Manufacturing employment is up relative to 3 years ago. Why so much dissatisfaction?
Wisconsin Macro Conditions and Economic Sentiment
In Recession? Real Time vs. Final Revised Data
Di Martino Booth points to the McKelvey rule, which uses a 0.3 ppt threshold instead of the Sahm 0.5 ppt threshold. This indicator does seem to signal a recession as shown in the figure below.
Legislative Fiscal Bureau (Aug 2017): “August 2017 Special Session Assembly Bill 1: Foxconn/Fiserv Legislation”
Here’s the entire Legislative Fiscal Bureau document on Foxconn (since links to original site do not work in my previous post “Wisconsin FoxConned by Walker et al.”:
Russia Slows, Struggles to Supply the War Effort
From BOFIT:
Brad Setser: “Power and Financial Interdependence”
Wisconsin FoxConned by Walker et al.
On the day in which President Biden announced the repurposing of the site that was to be Foxconn’s, I reprint this 2017 assessment.
May 2024 Short Term Energy Outlook: WTI, gasoline prices
From EIA (May 7, 2024):
The Wisconsin Macroeconomy: Latest Available Readings
Some data, as President Biden visits (CNN):
Tracking Wisconsin Manufacturing: Did Tariffs Help?
In a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (via Pulitzer) Rick Barrett notes “Manufacturing is coming home” to Wisconsin. Does the data support this?