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Session 15: How to Build Your Own Cycle Indicator

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Peter Jaquette
Weyerhaeuser

Peter B. Jaquette is Manager, Economic Analysis at Weyerhaeuser Company. His primary responsibilities at Weyerhaeuser include market analysis of the containerboard, packaging and paper recycling industries and assessing trends and developments in the economy and how they impact the markets served by Weyerhaeuser. Previously, he was with WEFA and the Atlantic Richfield Company.

He has served on the NABE Board of Directors and is a past president of the NABE Los Angeles Chapter and a member of the National Business Economic Issues Council. He received his B.A. degree from Swarthmore College and his M.A. from Stanford University.

Karl Kurt Karl
Swiss Re

Kurt E. Karl is head of Swiss Re’s Economic Research and Consulting, North America. As such, Dr. Karl has responsibility for the North American part of Swiss Re’s “sigma” insurance industry research. In addition, he supports Swiss Re’s strategic planning and provides internal consulting on products and economic risks. Finally, he supplies insights and forecasts on the U.S. and global economies to Swiss Re and Conning Asset Management for use in a variety of corporate decisions, including asset management. He is an expert on the U.S. and global economies with extensive experience and knowledge of foreign markets and has lived and worked in Europe, Africa and Asia. Dr. Karl is a contributor to many forecasting surveys, including those of the Wall Street Journal, Blue Chips, Bloomberg and Reuters. He is widely quoted in the financial press. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Dr. Karl was chief international economist at WEFA, Inc., an economic forecasting firm located near Philadelphia. He has a B.A. from the University of Oregon, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

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