Must-read: Macro Advisers: Now-Cast: Personal income and outlays way undershot expectations…

Must-Read: Macro Advisers: Now-Cast: First-quarter real GDP growth at 1.0%/year:

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They will probably be angry at me for posting this, but it is genuine news: personal income and outlays way undershot expectations, and so they have marked down their estimate for first-quarter 2016 real GDP growth from the 1.9%/year it was five days ago to 1.0%/year now.

Certainly makes last December look like a bad time to stop sniffing glue the zero-interest-rate policy, doesn’t it?

March 28, 2016

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