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