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Archived March 14, 2006

Washington, DC (March 14, 2006) - Gregory Valliere, Chief Strategist with the Stanford Washington Research Group, was the featured speaker at the 2006 Washington Economic Policy Conference of the National Association for Business Economics, held March 13 and 14. The focus of the conference was: Policies to Boost Economic Growth and Security - What’s Needed? Subject matter experts and business leaders from across the country gathered to explore the issues of mounting deficits, a burdensome tax code, growing health care costs, intensifying foreign competition, uncertain trade strategies and high energy prices and what policies are required to address these issues and maximize economic growth and security for the nation and for the business community.

Valliere joined leading economic thinkers, business analysts, and government policy-makers to explore the policy solutions central to these issues. Specific sessions included:

• The White House policy agenda
• Wall Street’s views about what policies will work
• The mood and tilt of Congress
• Balanced solutions for restoring fiscal sanity
• Health care: value-based purchasing and consumer-directed
• The Bernanke Fed
• Problems of public company pensions in distressed industries
• Telecommunications at a crossroads
• Oil, gas, and policy options for energy security
• China’s policy mix and implications for the global economy
• Health information technology-a progress update
• Extending tax cuts set against rising budget deficits
• Tax reform on the agenda
• International economic development: IMF prescriptions
• Structural adjustments in response to offshore competition
• Diversification-protecting states from sectoral decline
• Skills session: comparing price measures-PPI/CPI/PCE
• Economic contribution of immigration

Valliere addressed politics, federal monetary and tax policy. He began his career at The Washington Post and later became Chief Congressional Correspondent and then News Editor of “F-D-C” Reports, a trade publication that monitors the drug and cosmetic industries. He is a frequent guest on CNBC’s “Market Wrap,” CNN’s “Business Day” and “Nightly Business Report,” which appears on most PBS stations.

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