32nd AMT: “Normalizing” Monetary Policy

VIDEO April 18, 2014

Speaker / Author

Bill Dunkelberg, Ph.D.

Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)

William Dunkelberg is professor emeritus of economics in the College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, where he served as dean of the School of Business and Management from 1987 through 1994 and as director of the Center for the Advancement and Study of Entrepreneurship. He served as the Global Interdependence Center’s Chairman for 20 years. He currently serves as chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business (300,000 member firms; since 1971). His prior appointments were at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and the Survey Research Center at the ... Read More

William Poole, Ph.D.

Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute

William Poole is Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute and Senior Advisor to Merk Investments. Poole retired as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in March 2008. In that position, which he held from March 1998, he served on the Federal Reserve’s main monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee. During his ten years at the St. Louis Fed, he presented over 150 speeches on a wide variety of economic and finance topics. Working with his Research Director, Robert Rasche, he did pioneering research on the forecasting accuracy of the federal funds futures market. Before ... Read More

André Kurmann, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, LeBow College of Business at Drexel University

André Kurmann is an associate professor in the School of Economics of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. Prior to joining Drexel, he worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. (2011-2013), as a visiting associate professor in the finance department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2008-2011) and as an assistant and tenured associate professor in the economics department of the Université du Québec à Montréal (2002-2008). He received an undergraduate degree in economics from HEC Lausanne in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia. ... Read More