The Council on Foreign Relations highlights the weakness of the recent economic recovery in their quarterly update (via Warren Mosler):
- Real GDP is growing, but weakly compared with the postwar average recovery.
- The recovery from the 1980 recession was even weaker at this stage, but that reflected a double-dip recession in 1981.
- The economy would have to grow at a 7.6 percent annualized rate in order to catch up with the average postwar recovery by the end of 2012.
- The consensus forecast for 2012 growth as reported by Bloomberg is 2.1 percent, up just slightly from a forecast of 2.0 percent as of last October.
- The slow recovery is obvious in the labor market, where job growth remains painfully sluggish compared to the average recovery.
- The recent uptick at the end of the Current Recovery linev(red) is the result of encouraging payroll data announced on January 6th 2012.
- Because of the depth of the recent recession, one might expect stronger-than-average improvement in industrial production.
- Despite the predicted snapback, the increase in industrial production during this recovery is actually slightly slower than in the average postwar case.
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Mr. Roche is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Discipline Funds.Discipline Funds is a low fee financial advisory firm with a focus on helping people be more disciplined with their finances.
He is also the author of Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Understand About Money and Finance, Understanding the Modern Monetary System and Understanding Modern Portfolio Construction.
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