Russell Investments Chief Economist Dueker Found Dead

[jakeXT]

Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. He was 50.

He may have jumped over a 4-foot (1.2-meter) fence before falling down a 40- to 50-foot embankment, Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer said yesterday. He said the death appeared to be a suicide.


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Dueker worked at Seattle-based Russell for five years, and developed a business-cycle index that forecast economic performance. He was previously an assistant vice president and research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

He published dozens of research papers over the past two decades, many on monetary policy, according to the St. Louis Fed’s website, which ranks him among the top 5 percent of economists by number of works published. His most-cited work was a 1997 paper titled “Strengthening the case for the yield curve as a predictor of U.S. recessions,” published by the reserve bank while he was a researcher there.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/russell-investments-chief-economist-dueker-found-dead.html

[cilla4progress]

1. Is this Seahawks QB Russell Wilson's

company? I know he does ads for them -- fundraises, too, I think?

[jakeXT]

2. Sounds like he had a partnership with them, but the company is from 1936

On July 18, 2013, Wilson announced a partnership with Russell Investments in which the company will donate $2,000 to Wilson's charitable organization, The Power of Mind Foundation, for every Seahawks touchdown that Wilson scores during the 2013 regular and post-season.[99][100]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Wilson#Endorsements

[cilla4progress]

3. Yep.

[ms.smiler]

4. A Rash of Deaths and a Missing Reporter With Ties to Wall Street Investigations

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/a-rash-of-deaths-and-a-missing-reporter-%E2%80%93-with-ties-to-wall-street-investigations/

"When a series of tragic events involving one industry occur within an 18-day timeframe, the statistical probability of these events being random is remote. According to a number of media reports, JPMorgan is conducting an internal investigation of the death of Gabriel Magee. Given that JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Russell Investments are subjects themselves of investigations, a more serious, independent look at these deaths is called for."