Ernie Goss is currently the MacAllister Chair and Professor of Economics at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tennessee in 1983. He was a visiting scholar with the Congressional Budget Office for 2003-04. In the Fall of 2005, the Nebraska Attorney General appointed Goss to head a task force examining gasoline pricing in the state. He is editor of Economic Trends, an economics newsletter published three times per year. He is the past president of the Omaha Association of Business Economics, and the National Purchasing Management Association-Nebraska. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Mosaic, Inc. To gauge regional economic conditions, Goss conducts a monthly survey of bank CEOs in rural areas of 11 states and a monthly survey of supply managers in 12 states. Results from the two surveys are carried in over 100 newspapers, 20-30 radio stations and scores of other media outlets each

month. Recent citations appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, as well as regional newspapers such as the Denver Post, the Kansas City Star, and the Minneapolis Pioneer Press.