Q3 GDP: good news for now, bad news for the future – by New Deal democrat I have to keep this note brief, since I am on the road. As you presumably already know, real GDP was positive for the Third Quarter, up 2.6% at an annual rate: Subject to revisions in the next several months of course, but for the moment, this puts to rest ideas that the US economy was in a recession earlier this year, since the decline was very shallow and not across all important indicators. The news on the leading components of GDP was mixed. Proprietors’ income, a proxy for corporate profits, which won’t be reported for another month, were up 1.5% (blue in the graph below). The “official” leading metric uses unit labor costs as a deflator, which we also
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Q3 GDP: good news for now, bad news for the future
– by New Deal democrat
I have to keep this note brief, since I am on the road.
As you presumably already know, real GDP was positive for the Third Quarter, up 2.6% at an annual rate:
Subject to revisions in the next several months of course, but for the moment, this puts to rest ideas that the US economy was in a recession earlier this year, since the decline was very shallow and not across all important indicators.
The news on the leading components of GDP was mixed.
Proprietors’ income, a proxy for corporate profits, which won’t be reported for another month, were up 1.5% (blue in the graph below). The “official” leading metric uses unit labor costs as a deflator, which we also don’t know yet. But if ULC are in line with the past several quarters (red), real proprietors’ income was probably flat:
Finally, real private residential investment, the was housing is included in GDP, took a bad hit:
Housing is just about screaming “incoming recession!” at this point.
So: good news for the present, bad news for the near future.
While I’m at it, here’s this week’s update on jobless claims:
No big move here. No real deterioration, but no improvement either.
“First comments on Q2 GDP, no Recession Yet.” Angry Bear
“Q1 GDP negative; but more importantly, two of three long leading indicators have deteriorated,” Angry Bear