Chapter News

NABE is pleased to announce the formation of its newest chapter--the MidSouth Association for Business Economics in Memphis. Chapter President Michael Drury, chief economist at McVean Trading and Investments LLC in Memphis, reports the chapter began a few months ago with four members, including himself.  The other officers are: Michael Skordeles of Morgan Keegan as vice president, Jeff Wallace from the University of Memphis as secretary/treasurer, and Gary Beasley of FDIC as a sole board member.  “At our first organizational meeting we drew 23 more recruits,” Drury said. Former NABE President Chris Varvares, president of Macroeconomic Advisers, was the chapter’s first guest speaker at a February 16 luncheon at the University of Memphis campus.  “We learned at the first meeting that there once was a Memphis chapter, but its demise was many years ago. We do have a one member overlap!” Drury said.

The Philadelphia Council for Business Economics hosted a luncheon February 3 featuring Ellen Beeson Zentner, senior economist with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., who discussed the “2010 U.S. Spending Outlook.”  Zentner’s presentation and photos of the event are posted on the chapter’s website. http://www.pcbe.org/pcbe.nsf/Home

The DFW Association for Business Economics held a luncheon February 19 featuring a presentation by Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Keith Hall at the Tower Club in downtown Dallas.   On January 29, Harvey Rosenblum, director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a past president of NABE, addressed a meeting of the Dallas chapter on the outlook for the U.S. economic for 2010 and beyond. http://nabe.com/chapters/dallas/index.html

The Los Angeles Chapter will host a morning program with former NABE President Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, chief economist of Ford Motor Company, on February 25 on “Can Emerging Markets Refuel Global Auto Growth?”   On February 17, LA NABE sponsored a luncheon program with Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com, on  “Assessing the Policy Response to the Great Recession: Past, Present and Future.” http://www.lanabe.org/

The Denver Association of Business Economists (DABE) hosted a luncheon on February 17 with speaker Patrick  Byrne, a budget and policy analyst in the Colorado Department Transportation.  He discussed “Alternatives to the Gas Tax: Technology-Driven Innovations in Transportation Finance.” http://nabe.com/chapters/denver/index.html

The Chicago Association for Business Economics will hold a luncheon meeting February 24 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago with speaker David Oser, chief economist of Shorebank.  He will discuss “Local Economics: A View from the Trenches.”  On December 17, the chapter hosted a speech by Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Keith Hall on “The Economy Today: What Our Measures Tell Us About the Recession.”  Hall’s presentation and others are available on the chapter’s website: http://chicagoassociationforbusinesseconomics.org/default.aspx

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