Meetings
CABE’s Next Luncheon Meeting
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Chris Varvares is President of Macroeconomic Advisers, a company he co-founded with Joel Prakken and Laurence Meyer as Laurence H. Meyer & Associates in 1982. The firm became Macroeconomic Advisers in June of 1996 when Dr. Meyer left the firm to join the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Meyer returned to the firm in the summer of 2002 following his term at the Fed.
Mr. Varvares has over 25 years of experience in macroeconomic forecasting and policy analysis, both as a principal of Macroeconomic Advisers (1982 to present) and as a member of the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1981-1982). While at the Council, he served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the OECD in April 1982. Mr. Varvares is currently the President of the National Association for Business Economics, where is was previously Vice President (9/2007-9/2008) and a director. He served as President of the St. Louis chapter of NABE, and is a member of the American Economic Association. He serves as a member of Time Magazine’s Board of Economists, is a member of the New York State Economic and Revenue Advisory Board, serves on the Bureau of the Census Advisory Committee, participates in the meetings of the Outside Consultants to the Congressional Budget Office, and has been a panelist for the World Economic Forum.
He and the other principals of Macroeconomic Advisers serve as consultants to key agencies of the U.S., Canadian, Japanese, and U.K. governments, major trade associations, and private corporations and are widely quoted in the business and financial media. The firm is recognized as among the most accurate forecasters of the U.S. economy. A 2006 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta found that Macroeconomic Advisers had the best forecasting track record of any forecaster in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators panel over the 19 years included in the study. The firm also won the 2006 Annual Forecasting Award of the National Association of Business Economics and twice has won the Annual Forecasting Award for the highest forecast accuracy among participants in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators, and would have been the only three-time winner of the award if not for a rule that precluded winning in two consecutive years. Macroeconomic Advisers is also a prominent participant in the debates over the macroeconomic effects of federal budget and tax policy, and monetary policy.
Mr. Varvares holds a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University and M.A. in Economics (ABD) from Washington University in St. Louis.
LUNCH MENU AND HELPFUL INSTRUCTIONS
- LOCATION: The City Club (Pogue Room), 850 Euclid Avenue, 2nd Floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 - Citizen's Building (southwest corner of E. 9th & Euclid Avenue). Please make your reservation by Monday, June 15th @ noon with Carol Robinson-Ashburn @ carolrobinson@westfieldgrp.com or call 330.887.0414.
- Buffet style for lunch and opens from 11:30a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Please register with Carol and head to the buffet at your leisure.
- Buffet Dining which includes:
Full salad bar
Two (2) homemade soups
Pasta bar
Rotating selection of 2 Hot Main Entrees
Appropriate starch and vegetable, crackers, rolls and butter
Beverages: Water, Iced Tea, Coffee & Decaf, Hot Tea. - Parking Garage accessible from Prospect, Euclid Avenue, and East 8th Street via Euclid Avenue. If you enter the lot at or after 11:00 a.m. and leave by 2:30 p.m., both by the lot's clock, AND have the parking stub validated at The City Club, parking will cost $2.25. Otherwise, standard rates will apply.
- RESERVATIONS:Please make your reservation by Monday, June 15th @ noon with Carol Robinson-Ashburn @ carolrobinson@westfieldgrp.com or call 330.887.0414.