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Statistics...Telling the Economic Story
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Session 7: Prices—Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, PCE Price Index
Kathleen Camilli, Camilli Economics, moderator
Data Producer:
Steve Reed, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index” Slide Show (PDF, 174 K)
Michael Armah, Bureau of Economic Analysis, “Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Index” Slide Show (PDF 51.K)
Case Studies:
Duncan Meldrum, Air Products Inc “Using the CPI or PPI to Escalate Prices” Slide Show (PDF 143 K)
Anne Vandenabeele, Capital Strategy Research Slide Show (PDF 241 K)
Kathleen Camilli
President
Camilli Economics
Kathleen Camilli is one of the nation’s top economic forecasters and independent economists. Her firm, Camilli Economics, provides clients, including investment organizations, corporations, high net worth individuals and family offi ces, with “real world” economic guidance for smart business and fi nancial decisions. Building on her more than two decades of accomplished private and public sector experience, Ms. Camilli provides “on target” analysis on the workings of the U.S. economy and financial markets. Armed with a solid foundation of global macro/micro economic perspectives, she offers unique insight into complex issues and translates those into understandable, actionable ideas.
Known for her consistently accurate forecasting, Kathleen Camilli is one of the leading economists in the country today and has received top ranking from objective performance raters, including The Wall Street Journal, who named her one of the top fi ve economic forecasters two years in a row; Business Week, who named her the number one performing forecaster, and Institutional Investor.
Before founding Camilli Economics in 2004, Ms. Camilli was the U.S. Economist at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) in New York where she provided insight on the U.S. economy to the fi rm’s investment process overseeing $312 billion in fi xed income and equity assets globally. Before joining CSAM, she was Tucker Anthony’s Director of Economic Research for six years. During her career, she has worked as a money market economist at Drexel Burnham Lambert, and as a Fed-watcher at Chase Manhattan Bank. She began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she trained as a practicing economist and was responsible for forecasting reserves for the Open Market Desk.
Kathleen Camilli received B.A. degrees in both Economics and French from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She studied at Universite de Laval, Quebec, Canada and Universite de Paris III, VII, France. She earned an M.B.A. in Finance and an M.A. in French Studies from New York University.
A frequent commentator, author and speaker, Kathleen Camilli is well known as a strong communicator and translator of complex issues into understandable, actionable ideas. She appears regularly on CNN, CNBC, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightly Business Report and Bloomberg Business News. She has been quoted in the financial press, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today.
Steve Reed
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Steve Reed received a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary and a M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland. He joined the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1998 and over the past six years has done extensive research on the Consumer Price Index, including co-creating the CPI-U Research Series. He is also a frequent speaker on the CPI and related matters. When not working he is often chasing around his five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son.
Michael Armah
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Michael Armah joined the Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Wealth Division, in 2002 as program manager overseeing the preparation of personal consumption expenditures (PCE) for services estimates. Before joining BEA, he spent 10 years at the Census Bureau’s Services Sector Statistics Division, where he worked as Section Chief (for half of his tenure) in the Current Services Branch with responsibility for much of the Service Annual Survey. As a Section Chief heI oversaw the implementation of North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and subsequently, the implementation of the provisional North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) in the Service Annual Survey. While at the Census Bureau, he also worked in the Industry Classification Branch, where he contributed to the development of the new NAICS manual, and in the Retail & Wholesale Indicators Branch, where he worked as an industry analyst for the Advance Monthly Retail Sales and the Annual Retail Trade Surveys.
He has earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, with post-graduate studies in international transactions from George Mason University.
Duncan Meldrum
Chief Economist
Air Products, Inc.
Duncan Meldrum is the Chief Economist for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a $5.5 billion industrial gas and chemicals company serving customers in over 30 countries. As Chief Economist, he assesses the impact of the economic environment on the company’s performance for the executive management team and develops global economic assumptions for the company’s operating plans. He provides operating groups with pricing assistance, contract support and market analyses. He also serves as the company’s economics spokesperson.
He received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1973, a M.S. degree in Operations Research from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Lehigh University in 1992. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Census Bureau. He serves as a director on the boards of the APCI Federal Credit Union and the nonprofit Parkette National Gymnastics Center. He is a past president of the National Association for Business Economics. His other professional associations include the Conference of Business Economists, the National Business Economic Issues Council, and the American Economics Association.
Anne Vandenabeele
Economist
Capital Strategy Research
Anne Vandenabeele is an economist of Capital Strategy Research, Inc. (CSR) with US and global macroeconomic research responsibilities. Ms. Vandenabeele joined The Capital Group Companies in 2000 as a participant in "The Associates Program." She holds an MA (with honours) in economics from the University of Edinburgh, U.K. and an MPhil in economics from the University of Oxford, U.K. She is a member of the National Association of Business Economists and is based in Los Angeles.
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