Jim Dolmas, Economic Policy Advisor and Senior Economist of The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas will help us to explore the recent roller coaster ride of the US Economy.  Get the facts on inflation, GDP, unemployment, wages, labor force participation & more.

Jim Dolmas is an economic policy advisor and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas. His main research interests are in the field of macroeconomics, where he has worked on
such topics as the costs associated with business cycles, the effectiveness of stabilization policy,
inflation measurement, and the politico-economic determinants of inflation, taxation, and
immigration policy. His research has appeared in scholarly journals such as International
Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics and Journal of Economic Dynamics &
Control.
Dolmas holds a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester and a bachelor’s degree with
honors in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Dallas Fed in June 2000,
he taught economics at the undergraduate and graduate level at Southern Methodist University. He
has also taught at the University of Rochester and the University of Texas in Austin.
Dolmas developed and maintains the Dallas Fed’s Trimmed Mean PCE inflation rate. In addition
to briefing the Bank’s president on national economic conditions, Dolmas writes monthly analyses
of inflation data for the Bank’s website

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