Industrial production is out, -0.6% m/m vs. consensus -0.3%. Here’s the picture of business cycle indicators followed by the NBER’s BCDC, along with SPGMI’s (nee Macroeconomic Advisers) monthly GDP:
Instantaneous Inflation in October
Core PPI flat, vs. +0.3% m/m consensus. Here’re instaneous core CPI and PPI inflation (per Eeckhout):
CRFB at TGTCPL (at UW Madison)
Mike Murphy of the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget gave a presentation at UW’s Tommy G.Thomson Center for Public Leadership, yesterday. I couldn’t attend, but the video is here.
CRFB has handy tool for gaming out modifications to current law to see the impact on the deficit and debt (w/o dynamic scoring). It’s so nifty, in fact, I assigned it to my undergrad public affairs course.
Chinn-Ito Measure of Financial Openness in 2021
Just published, Chinn-Ito index, available here. Normalized to [0,1], with 1 being most open, here’s the world.
GDP and Interest Rate Forecasts and Recession from the SPF
The Q4 Survey of Professional Forecasters was released Monday. Accelerated growth is forecast, no yield curve dis-inversion, and triggering of the Sahm rule.
CPI Inflation in October
Headline CPI flat (below +0.1% consensus), and core CPI inflation at 0.2% (below +0.3% consensus). Here are some pictures of central tendency, trend:
Taiwan Straits Balance of Forces, 2023
From DoD’s 2023 report on PRC’s military and security developments.
Growth Nowcasts for Q4
Atlanta Fed, NY Fed, and St. Louis Fed are for 2.1%, 2.51%, and 1.9%, SAAR respectively.
ShadowStats Online No More
So the world sometimes gets better. ShadowStats reports May CPI y/y inflation at above 7.5%.