Biography:
Jeff Thredgold is President of Thredgold Economic Associates, an economic consulting and professional speaking company based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jeff is the only economist in the world to have ever received the designation of CSP, or Certified Speaking Professional, the highest earned designation in professional speaking.
His career includes 23 years with $91 billion banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. He now serves as "economic consultant" to $30 billion Zions Bancorporation, which has banks in eight states. He also serves as economic consultant to various other clients.
Jeff has appeared dozens of times on CNBC-TV: the nation's business network, as well as numerous appearances on CNN, and is quoted regularly in the nation's financial press. He is a monthly contributor for the national publication Blue Chip Financial Forecasts and quarterly USA TODAY economic forecast surveys.
Jeff has been writing a weekly economic and financial newsletter, now entitled the Tea Leaf, for 30 years. His book, Economy by Thredgold, was released in 2001. His latest book, On The One Hand: The Economist's Joke Book, was also released in 2001.
He served as an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Utah for 16 years. He is a former member of both the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association and the Economic Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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