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From NY and Philly Fed Banks: manufacturing continues leading the way towards recession 🧵... Image
NY Fed manufacturing survey has gyrated violently recently but has averaged below zero (contraction territory) for a year; price increases have slowed but not stopped; labor market contracting; planned investment remains low: ImageImageImageImage
Philly Fed manufacturing survey has shown contraction 10 months in a row w/ new orders (canary in coalmine) negative for over a year straight; employment flatlined this month but shortening of workweeks accelerated: ImageImageImageImage
Oddly, the NY and Philly surveys have tended to move in opposite directions for about a year, one improves when the other worsens; averaging both shows a dismal manufacturing sector leading the economy into #recession: Image

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Jun 15
A key factor that has been manipulated to bring down headline inflation numbers, but will soon keep inflation alive and well🧵... Image
Wholesale inflation (price increases paid by business) rose 17% from Jan '21 to Jun '22, but then index flatlined, causing y/y headline number to plummet; despite several index components continuing to rise, Jun '23 headline PPI will be near zero: Image
PPI has been dragged down over the last year by falling oil prices, w/ energy cutting the index's rise by 59%; oil's nonenergy derivatives and byproducts have further reduced the index - and the oil has come from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Image
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Jun 13
Latest from BLS shows we're still paying the hidden tax of inflation; average family effectively $7,200 poorer than Jan '21 🧵... Image
Price increases have slowed significantly (disinflation) but no widespread decreases in prices (deflation); that reduces the headline y/y number (4.0%) but people are still paying the inflation tax until earnings catch up with price increases: Image
Real hourly earnings don't tell the whole story b/c hours have been getting cut, so real weekly earnings are down even more - now down 5.1% since Jan '21, lowest level since Jun '22: Image
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Jun 12
Latest US Treasury data show we're on unsustainable path: interest on the debt was a whopping $61 billion in May, more than was spent on veterans benefits and services, education, and transportation COMBINED; interest costs were a quarter of the deficit last month: Image
Also note that the Treasury's graphic is deceptive, w/ no note that it isn't to scale - "deficit" of $240B is numerically larger than "social insurance & retirement" receipts of $140B, but "deficit" is half the size in the graphic: Image
The deficit is substantially worse than last fiscal year, with 8 months' worth of deficits almost equal to previous 12 months' deficits; fiscal year to date deficit is 2.7 times the same period from previous fiscal year: Image
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Jan 26
Sure enough, #GDP and consumer spending came in below Atlanta Fed projection and some very troubling details as we look under the hood... 🧵
consumer spending contributed just 1.42 percentage points (pp), investment an anemic 0.27 pp, net exports 0.56 pp, and gov't 0.64 pp
The gain from net exports is not a good sign: both imports and exports are falling, imports are just falling faster; international trade slowdown is not a sign of wealth for Americans
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