Just who is this Jack Kyser character?

He turns up everywhere. Recently, we've seen Jack Kyser in the pages and Web pages of the Daily Breeze and our sister papers and heard him on the public radio show Marketplace broadcast on KCRW (89.9 FM). He's been quoted by The Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, the Detroit Free Press, the Toronto Star, Bloomberg News, the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the Hollywood Reporter, The Age (a newspaper in Australia) and countless others. But who is this go-to economics expert? Jack Kyser is the senior vice president and chief economist of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. Care for the long version? Here's his biography on the L.A. Economic Development Corp. Web site, and here's a piece about him on MyCoolCareer.com, a Web site for teenagers and twentysomethings thinking about their futures.