Another of Levy’s triumphs was forecasting the prolonged slump of the early 1990s; he anticipated both the nature of the unfolding malaise and the financially troubled, sporadic recovery that followed it. He was also early to expose the 1990s stock market boom as a crucial part of a global financial bubble, forecasting that it would end when the Federal Reserve was forced to restrain the economy, causing a slowdown that would spiral into a severe recession and debt crisis.

Levy has given briefings, consultations, and testimony to members of Congress, administration officials, and Federal Reserve governors. He was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission to Study Capital Budgeting in 1997 and was also selected for the federal government’s Competitive Policy Council Infrastructure Subcouncil.

Levy is frequently quoted in the press and has appeared on numerous major broadcast and cable networks.

Early in his career, Levy spent two years in market research before leaving the field to work closely with S Jay Levy as an associate and then partner at Levy Economic Forecasts. He became the director of the Levy Institute Forecasting Center when it was established in 1991. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College from 1986 until 2001, at which time Levy Forecasts separated from the Institute and returned to the for-profit sector as the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, LLC.

Levy is the author of many articles and the coauthor, with S Jay Levy, of Profits and the Future of American Society, published by HarperCollins. He graduated from Williams College Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in mathematics and received an M.B.A. from the Columbia University School of Business.LESS

At the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, Srinivas has done ground-breaking research in a number of areas: the stock “wealth effect” on consumer behavior and its implications for total business profits; the persistent and pervasive overstatement of corporate earnings; mortgage equity extraction and its effect on the personal saving rate; the financial sector’s vulnerabilities to the housing bubble; the evolution of Japan’s balance sheets during its bubble and its aftermath; and the financial evolution of the Asian economies.

During his break from the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, Srinivas worked for three years for Kenmar, a fund of hedge funds, where he was a member of the investment committee. He was responsible for guiding the firms’ top-down asset allocation decisions and investment strategy. Additionally, he crafted an emerging markets investment program after traveling extensively to Asia, Europe and Latin America and meeting with numerous investment managers.

Srinivas has a PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis (Hyman Minsky’s last teaching post, where Srinivas studied with some of Minsky’s closest colleagues), an MBA, and a C.F.A. Before coming to the United States, Srinivas spent three years as a lending officer at ICICI Bank in India.

Srinivas is an avid bridge player and became the under-21 bridge champion of India in 1988 and represented India in the World Junior Bridge Championship in England, 1989.LESS