Coming Attraction: Economic Outlook for Credit Unions
Steve Rick, Senior Economist, Credit Union National Association, Madison, Wisconsin

This presentation discusses how the global economy, the overall financial sector and the stressed labor market will affect the U.S. economy, U.S. interest rates and ultimately credit union balance sheet and earnings performance.  Steve Rick will analyze and establish standards against which your credit union’s own performance can be measured.  Rick also identifies trends of savings and loan activity, and weigh the influence of future economic events on growth patterns out into 2013.

About Steve Rick

Steve Rick is the senior economist for CUNA & Affiliates’ Economics & Statistics Department. With CUNA since 1992, he conducts economic research, teaches and lectures at credit union events across the country and internationally, and writes articles for CUNA publications. Rick also lectures at the University of Wisconsin on money & banking, macroeconomics, and microeconomics and has served two years as an advisor for a computerized bank simulation game for the Prochnow Graduate School of Banking. He is on the board of directors at University of Wisconsin Credit Union and has authored an ALM textbook for credit union executives.

Rick has a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in finance from Moorhead University, an M.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, and is ABD Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin.