Brian S. Wesbury was named the top economist of 2001 by The Wall Street Journal. He is Vice President and Chief Economist at Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson in Chicago. He is the former Chief Economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress where he was responsible for policy analysis, research, and management of the economics staff. In 1998, Wesbury was named no.3 on the list of top economic forecasters in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal, and he was the winner of the Bond Buyer Interest Rate Forecasting Survey in 1994 and 1997. Mr. Wesbury earned his B.A. in Economics at the University of Montana and his MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has been a featured speaker at state banking associations and has made numerous appearances on CNN, CNBC, CBS Newsradio in Chicago, and PBS. His work and comments have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. His regular monthly column The Outlook appears in The American Spectator magazine. Hometown: Downers Grove (Chicago), Illinois
