Jan Hatzius

Jan Hatzius is head of global economics research and chief economist at Goldman Sachs, where he has been the primary voice on US economic conditions for many years. His team's research on Federal Reserve policy, labor market dynamics, credit conditions, and GDP growth is the most widely followed sell-side economic research on Wall Street. Hatzius is known for his disciplined, data-driven approach to economic forecasting and for being willing to take contrarian positions when the evidence supports them, including correctly forecasting the depths of the 2008 recession. His team's proprietary financial conditions index is widely cited in central bank and academic research as a practical measure of the tightness or ease of overall financial market conditions, and his team's election forecasting models and fiscal policy analysis are closely followed by fixed income and FX traders seeking to anticipate policy-driven macro shifts.