Don't miss your chance to attend the 2010 NABE Annual Meeting, scheduled for October 9-12 in Denver, Colorado--register via the link below today. As the world economy continues to recover from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, our meeting will provide a forum for many of the world's leading economists to discuss the long-term outlook for the U.S. and global economies. Organized around the theme, "Mile-High Challenges to Economic Prosperity," the conference will also center on the enduring challenges and potential opportunities that will impact and influence business decisions and policymaking over the next decade.
Confirmed speakers at press time include: National Economic Council Deputy Director Jason Furman; Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig; Macroeconomic Advisers Vice Chairman Laurence Meyer, who will participate in a panel discussion and debate with Stanford University Economics Professor John Taylor moderated by CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman; Urban Institute Fellow Rudolph Penner; Nobel Laureate A. Michael Spence; Google Chief Economist Hal Varian; Oxford Economics Chairman and Chief Economist John Walker; and Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, who is slated to receive the 2010 Adam Smith Award, NABE's highest honor. Economic columnist Robert Samuelson, of Newsweek and the Washington Post, will speak at a conference dinner on Saturday, October 9.
Topics to be addressed include: the importance of small business in domestic job creation; the mounting sovereign debt crisis; the future of the real estate/construction sector; health-care policy; the long-term outlook for the U.S. auto industry; renewable energy; monetary policy; and the direction of oil prices.
In addition to those mentioned above, conference speakers include: Bill Colton, vice president, Corporate Planning, ExxonMobil; Tony Crescenzi, senior vice president, market strategist, and portfolio manager, PIMCO; Michael Dowling, president and CEO, North Shore--Long Island Jewish Health System; John Fernald, vice president of Macroeconomic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Mark Finley, general manager, Global Energy Markets & US Economics, BP America, Inc.; Robert Gordon, professor, Northwestern University; Richard Jackson, director and senior fellow of the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Scott Krohn, director of Securitization, Ford Motor Company; Rod Lache, equity analyst, Deutsche Bank; Michael Marrese, managing director and head of Economics and Strategy, JP Morgan Chase; Chad Moutray, chief economist, U.S. Small Business Administration; Glenn Mueller, real estate investment trategist, Dividend Capital; Lynn Reaser, NABE president and chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University; Charles Steindel, senior vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Joe Swedish, CEO, Trinity Health; Philip Verleger, principal, PK Verleger, LLC; and Richard Wobbekind, professor, University of Colorado.
ABOUT NABE: NABE is the premier professional association for business economists
and those who use economics in the workplace. Since 1959, NABE has attracted the brightest minds and the most prominent figures in economics, business, and academia to its membership with highly-regarded conferences, educational and career evelopment offerings, industry surveys, and its unrivaled networking opportunities. The NABE membership is organized into ten subject-oriented Roundtables, including: Corporate Planning, Financial, Health Economics, International, Manufacturing/Industry, Real Estate/Construction, Regional/Utility, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Transfer Pricing. Past presidents of NABE include former Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System, Alan Greenspan, several former Federal Reserve Governors, and other senior business leaders. For more information, please visit www.nabe.com.
PRESS REGISTRATION: An online press registration form is available at:
http://www.nabe.com/press/2010amreg.cfm
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information regarding media attendance at the NABE 2010
Annual Meeting, please contact NABE Press Officer Melissa Golding on 571-236-2820 or melissag@nabe.com. More information about the meeting is available at: http://www.nabe.com/am2010/index.html, including a regularly updated program: http://www.nabe.com/am2010/program.html.
For room reservations at the Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton Street, Denver, CO,
call 888-421-1442. Ask for the NABE group rate of $199, which will be available
until September 17, 2010.
Prairie Gateway re-branded to Victory Crossing {Commerce City}
Commerce City "We need to be sure that we are not left behind in ED..."
Will we ever see Development @ the Prairie Gateway site in Commerce City, CO??? It has been years since the Commerce City Civic Center and Rapids stadium have been built and still no economic development. I guess patience is really a virtue.
