The Philadelphia Council for Business Economics
A Chapter of NABE

is pleased to present

Joel Naroff
President and Founder of Naroff Economic Advisors

Presentation: "Is This the Year to 'Take This Job and Shove It'?"

Joel Naroff is the President and founder of Naroff Economic Advisors, a strategic economic consulting firm. He advises companies from a wide range of industries on the risks and opportunities that economic developments may have on the organization's operating environment.

Joel works with firms across the country. He is an economic advisor to Cumberland Advisors, Metro Bank, Beneficial Bank, Trefoil Properties and Spectrum Alliance. He consults with banks on asset/liability, economic growth and credit risk issues, corporations on economic risk as well as business and marketing opportunities. He is an economic and financial advisor to state and local governments. He has testified in front of Congress on economic and fiscal policy matters.

A nationally recognized economic forecasting expert, Joel has received numerous honors. In 2011, for the second time in five years, he received the National Association for Business Economics Outlook Award as the top economic forecaster. NABE is the premier professional association for business economists and those who use economics in the workplace. He also received the award in 2007. In 2008 he was awarded the Lawrence Klein Award for Blue Chip forecasting excellence. He was also named the Bloomberg Business News 2008 top economic forecaster. In 2006, Joel was MSNBC's the top forecaster. He was the first independent economist to win the "CBS MarketWatch Economist of the Month" award.

Joel is often quoted in the national press, including Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Financial Times and Newsweek. Internationally, his materials are quoted by almost every national news agency and are posted on Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblog. He appears frequently on CNBC, Fox Business News and Bloomberg Television. In addition, he has been on ABC's The World News Tonight, The CBS Evening News, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo, BNN in Canada, and local television stations throughout the Northeast. Joel writes a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, does business commentary for KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia and can be heard often on the national news radio networks.

Joel received bachelors' degrees in economics and chemistry from Stony Brook University and his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, teaches at the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking and the Pennsylvania Bankers Advanced School of Banking, is a past Chair of the American Bankers Association's Economic Advisory Committee and is a past President of the Philadelphia Council of Business Economists.


Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Time: 1:00 pm - Presentation begins

Place: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Directions
           Ten Independence Mall (Seventh & Arch Streets),
           Philadelphia, PA