The Philadelphia Council for Business Economics
A Chapter of NABE

is pleased to present

James Diffley
Director, U.S. Regional Service
IHS Global Insight

Presentation: "Housing - Is it Getting Better?"

James Diffley is Managing Director of IHS Global Insight’s U.S. Regional Services Group, with overall responsibility for Regional Services, including the Regional Core Macroeconomic Service and the Global Insight Real Estate & Construction Service. Since 1998, he has supervised the quarterly economic forecast of the 50 states and over 300 metropolitan areas of the United States. He regularly makes presentations of these regional economic forecasts and analysis to clients, conferences, governmental bodies, and the press.

Diffley came to Global Insight through WEFA, Inc. Prior to joining WEFA, Diffley was supervising tax analyst with the New Jersey Division of Taxation's Office of Tax Analysis from 1988 to 1996, where he was responsible for developing the state economic forecast for the state executive budget and for business tax revenue forecasting. Diffley did his Doctorate of Philosophy training in economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completing all requirements but the dissertation. From 1982 to 1987, he was on the economics faculty at Adelphi University in New York.



Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
             1:00 pm - Presentation begins

Place: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Directions
            Ten Independence Mall (Seventh & Arch Streets),
            Philadelphia, PA