PRODUCTS AND SERVICES...

Several of the services I currently provide companies, asset managers, and trade associations include:

1. My signature publication--by subscription--"ClearView on the Economy."  Released late each calendar month, these charts and terse commentaries layout out my disciplined approach for tracking just the right set of indicators (not spinning wheels and wasting time on things that don't matter) that yield good insights into the economy's and the financial market's prospects.  A Special Studies section each month touches on interesting and topical economic and financial market issues (but I practice: "brevity is the soul of wit").  For those quantitatively oriented, a table of hard forecast numbers is provided; these are the forecasts I submit to the BLUE CHIP ECONOMIC INDICATORS survey. 

2. Customized, regular (such as quarterly) tracking of key indicators relevant for companies or trade associations.  This visualization of pertinent factors keeps folks and firms focused on what really matters!

3. PRESENTATIONS!  Speeches!  Telephone conferences!  Economic updates!  To managers. To Boards of Directors.  To sales associates.  To company clients.  To trade association members (I do this a LOT!).  People often come away saying, "This is the first economist I've ever understood!" and "If only I had YOU for my economics professor!"

4. Rapid response comments on the popular economic indicators (e.g., the employment report, retail sales, or Federal Reserve FOMC decisions).  People like these no-more-than-one-page analysis commentaries because they are emailed usually within 90 minutes of the actual release of the data, they are written by an economist, not a business journalist (with some unknown agenda), and they are related with a bit of wit.  (See the NEWS page for a few recent items.)

5. Specific research projects-- (you fill in the blank).