2018 Economic Outlook Briefing
Kevin Kliesen and Charles Gascon
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Friday, October 20, 2017
Breakfast, 7:30am
Hilton Memphis
939 Ridge Lake Blvd., Memphis, TN 38119
Open to the PublicRegistration Deadline - Tuesday, October 17, 2017
The Economic Club of Memphis in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – Memphis Branch is pleased to present the 2018 Regional Economic Briefing and breakfast on Friday, October 20, 2017. The speakers will be Kevin Kliesen, business economist and Bank Officer in the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Charles Gascon, regional economist with the St. Louis Fed. Kevin will discuss national economic conditions, and Charles will focus on the role of business startups in overall economic activity.
A breakfast buffet will begin at 7:30 am. This meeting is open to the public at no charge. Reservations are required. Please share the details with friends and colleagues who may be interested in attending.
Kevin Kliesen analyzes current U.S. macroeconomic and financial market developments and trends for the Bank president and staff economists prior to each Federal Open Market Committee meeting. He also reports on and analyzes economic conditions in the seven states of the Eighth Federal Reserve District. He has written and published extensively and developed, in partnership, the St. Louis Fed’s Financial Stress Index and the St. Louis Fed’s Price Pressures Measure.
Charles Gascon is a regional economist and senior research support coordinator in the Research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He currently supervises the Research department’s staff of analysts and contributes to the bank’s Beige Book areport on economic conditions in the seven states of the Eighth Federal Reserve District. He has published articles in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, The Regional Economist, and Economic Synopses.