Robert Brusca

Robert A. Brusca is the chief economist of Fact and Opinion Economics, a consulting firm he founded in Manhattan. His research is either by subscription, or delivered in his substack (robertbrusca.substack.com), found daily on Haver Analytics, or periodically on Seeking Alpha. He was a divisional research chief at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY (chief of the International Financial Markets Division), a fed watcher at Irving Trust, and chief economist at Nikko Securities International (for 16 years). Mr. Brusca is also a past professor graduate program at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in Manhattan. He has been an economist on Wall Street for 48 years and has visited central banking and large institutional clients in over 30 countries in his career as an economist, and he contributes Op-Eds to Marketwatch. Mr Brusca currently is a consultant. He is currently operating the second of two consulting firms he has founded since 2001 and is widely quoted and appears in various media. Mr. Brusca holds an MA and PhD in economics from Michigan State University and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research pursues his strong interests in nonaligned policy economics, central banking, investing, as well as international economics. FAO Economics’ research targets investors to assist them in making better investment decisions in stocks, bonds, and in a variety of international assets. The company does not manage money and has no conflicts in giving economic advice. Mr Brusca, or his comments, appear in a wide variety of media outlets.