IEEE CTS LMAG and CTCN 6.27.2024 meeting- Economic Outlook 2024-2025
This is a hybrid meeting starting at 6 PM CST at the Asian American Resource Center.
Before looking into the Forecasters’ projection into 2024-2025, Mr. Greenfield will review the Post WWII period when US was the dominant economic power in the world. In 2023, US has four percent of the world population while accounting for 23 percent of the world’s Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP). While we continue to be the world’s dominant country since the turn of the century, our economic growth rate has declined. Stuart will delineate the factors that are affecting the rate of change, and what we need to do to reverse the trend and keep up with the rest of the world or adjust to the new world of many developing country with much higher growth rate.
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- Date: 27 Jun 2024
- Time: 06:00 PM to 07:31 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- 8401 Cameron Rd.
- Austin, Texas
- United States 78754
- Building: Asian American Resource Center
- Room Number: 8
- Starts 31 May 2024 05:00 PM
- Ends 25 June 2024 05:02 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Stuart Greenfield of The University of Texas, Austin.
Economic Outlook 2024-2025
Before looking into the Forecasters’ projection into 2024-2025, Mr. Greenfield will review the Post WWII period when US was the dominant economic power in the world. In 2023, US has four percent of the world population while accounting for 23 percent of the world’s Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP). While we continue to be the world’s dominant country since the turn of the century, our economic growth rate has declined. Stuart will delineate the factors that are affecting the rate of change, and what we need to do to reverse the trend and keep up with the rest of the world or adjust to the new world of many developing country with much higher growth rate.
Biography:
Mr. Stuart Greenfield joined the State of Texas Comptroller Office in February 1977 and worked for three Texas Comptrollers of Public Accounts and other Texas state agencies. Since retiring from the State in 2000, Stuart has taught economics at Austin Community College and the University of Maryland Global College. He has also worked on various projects including preparing testimony on the dismal investment performance of ERS investments, analysis of the public sector pay in Texas relative to other states and researching the aging of the public sector workforce and its implications, and analyzing the fiscal condition of Texas.
He was born in Brooklyn NY and grew up in New Jersey. He went to University of Dayton and obtained a BS degree in Economics, then came to UT Austin to get his Ph.D. in Economics in 1975.
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Address:Austin, Texas, United States, 78731
Agenda
The Life Members Affinity Group and Austin Consultants Network Affinity Group (CTCN) meets monthly. Except when meeting jointly with other groups, the CTCN meet on the third thursday each month. Meetings usually begin with informal networking from 4:00 to 4:10 p.m., followed by presentations from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. by experts in topics of interest to IEEE Members. Our meetings are open to the public.