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Jeff Thredgold
The Entertaining Economic Futurist
Entertaining economist Jeff Thredgold has been helping people understand the tangled maze of the economy and financial markets for over three decades ... with a slice of optimism and a touch of humor. He is the only economist in the world to have ever earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned designation in professional speaking.
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Jeff Thredgold is President of a professional speaking and economic consulting company.
He is the only economist in the world to have earned the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation, the highest earned designation in professional speaking. He has spoken more than 1,500 times during the past 20 years, traveling more than one million miles in the process.
His career includes 23 years with $100 billion banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as Senior VP and Chief Economist. He now serves as economic consultant to $55 billion Zions Bancorporation, which has banks in 10 states. Jeff also serves as economic consultant to various other clients.
Jeff has appeared dozens of times on CNBC-TV, the nation's business network, in addition to numerous appearances on CNN, and is quoted regularly in the nation's financial press. He is a monthly contributor to 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 titled the Tea Leaf, for 34 years. He is the author of four books, econAmerica (published by major publisher Wiley & Sons), Economy by Thredgold, A Parent's Letter to My Children in School, and On The One Hand - The Economist's Joke Book. The company also produces quarterly economic reports and a monthly small business index for various clients.
He served as an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Utah for 16 years and served as President of the National Association for Business Economics Utah Chapter. He is a former member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association and the Economic Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Jeff received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Weber State University and a master's degree in economics from the University of Utah. In addition, he completed bank investment schools at Southern Methodist University and the University of Illinois.
He is the only economist in the world to have earned the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation, the highest earned designation in professional speaking. He has spoken more than 1,500 times during the past 20 years, traveling more than one million miles in the process.
His career includes 23 years with $100 billion banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as Senior VP and Chief Economist. He now serves as economic consultant to $55 billion Zions Bancorporation, which has banks in 10 states. Jeff also serves as economic consultant to various other clients.
Jeff has appeared dozens of times on CNBC-TV, the nation's business network, in addition to numerous appearances on CNN, and is quoted regularly in the nation's financial press. He is a monthly contributor to 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 titled the Tea Leaf, for 34 years. He is the author of four books, econAmerica (published by major publisher Wiley & Sons), Economy by Thredgold, A Parent's Letter to My Children in School, and On The One Hand - The Economist's Joke Book. The company also produces quarterly economic reports and a monthly small business index for various clients.
He served as an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Utah for 16 years and served as President of the National Association for Business Economics Utah Chapter. He is a former member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association and the Economic Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Jeff received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Weber State University and a master's degree in economics from the University of Utah. In addition, he completed bank investment schools at Southern Methodist University and the University of Illinois.
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