Around Town -- Other Events of Interest
Federal Forecasters
On January 9th, 2007 there is a brown bag lunch seminar. The brown bag seminar will be from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. The presentation will be "Directional Forecasts of GDP and Inflation: joint evaluation with an application to federal reserve predictions" by Herman Steckler and Tara Sinclair. You can get more information at the following site: http:///www.gwu.edu/~forcpgm/
National Economists Club
Reservations are preferred one business day before an event. Walk-ins are welcome.
Thursday, January 11: Alex Pollock, Resident Fellow American Enterprise Institute Topic: “SEC’s Sarbanes-Oxley Fix Needs Fixing”
Thursday, January 25: Kevin McCabe, Professor of Economics at George Mason University Topic: “The Next New Thing? Neuroeconomics”
Thursday, February 1: Donald Marron, Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office (tentative) Topic: "The 2007 Budget and Economic Outlook"
Thursday, February 8: Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week Topic: “Will Our Children All Work In Hospitals and Doctors’ Offices?”
Thursday, February 15 w/SGE: TBA Please consult www.national-economists.org for updates to this topic and date.
Thursday, February 22: Brian Sack, Chief Economist, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC Topic: “Some Myths and Realities about Central Bank Credibility”
NABE
The NABE Policy conference is coming this spring. For more information go to their website http://www.nabe.com/pc07/index.html.