Executive Vice President and Chief Economist
BMO Financial Group

Dr. Sherry Cooper is in constant demand as a speaker and writer because of her ability to simplify and de-mystify the complex subjects of economics and finance. Sherry is also very good at what she does. She received the Lawrence Klein Award for U.S. forecasting accuracy in 2010, beating out a panel of 50 economists predicting the four-year period from 2006 to 2009. This was no mean feat, as the period encompassed the U.S. housing bubble, financial crisis, recession and recovery.

Canada’s national newspaper calls Sherry “the megawatt celebrity economist”. She leads a highly respected team of economists and has been repeatedly cited as one of the most influential women in Canada. Dr, Cooper is regularly quoted in the financial press and you have heard her often on radio and TV. Sherry published her third book, The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future in January 2008 and it was a blockbuster bestseller.

Sherry Cooper is now a member of the American Bankers' Association (ABA) Economic Advisory Committee, a renowned group of bank economists that meets twice a year to provide perspectives on the U.S. and local economies to top policymakers and to produce an economic forecast. Read more in this BMO Finanical Group press release.

The New Retirement
How It Will Change Our Future

In The New Retirement, global economic strategist Sherry Cooper explains ... MORE

Ride the Wave
Take Control in the Acceleration Age

In Ride the Wave, Dr. Sherry Cooper shows how ... MORE

The Cooper Files
A Practical Guide to Your Financial Future

Never before in history has change ... MORE

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December 12, 2012
FOMC Takes Historic Move
For the first time in modern history, the Fed’s policymaking committee has announced an unemployment rate ‘threshold’—established at 6½% or lower MORE

December 7, 2012
Canada's Growth Unexciting, But Fundamentals Strong
The Canadian economy has been growing at a sub-2% pace in 2012, well below last year’s pace MORE

November 30, 2012
Fiscal Debate Redux
With much of the focus in Washington on the fiscal cliff, which is now only one month away, a potentially more important cliffhanger is the debt-ceiling debate—likely to come to its precipice in February 2013 MORE

November 23, 2012
Be Careful What We Hope For
A compromise on the fiscal cliff and a plan to shift the trajectory of U.S. debt downward are important and necessary MORE

November 16, 2012
Why I'm Bullish about the U.S. Economy
We have reduced our Canadian growth estimate to a mere 1% in the third quarter owing to a contraction in residential construction and business investment in machinery and equipment MORE

November 14, 2012
Austerity versus Growth - The U.S. Fiscal Cliff
Major changes to current U.S. tax and spending law are needed to put the government budget on a sustainable path MORE

November 12, 2012
Canadian Businesses Face Headwinds, But Opportunities Abound
We have reduced our Canadian growth estimate to a mere 1% in the third quarter owing to a contraction in residential construction and business investment in machinery and equipment MORE

November 7, 2012
Decisive Victory
President Obama posted a decisive victory Tuesday night by stringing together a series of smaller ones MORE

October 19, 2012
Surprising Developments in the Gender Gap
As a female member of the baby boom generation, I began my economics career as pretty much the only woman in the room—from graduate school to the Fed to Bay Street MORE

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