Donald L Kohn: The economic outlook Speech by Mr Donald L Kohn, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, at the National Association for Business Economics, St Louis, Missouri, 13 October 2009. *  *  *  I'm pleased to be here at the National Association for Business Economics.
Most of you are in the business of making or using economic forecasts to inform the strategies of your organizations as they try to meet their objectives. So am I, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to discuss my view of the outlook and the implications that I draw for monetary policy.