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06/09/2015

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"I have been on a break from posting to my blog here. I will be back soon."

Glad to hear that. I was starting to wonder.

None of my life experience has prepared me for what I am seeing. It is a slow motion economic wreck. After each quarter there is a delay then some not so bad numbers, then after another delay we see all the other data and the overall result is still negative.

The latest wrinkle is the latest attempt to 'dress up' the 1st quarter data with a change in the seasonal adjustments. Of course this has not been necessary in the past so what has changed? This is going to make it difficult to compare current seasonally adjusted data with the older data. And if we ever get a real recovery then they will have to go back to the older seasonal adjustments.

Jim,
Your analogy of slow motion economic wreck is really good.

Hi Edward. A couple of weeks ago Naked Capitalism was kind enough to publish my post: "The Standard Definition of Money is in Error. "

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/the-standard-definition-of-money-is-in-error.html

You may be interested, as my claim is that money is neither a measure or store of value, but instead a measure and store of demand.

greg

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Data as of 3rdQ-2018
Effective Demand = $18.433 trillion
Real GDP = $18.671 trillion
Productive Capacity = $24.872 trillion
UT index is at effective demand limit = -0.92%
Effective demand limit = 74.1%
TFUR = 75.1%
ED Fed rate rule = 4.0%
Estimated Natural Real Interest rate = 2.3%
Short-term real interest rate = 2.8%

There is no recession for 3rdQ-2018. Chance of recession is growing as economy has now reached 2nd effective demand limit in this business cycle. I am forecasting that economic conditions will begin to contract in the second half of 2018.




Click on Graphs below to see updated data at FRED.

UT Index (measure of slack):

The UT Index

z-vertical:

z-vertical

z derivatives in terms of labor & capital:

z derivatives in terms of labor & capital

Effective Demand, real GDP & Potential GDP:

ED, real GDP & pot rGDP

ED Output Gap:

ED Output gap

Corporate profit rate over real cost of money:

Corp profit rate over real cost of money

Exponential decay of Inflation:

Corporate profits impact Inflation

Measures of Inflation:

Measures of Inflation

YoY Employment change:

YoY employment change

Speed of consuming slack: yoy monthly:

Speed of consuming slack

Speed of consuming slack: quarterly:

Speed of consuming slack quarterly

Real consumption per Employee:

real consumption per employee 2

Will real wages ever rise faster than productivity?:

Productivity & Real Wages

Productivity:

Productivity

Productivity against Effective Demand limit:

Prod & ED limit

Bottom of Initial Claims?:

Initial claims

Tracking inflation expectations:

Fisher effect?

M2 velocity still falling:

Measures of Inflation

All in one:

All in one

Double checking labor share with unit labor costs & inflation:

ULC LS CPI
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Edward Lambert: Independent Researcher on Effective Demand. Graduate of Atlantic International University where independent research was developed.
Some links for economic analysis
Fed Views - San Francisco Fed, around 10th of each month.
Well's Fargo monthly - around 10th of each month
Well's Fargo weekly
Well's Fargo Interest rate report
Well's Fargo Economic indicators
T. Rowe Price weekly market wrap-up
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