The Local Economy: What’s going on and what should we expect

This session on the Local Economy will be facilitated by King Banaian of St. Cloud State University. King Banaian is a professor and the chairman of the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University. He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School. He has consulted at the central banks of Ukraine, Egypt and Macedonia and the ministries of finance of Indonesia, Macedonia and Armenia. He is author of The Ukrainian Economy since Independence (Edward Elgar, 1998) and more than thirty articles and book chapters discussing monetary policy and political economy. He is also co-host of the Northern Alliance Radio Network, broadcast in Minneapolis, and co-author of the St. Cloud Quarterly Business Report. He lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota, with his wife and two children.