Ivy Tech Community College−Northeast is hosting a lecture by William Strauss, senior economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The event will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 in the Ivy Tech Coliseum Campus auditorium (3800 N. Anthony Blvd.)

Strauss will be presenting a lecture entitled the “Economic Outlook for 2012 and Recent Actions of the Federal Reserve.” Following the lecture will be a question and answer session with Strauss. This event is free and open to the public.

“The recovery from the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 has been a prolonged event, particularly for the part of the country served by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,” said Joshua Long, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at Ivy Tech−Northeast. “Mr. Strauss’s insights from his work and research at the Federal Reserve should provide an interesting perspective for the way that the recovery is occurring in this region.”

For more information, contact Joshua Long at jlong@ivytech.edu or 260-480-2090.

About William Strauss
William A. Strauss is a senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which he joined in 1982. His chief responsibilities include analyzing the current performance of both the Midwest economy and the manufacturing sector for use in monetary policy. He produces the monthly Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index and organizes the Bank’s Economic Outlook Symposium and Automotive Outlook Symposium. In addition, he conducts several economic workshops and industrial roundtables throughout the year.

His research papers include analysis of the manufacturing sector, the automotive sector, the Midwest regional economy, the trade-weighted dollar, business cycles and Federal Reserve payments operations. Strauss has been interviewed on numerous television and radio shows and quoted in the major business magazines and newspapers. He has also provided testimony concerning manufacturing issues to the U.S. Senate.