Consultant Confessions of a Forecaster
5/11/11 Narayana Kocherlakota Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Some Contingent Planning for Monetary Policy
4/28/11 Arthur Kennickell Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Tossed and Turned: Distributional Shifts in the U.S., 2007-2009
3/30/11 Simon M. Potter Federal Reserve Bank of New York Improving Survey Measures of Inflationary Expectations
3/2/11 Robert Fry DuPont The Economic Outlook From an Industry Perspective
1/21/11 Stanley E. Collender Qorvis Communications The Federal Budget In A Time of Madness
12/8/10 Charles W. Calomiris Columbia University Navigating Government Created Volatility: Positioning in Light of Dodd-
10/27/10 Douglas W. Elmendorf Director, Congressional Budget Office Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times
9/29/10 Eric S. Rosengren Federal Reserve Bank of Boston How Should Monetary Policy Respond to a Slow Recovery?
9/13/10 Pat Getz & Chris Manning Bureau of Labor Statistics Special BLS Seminar on Payroll Employment
9/13/10 Pat Getz & Chris Manning Bureau of Labor Statistics Special BLS Seminar on Payroll Employment
6/30/10 Joseph S. Tracy Federal Reserve Bank of New York Housing Busts and Housing Policy
4/29/10 Douglas Holtz-Eakin American Action forum What Will Happen to Trend Productivity Growth?
4/1/10 Stephen S. Roach Morgan Stanley The Next China
3/5/10 Henrique Meirelles Governor, Banco Central do Brasil Macroeeconomic Fundamentals and Economic Growth
2/24/10 Karen Dynan Brookings Institution Household Leveraging and Deleveraging
1/28/10 Donald J. Boyd Rockerfeller Institute of Government The Recession, the Recovery and State and Local Government Finances
12/17/09 Peter R. Fischer Managing Director of BlackRock No Exit Without an Entrance: You Can’t Go Home Again
10/29/09 Ellen Hughes-Cromwick Ford Motor Company Global Economic and Auto Industry Perspectives
9/30/09 Rick Bookstaber author “A Demon of Our Own Design” View of the Financial Crisis One Year Later: What Lessons Have We Learned?
6/8/09 Brent Moulton, Bob Kornfeld, & Brandan Leary BEA BEA Seminar on NIPA revisions
4/30/09 Thomas D. Gallagher Intl. Strategy & Investment Group Taking Stock of the Financial Crisis Policy Responses
3/25/09 Janet L. Yellen Fed.Reserve Bank of San Francisco The U.E. Economic Situation & Policy Responses
2/25/09 William C. Dunkelberg NFIB & Temple University The Small Half of the Economy: How Are 6 Million Employers Doing?
1/29/09 Hans-Helmut Kotz Deutsche Bundesbank Financial Market Stress: European Responses
12/17/08 Laurence H. Meyer Macroeconomic Advisors Monetary Policy:Whatever It Takes
10/30/08 Henk-Jan Brinkman World Food Programs Is the Era of Cheap Food Really Over?
9/25/08 Edward J. Kane Boston College Rethinking the Role of Credit Rating Organizations in Structured Securitization
6/24/08 Prof. Marvin Goodfriend Carneigie Mellon Univ. Interest on Reserves & Monetary Policy
5/1/08 William D. Nordhaus Yale Univ. The Economics of Global Warming
3/20/08 Catherine L. Mann Brandeis Univ. Dollar Adjustment: Implications for Prices, Products & Partners
2/27/08 Athanasios Orphanides Central Bank of Cyprus Expectations & Monetary Poicy
1/31/08 Carl E. Steidtmann Deloitte Research The Consumer Driven Recession
12/13/07 William C. Dudley Deloitte Research The Consumer Driven Recession
10/23/07 Daniel H. Rosen China Strategic Advisory Economic Metamorphosis in China
9/28/07 Josh Rosner Graham Fisher & Co. Structural Changes in Mortgage Finance & the Transmission to the Real Economy