Ed Yardeni

Edward Yardeni (born March 15, 1950) is an Israeli-born American economist and the president of Yardeni Research, which offers economic research and recommendations to clients. He is also the former chief economist for EF Hutton, Prudential Securities, and C. J. Lawrence.

Yardeni is known for coining the "Fed model", a disputed theory of equity valuation, as well as the term "bond vigilante". He generally predicts a positive market trend for the stock market, although his predictions in 1999 of disruptions due to the Year 2000 problem were incorrect.