The Conference Board Economics Watch®
We are in the fifth year of confronting the effects of a liquidity and debt crisis that brought the global economy to a standstill in 2008 and has helped bolster high debt-to-GDP ratios in the U.S., Japan, and many Eurozone countries. Eurozone and the U.K. have already embarked upon aggressive fiscal austerity measures, while the U.S. so far has been much more moderate. However, there are major debates about the extent to which austerity measures accelerate or slow the recovery, and whether those measures are a precondition for a more sustainable recovery of growth, deficit and debts. Along with our usual global and U.S. economic outlook update, we will also reintroduce our simple but in our view powerful framework that quantitatively connects the management of the deficit and debt with the needed GDP growth targets of the economy, which are inflation, employment and productivity. We will focus on the U.S. and Japanese fiscal situations in this webcast.
Speakers
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Ataman Ozyildirim
Ataman Ozyildirim is an economist and director of business cycles and growth research at The Conference Board. He joined The Conference Board in 1999 as part of the Global Business Cycle Indicators Program that produces The Conference ... Full Bio |
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Kathy Bostjancic
Kathy Bostjancic is director for macroeconomic analysis at The Conference Board. A specialist in the U.S. economy and financial markets, she is a member of the team that produces the U.S. economic forecast and global outlook for The Conference Boa... Full Bio |
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Stephen Sexauer
Stephen Sexauer has been the Chief Investment Officer of AGI Solutions since inception in June, 2008, and has been a Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors of America LLC or one of its subsidiaries since May, 2003. Mr. Sexauer has ove... Full Bio |