Bruce Kasman is the managing director and Head of Economic Research at the United States

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 financial services

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 firm JPMorgan Chase and as of June 2009, head of the American Bankers Association

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's Economic Advisory Committee.

Biography

Before joining JPMorgan in 1994, Kasman was a senior international economist at Morgan Stanley

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. He started his career at the New York Federal Reserve.

Kasman holds a 1985 PhD

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 from Columbia University

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.