Robert C. Fry, Jr., PhD, CBE, is Chief Economist of Robert Fry Economics LLC, where he helps manufacturing companies and wealth management firms. Until retiring in June 2015, he was Senior Economist at DuPont where he made over 800 speeches to management and trade associations. He and Bob Shrouds were cited as top economists by Bloomberg, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. They won the prestigious Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecasting Accuracy, making the DuPont Economist’s Office the only three-time winner of the award. Member of NABE and the Conference of Business Economists.