Business Before Hours - Economic Forecast 2018

The first Business Before Hours of the new year is scheduled for Tuesday, January 16, 8:00 am in the Crawford Room at Wisp Resort.  The topic will be an Economic Forecast with guest speaker J.D. Foster who is senior vice president, Economic Policy Division, and chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The event will be sponsored by Railey Reality.

Dr. J.D. Foster is senior vice president, Economic Policy Division, and chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining the Chamber in June 2013, Foster was the Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the Economics of Fiscal Policy at The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding nonprofit, Washington, D.C., research organization. Before coming to Heritage in 2007, Foster spent five years as associate director for economic policy (chief economist) at the Office of Management and Budget, the White House. In 2001, Foster served as economic counsel in the Office of Tax Policy, the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to that, he served as legislative director to Rep. Crane (R-IL), vice chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives. He received a B.A. in economics and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Colorado, an M.A. in economics from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University.