Join the Team

Spring 2025 Application Form (~10 min)

We’re looking for new team members to join us in the spring for the 2025-26 season!

If you’re interested in learning about macroeconomics, monetary policy, and the Fed, we’d love to have you on board.

Our application process consists of a resume drop and two interviews. No prior economics/debating experience necessary.

Fill out the application form by midnight on 2/23!

Questions? Email us here.

What is the Fed Challenge?

The national College Fed Challenge is an annual competition focusing on macroeconomics and monetary policy hosted by the Federal Reserve for US colleges and universities.

This season, we’ll work together to prepare and deliver the two components of the competition in Fall 2025:

Presentation

We’ll prepare a detailed presentation that contains an analysis of current economic conditions; a forecast of near-term economic and financial conditions; a discussion of significant risks to the economy; and a monetary policy recommendation.

Q&A

Following the presentation, we’ll answer questions from the judges about recommendations made in the presentation and macroeconomic theory as well as hypothetical questions or questions about the Fed.

Sample presentation

Sample Q&A

Competitive success

Since 2007, we’ve been …

We won the national competition in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2023 (most recently out of 100+ colleges and universities)
We finished as the national runner-up in 2017, 2019, and 2024 (most recently out of 120+ colleges and universities).
We won the Boston regional competition 8 times: in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, and 2019.