Linda Goldberg and Signe Krogstrup have a revised version of a paper entitled “International Capital Flow Pressures and Global Factors”. They write:
Revisiting Exchange Market Pressure
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Remembering (or Not) the Recession of 2022H1
Compiling a bunch of labor market data, we have the following picture of the private nonfarm labor sector, which seems to run counter to the argument last made a month ago that a recession occurred in 2022H1.
Carl Walsh Blogging “Thoughts on Fed Policy”
Carl Walsh, author of Monetary Theory and Policy, joins the econ-blogging community at his blog. His most recent post is on the four surges in inflation.
The Employment Release and Business Cycle Indicators
With the release of the January 2023 Employment Situation release incorporating benchmark revisions we have the following picture of business cycle indicators followed by the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, along with IHS Markit/SP Global monthly GDP (released on Wednesday):
The Employment Situation Release: Benchmark Revisions and Seasonality
The Employment Situation release for January 2023 incorporated annual benchmark revisions to establishment survey series, and reported population controls for the household survey series. NFP at 517 thousand exceeded the Bloomberg consensus of 115 thousand.
Guest Contribution: “Gauging Recessions with the Jobs-Workers Gap – January 2023”
Today, we are fortunate to present a guest contribution written by Paweł Skrzypczyński, economist at the National Bank of Poland. The views expressed herein are those of the author and should not be attributed to the National Bank of Poland.
We present an update of the jobs-workers gap discussed in previous posts: [1], [2], [3].
The Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance and Federal Debt Held by the Public: Time Series
As a share of potential GDP (CBO May 2022 estimates):
Recession Probabilities Incorporating Foreign Term Spreads
Foreign term spreads in several major financial centers have inverted (you can see the yield curves here). What is the probability of a recession 12 months ahead, using the 10yr-3mo term spread, the foreign (Germany, UK, Japan, Canada) 10yr-3mo term spread, and the national Financial Conditions Index (FCI), as suggested by Ahmed and Chinn (2022)? Answer: High
Different Recession Predictors at Different Horizons
Michael Kiley (FRB) has recently circulated a working paper showing that various indicators have greater predictive power at different horizons. Other papers have shown this for different term spreads, for credit spreads, foreign term spreads; in this case, Kiley shows unemployment and inflation have more predictive power at long horizons than short.
China GDP and Forecasts
Chinese GDP for q4 was released a couple weeks ago, show a resumption of growth. The IMF has upped its growth forecast (WEO), relative to October’s, by nearly a percentage point (y/y). Nonetheless, the level of GDP will match roughly what was expected back in April’s report.