From reputable studies, that is. CEA concludes in its report on the OBBB:
$1.3 to $3.7 trillion in additional offsetting deficit reduction from higher growth unleashed by enhanced deregulation and energy policies
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“That Drop in Consumer Income in May Was a False Recession Alarm”
That’s the title of an article from yesterday. Maybe, but the drop in consumption spending might be. Also, personal income excluding transfers also decline in May…
Dollar Decline and Incipient Inflationary Pressures
Trump has indicated his desire for a weaker dollar. It looks like he’s getting it.
GDP Nowcast Dispersion plus Slowing Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers
From GDP Q1 3rd release and nowcasts plus tracking. GDPNow is down on personal income and spending release, advanced economic indicators, as well as the Q1 3rd release.
Business Cycle Indicators: The Slowdown Cometh?
Personal income, consumption both down in May, with today’s release. Industrial production, civilian employment in NFP concept down from previous releases. Monthly GDP from SPGMI and manufacturing and trade industry sales down in April…it’s reasonable to ask whether this is all signaling something.
Manufacturing Value Added Flat
So much for a manufacturing renaissance, post-“Liberation Day”.
“The International Monetary System, the PBoC and the RMB, Fragmentation & Decoupling, Fragmentation and Inflation”
Those are some of the topic areas of this year’s NBER International Seminar in Macroeconomics, which took place in Split, Croatia.
Bob McCauley: “Downgrading Uncle Sam, not America”
In McCauley’s VoxEU post (first of three), he presents a pictorial depiction of exorbitant privilege:
GDP Nowcasts as of 6/20
NY Fed, St. Louis Fed, GS tracking:
Industrial and Manufacturing Production, Real Retail Sales – Business Cycle Indicators
With industrial production, we have the following picture of series the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee focuses on: