{"id":271908,"date":"2025-02-28T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/off-a-cliff-econbrowser\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:14","slug":"off-a-cliff-econbrowser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/off-a-cliff-econbrowser\/","title":{"rendered":"Off a Cliff | Econbrowser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee key indicators. Consumption (preliminary) falls markedly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/recindic_jan25d.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55812\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/recindic_jan25d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/recindic_jan25d.png 849w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/recindic_jan25d-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/recindic_jan25d-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/recindic_jan25d-624x391.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Nonfarm Payroll incl benchmark revision employment from CES (bold blue), implied NFP from preliminary benchmark through December (blue), civilian employment as reported (orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold light green), manufacturing and trade sales in Ch.2017$ (black), consumption in Ch.2017$ (light blue), and monthly GDP in Ch.2017$ (pink), GDP (blue bars), all log normalized to 2021M11=0. Source: BLS via FRED, Federal Reserve, BEA 2024Q4 advance release,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/marketintelligence\/en\/mi\/research-analysis\/us-monthly-gdp-index-for-october-2022.html\">S&amp;P Global Market Insights<\/a>\u00a0(nee Macroeconomic Advisers, IHS Markit) (2\/3\/<\/em><em>2025 release), and author\u2019s calculations.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GDPNow drops precipitously, to -1.4% q\/q annualized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gdppix31.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55813\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gdppix31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1022\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gdppix31.png 1022w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gdppix31-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gdppix31-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gdppix31-624x352.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 2:<\/strong> GDP (bold black), Survey of Professional Forecasters February survey (teal), GDPNow of 2\/28 (blue square), NY Fed nowcast of 2\/28 (red triangle). Source: BEA, Philadelphia Fed, Atlanta Fed, NY Fed, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Off a cliff refers to this picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cliff1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55814\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cliff1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cliff1.png 849w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cliff1-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cliff1-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cliff1-624x412.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 3:<\/strong> Retail sales deflated by chained CPI (blue), real consumption (tan), real manufacturing and trade industries sales (green), all month-on-month growth rates annualized (using log differences). Source: BEA, Census, St. Louis Fed via FRED, and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/02\/off-a-cliff\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee key indicators. Consumption (preliminary) falls markedly. 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