Media Advisory: Bullard will Deliver Welcoming Remarks and Athanasios Orphanides will Present at 2015 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture

DATE: Wednesday, June 3        

EVENT/LOCATION: Homer Jones Memorial Lecture

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

One Federal Reserve Bank Plaza

St. Louis, Mo. 63102 

LECTURE TITLE: Fear of Liftoff: Uncertainty, Rules and Discretion in Monetary Policy Normalization

TIME (CDT): 3 p.m. — Media Availability

4 p.m. — Welcoming Remarks, James Bullard, president, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

4:10 p.m. — Homer Jones Memorial Lecture, Athanasios Orphanides, Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management; research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research; senior fellow of the Center for Financial Studies; research fellow of the Institute for Monetary Financial Stability; and member of the Shadow Open Market Committee

The media availability is with both Pres. Bullard and Prof. Orphanides.

Text for Pres. Bullard’s welcoming remarks will be available.

ON-SITE CONTACT: Adriene Dempsey

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Office: 314-444-7471

Mobile: 314-852-5968

Email: adriene.l.dempsey@stls.frb.org