National and regional economists will explore the 2010 economic environment in the coming year with a special focus on what the economic recovery will look like in 2010 and beyond.
The 19th annual Vermont Economic Conference will be held on Friday, January 8, 2010 at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center and is hosted by The Vermont Economy Newsletter and sponsored by TD Banknorth, KPMG, and Entergy Vermont. The times and topics for the speakers follow:
9:10 a.m. Gus Faucher, Director of Macroeconomics for the national economic consulting and forecasting firm Moody’s Economy.com will speak on The Economic Outlook for the U.S. and Vermont. Dr. Faucher has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business Network, The CBS Evening News, All Things Considered, and Marketplace.
10:10 a.m. Dick Heaps, publisher of The Vermont Economy Newsletter, now in its 20th year of publication, will speak on What Kind of Recovery? Vermont’s Economy in 2010.
11:10 a.m. Governor Jim Douglas. Governor Douglas will outline his budget and policy priorities for the coming legislative session.
11:30 Art Woolf, editor of The Vermont Economy Newsletter, will present The New Growth Paradigm, which will examine forces influencing the Vermont economy over the next several years.
1:00 p.m. Charles Wheelan, professor of public policy at the University of Chicago and author of Naked Economics. He also writes a regular column for Yahoo!Finance. Wheelan’s speech is titled Why is it so hard to fix health care (and everything else): Insights into Public Policy.
Source: Northern Economic Consulting. 1.4.2010