Ira Jersey is the Chief U.S. Interest Rate Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, a division of Bloomberg LP, and is based in Princeton, NJ. He provides both top-down and bottom-up perspectives on U.S. Treasury, money market and related derivative markets including the impact of the Federal Reserve, Congressional policy, the Federal budget, and Treasury issuance. He regularly appears on Bloomberg TV and radio. His work can be found at BI RATES on the Bloomberg Terminal.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Intelligence, Ira was a Strategist for the taxable fixed income teams at Oppenheimer Funds. He spent more than decade in fixed income research at Credit Suisse Securities and RBC Capital Markets most recently as the Head of U.S. Interest Rate Strategy at Credit Suisse. Early in his career he held positions at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and The Vanguard Group

His education includes an MA in Economics from New School University in New York; an MA in International Studies from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom; and a BA in Political Science and Broadcast Journalism from The American University in Washington, DC. He is a member of the American Finance Associate and the National Association of Business Economics

Ira is an amateur historian on colonial American history. Given this passion Ira is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Association of Blauvelt Descendants, the Holland Society of New York, and the Sons of the Revolution.