News Briefs

Embarking on its third year, the NABE partnership with Federal Reserve District Banks is expanding this fall with the establishment of new high school economics clubs in several cities across the country.  Under the leadership of NABE member Kathleen Camilli, the program already includes high school economics clubs in New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, and Baltimore. Camilli notes that “there has been no shortage of comments from public officials regarding the need for education (all kinds) to maintain U.S. competitiveness, mostly recently from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in a Sept. 24th speech entitled “Education and Economic Competitiveness.”  Members interested in participating should contact Camilli or chapter presidents in localities involved in the program, which is supported by the NABE Foundation.

Register for a teleconference on “Global Trends in the E-Readiness of National Economies,” Tuesday, Oct. 23, 11:00 a.m. EDT—sponsored by the Corporate Planning Roundtable.  The speaker is James W. Cortada, IBM Institute for Business Values.  Sydney Smith Hicks, roundtable chair, will moderate. Registration is complimentary for CPRT members, $5 for other NABE members, and $50 for non-NABE members.  To register, please click here. Once you register we’ll e-mail the toll-free, dial-in information and the URL for the presentation.

Mark your 2008 calendar for major NABE events. The March Policy Conference will be March 3-4 in Washington, D.C., and the 50th Annual Meeting is scheduled for Oct. 5-7 in Washington, D.C.  

NABE will sponsor two sessions at the ASSA meeting Jan. 4-6, 2008, in New Orleans.  One session will focus on monetary policy from a global perspective and the other will focus on stock options in the national income and product accounts.  For details go to: http://nabe.com/publib/assa2008.html.

The August 2007 Policy Survey has received exceptional media coverage since its release on Aug. 27, according to NABE press officer Melissa Golding. Outgoing NABE President Carl Tannenbaum was interviewed about the survey by the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, CNN Radio, and the Bangor Daily News. Survey Committee Member Kathleen Camilli did interviews with CNBC, the Marketplace radio program, CBS Radio, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio, Voice of America Radio, Folha (Brazil), and Radio KLIF in Dallas-Fort Worth. Among the other outlets that carried original reports about the survey were the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today, Dow Jones, Japanese National TV, Fox News, Associated Press Radio, Finfacts Ireland, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (New York), news.com.au (Australia), the Peninsula Online (Qatar), the Olympian online (Washington state), WEBN Buffalo, the Edmonton Journal (Alberta, Canada), the Fond du Lac Reporter (Wisconsin), the Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.), and Marketplace, which mentioned the survey in two separate programs on Aug. 27—once in the opening soundbite on the evening program, and once in a piece for the Marketplace Morning Report by Correspondent Janet Babin.