Edgar Fiedler

Fiedler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later lived in Scarsdale, New York, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.^[1] He was a 1951 graduate of the University of Wisconsin.^[1] He received an M.B.A. at the University of Michigan in 1956, and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University in 1970.^[1]

He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1971 to 1975 during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.^[1]

He served as vice president, economic counselor, senior fellow and adviser of The Conference Board, a business research organization in Manhattan, which he first joined in 1975.^[1] He edited its monthly publication, Economic Times.^[2]

In the 1980s he was an adjunct professor of economics at the Columbia Graduate School of Business.^[2] He authored The Roots of Stagflation (1984).^[3][1]

He wrote the following wry rules for economic forecasters: “If you must forecast, forecast often. And if you’re ever right, never let ’em forget it.”^[4]