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Robert Eisenbeis

Affiliation: Cumberland Advisors

Dr. Robert A. Eisenbeis serves as Cumberland Advisors’ Chief Monetary Economist. In this capacity, he advises Cumberland’s asset managers on developments in US financial markets, the domestic economy and their implications for investment and trading strategies.

Dr. Eisenbeis was formerly Executive Vice-President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he advised the bank’s president on monetary policy for FOMC deliberations and was in charge of basic research and policy analysis. Prior to that, he was the Wachovia Professor of Banking at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also held senior positions at the Federal Reserve Board and FDIC.

He is currently a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and Financial Economist Roundtable and a fellow member of both the National Association of Business Economics and Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and a B.S. degree from Brown University.

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Robert Eisenbeis's Latest Articles | 9

Point of No Return?

May 6, 2013| 

An astute reader and some-time fishing partner raised an interesting issue in connection with a recent commentary. That commentary focused on the problems the Fed... Read »

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste

Apr 26, 2013| 

In the spirit of Rahm Emanuel, who famously said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” it is time to get ready for the next shoe to drop in the sequestration... Read »

The Mouse that Roared

Mar 19, 2013| 

Despite the miniscule economy of Cyprus, events unfolding around its banking crisis will have broad and long-lasting effects far out of proportion to its size. When... Read »

What Makes Us Think They Will Pay?

Jan 29, 2013| 

Notwithstanding all the political rhetoric in DC from both the President and members of Congress, responsible US budget scenarios that reflect current spending commitments... Read »

Fed Watching and Forecasting Has Just Become More Important

Dec 17, 2012| 

The FOMC surprised most economists after its December meeting, not with its decision to extend its MBS purchases or to expand its long-term Treasury purchases, but... Read »

Reserve Requirements as a Tool for a Fed Exit Strategy

Mar 31, 2012| 

At the March 23 Federal Reserve Board conference (Conference on Central Banking: Before, During and After the Crisis), three prominent central bankers – Jean-Claude... Read »

Fed Policy in March

Mar 12, 2012| 

The Fed is about to have its last meeting this quarter, and the February CES jobs report has made this upcoming March meeting much easier.  Total non-farm employment... Read »

Fed Transparency

Feb 2, 2012| 

A lot has already been written on the FOMC’s latest efforts to increase the transparency of its conduct of monetary policy.  It has been a long, drawn-out, deliberate... Read »

The New Communications Strategy of the Fed

Jan 25, 2012| 

Today the FOMC will embark upon its new communications strategy, by which it will release information on the interest-rate path, consistent with achieving its dual... Read »

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