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Michael Bryan

Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Mike Bryan is a vice president and senior economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is responsible for organizing the Atlanta Fed's monetary policy process.

Mr. Bryan previously served as vice president in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland where he specialized in business analysis with an emphasis on measuring and tracking inflation trends. He joined the Cleveland Fed as a bank examiner in 1978 and transferred to the Research Department the next year. In 1986, Mr. Bryan served as an economist in the Research Division of the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. He was promoted to the position of economic adviser in 1991 and appointed as a bank officer in 1995. In 1998, he was a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan's Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies in Tokyo, and in 2000 he was a visiting economist at the Swedish Riksbank in Stockholm. Mr. Bryan taught in the Department of Economics at Cleveland State University and has served on the faculties of Baldwin-Wallace College and Case Western Reserve University, both in Cleveland. He joined the Atlanta Fed in 2008.

A native of Cleveland, Mr. Bryan earned a bachelor's degree in business from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a master's degree in economics from Case Western Reserve University.

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Michael Bryan's Latest Articles | 7

Taking a Deeper Dive Into the Definition of Inflation

Apr 16, 2012| 

Sometimes our familiarity with a topic gets in the way of our understanding of it. I often think that about inflation. It’s widely known that inflation is... Read »

Is the Economy Hitting Stall Speed?

Aug 1, 2011| 

The news that the U.S. economy is not only growing slowly but has grown more slowly than anyone even knew has justifiably rattled some nerves. The sentiment is captured... Read »

Should We Even Read the Monthly Inflation Report? Maybe Not. Then Again…

Jun 1, 2011| 

In a recent issue of Economic Synopsis, our colleague Dan Thornton of the St. Louis Fed questions the usefulness of the traditional core inflation statistics—the... Read »

Gauging the Inflation Expectations of Business

Jul 21, 2010| 

Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the consumer price index (CPI) declined in June for the third consecutive month. And although... Read »

How Close to Deflation Are We? Perhaps Just a Little Closer than You Thought

Jul 9, 2010| 

Since last October, the consumer price index (CPI) has gone up an annualized 0.7 percent. On an ex-food and energy basis, the number is a little lower, at 0.5... Read »

Sticky-price CPI up slightly in April… Wait, what?

May 20, 2010| 

No matter how you cut the April report on consumer prices, retail inflation keeps coming up zero. Here are the key points: The consumer price index (CPI) fell... Read »

Disinflation: Is It All Housing? I Think Not – and I’m Not Alone

Apr 7, 2010| 

Yesterday, the Federal Open Market Committee minutes contained this observation: While the ongoing decline in the implicit rental cost for owner-occupied housing... Read »

Housing Back in the News

Nov 20, 2009| 

Two reports released this week remind us of the difficulties still confronting the residential real estate market. First, the consumer price index (CPI) showed continued... Read »

The September CPI with All the Trimmings

Oct 16, 2009| 

Yesterday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail prices rose 2 percent (annualized) in September, and it characterized the increase as “broad... Read »

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