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Project 2025: So All Your Hurricane Projections Can Look Like This

Envisaging Milton under Trump 2.0: Source: NOAA. Following: Source:Time, Feb 1, 2020. From Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise on page 666: The

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GDPNow Up to 3.2% SAAR

GDPNow up from 2.5% on 10/1 to 3.2% on 10/8 (q/q AR), on the basis of auto sales and employment situation releases. Source: Atlanta Fed,

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No Recession in 2022H1: Edition MMMXXVII

Reader Steven Kopits writes: Two down quarters in 2021. Typical definition of a recession. I don’t believe I have declared a recession since. No negative

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Business Cycle Indicators for the Euro Area, as of 10/4/2024

The CEPR-EABCN is one arbiter of business cycle chronologies in the Euro Area. The latest announcement is from April 17, 2024. What do more recent

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EJ Antoni/Heritage Foundation (Aug 5): “I would not be surprised if a recession is backdated to July or the current month”

From FoxNews. Here’s a picture of indicators followed by the NBER’s BCDC over the past year. Note that August numbers are mostly up. Figure 1:

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Will Household Wealth Be a Tailwind to Consumption in 2024Q3?

Here’s a picture of household net worth, in both nominal and real terms, with my nowcasts for Q3. Figure 1: Household net worth (blue), nowcast

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State of the Macro Economy, 10/6/2024: 19 Indicators and 4 Nowcasts

NBER BCDC indicators, alternative indicators, weekly indicators, nowcasts. As one who noted the high likelihood of recession by August 2024, I can’t see a downturn

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Employment Overall, and at Smaller Firms

While overall private employment has risen, firms with 1-49 employees have kept employment flat in recent months. Figure 1: Private nonfarm payroll employment from CES

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“Fake” Economic Activity | Econbrowser

A common refrain I see in some conservative circles is that employment gains or GDP are juiced by “fake” activity, of which government spending is

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Did Government Employment Account for Most of September’s Employment Gains?

ZeroHedge and EJ Antoni assert yes, relying on the household series… Figure 1: Total change in civilian employment (bold black), change attributable to government employment