Jeff Thredgold is President of Thredgold Economic Associates, an economic consulting and professional speaking firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. His career includes twenty-three years with $92 billion banking giant KeyCorp, where he served as senior vice president and chief economist. He now serves as an economic consultant to $50 billion Zions Bancorporation, one of the nation's premier financial services companies. Thredgold is a former member of both the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association and the Economic Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also the only economist in the world to have ever received the designation of CSP, or Certified Speaking Professional, the highest earned designation in professional speaking. www.thredgold.com