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Hawkeye wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:46 pm
I doubt he's nearly as stressed about how far he can raise rates under a Democrat without throwing us into a recession.
That's a pretty safe statement given we've already been in a recession for over a month now. One can never underestimate how quickly bad economic policy can bring down an economy.

Well, it’s a good thing that the current recession keeps seeing strong job and favorable unemployment numbers so far. Let’s hope that holds up.

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Hawkeye wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:46 pm
I doubt he's nearly as stressed about how far he can raise rates under a Democrat without throwing us into a recession.
That's a pretty safe statement given we've already been in a recession for over a month now. One can never underestimate how quickly bad economic policy can bring down an economy.
Uh, no, we're not in a recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales."

Recessions don't happen when nearly 400,000 jobs are being added monthly and the general population is spending money like drunken sailors. The reason for inflation has to do with consumer demand skyrocketing. People keep buying crap because they can afford it.

Personal savings rate is already back down to pre-pandemic levels.
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When the stats come out for the next quarter, it will confirm that we've been in a recession for over a month now.
The best part about this is waiting four years to see how all the crazy apocalyptic predictions made by the fear mongering idiots in Right Wing media turned out to be painfully wrong...Gasoline would hit $10/gallon. Hyperinflation would ensue.
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Hawkeye wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:00 pm
When the stats come out for the next quarter, it will confirm that we've been in a recession for over a month now.
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Hawkeye wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:46 pm
I doubt he's nearly as stressed about how far he can raise rates under a Democrat without throwing us into a recession.
That's a pretty safe statement given we've already been in a recession for over a month now. One can never underestimate how quickly bad economic policy can bring down an economy.
CFR on the claim that we've been in a recession for over a month. Humpty Dumpty claims don't count.

Both the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic are going to continue to destabilize the global economy for some time to come. Instability leads to a mismatch of goods demanded and goods supplied. The bullwhip effect is a good example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect U.S. retailers are sitting on inventories of items that no one wants to buy, while items in demand are short on supply. And supply chain interruptions make the mismatch between supply and demand even worse. Meanwhile, COVID is still causing a sufficient amount of sickness to introduce instability into the labor market. Because places of business are no longer taking precautions against infection, every place of employment becomes a potential site for a super spreading event. The small business where my son is employed literally ran out of healthy employees at one point because so many were too ill with COVID to come to work.

After the 2008 crash, the Fed kept the economy growing by holding interest rates down at an extreme low rate for an extended period of time. With the current labor shortage plus the embargo on Russian petroleum pushing up prices, the fed left itself lots of room to do what it does to avoid inflation -- raise interest rates. Will that cause a recession -- maybe. If you look at the process we use to determine when a recession has occurred, it generally takes a year or so after the trough to decide whether there has been a recession. That's because the entity that makes the determination looks at lots of factors, including duration, severity, and impacts on several different economic measures.

Given the length of the current expansion, a recession of some kind would not be a surprise. But proclaiming that we've been in a recession for a month displays only ignorance of how the economy actually works and the words we use to describe economic events. If you extrapolated the pre-pandemic GDP in a straight line based on the pre-pandemic trends, we're right at where we would expect to be if the pandemic had never happened. That's a pretty quick recovery from a world shattering event that isn't over yet.

Let's try less hysteria and more common sense.
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Hawkeye wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:00 pm
When the stats come out for the next quarter, it will confirm that we've been in a recession for over a month now.
No it won't. If we are in a recession, it will be confirmed after it ends. That's how it's done.
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Res Ipsa wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:14 pm
Hawkeye wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:46 pm


That's a pretty safe statement given we've already been in a recession for over a month now. One can never underestimate how quickly bad economic policy can bring down an economy.
CFR on the claim that we've been in a recession for over a month. Humpty Dumpty claims don't count.

Both the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic are going to continue to destabilize the global economy for some time to come. Instability leads to a mismatch of goods demanded and goods supplied. The bullwhip effect is a good example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect U.S. retailers are sitting on inventories of items that no one wants to buy, while items in demand are short on supply. And supply chain interruptions make the mismatch between supply and demand even worse. Meanwhile, COVID is still causing a sufficient amount of sickness to introduce instability into the labor market. Because places of business are no longer taking precautions against infection, every place of employment becomes a potential site for a super spreading event. The small business where my son is employed literally ran out of healthy employees at one point because so many were too ill with COVID to come to work.

After the 2008 crash, the Fed kept the economy growing by holding interest rates down at an extreme low rate for an extended period of time. With the current labor shortage plus the embargo on Russian petroleum pushing up prices, the fed left itself lots of room to do what it does to avoid inflation -- raise interest rates. Will that cause a recession -- maybe. If you look at the process we use to determine when a recession has occurred, it generally takes a year or so after the trough to decide whether there has been a recession. That's because the entity that makes the determination looks at lots of factors, including duration, severity, and impacts on several different economic measures.

Given the length of the current expansion, a recession of some kind would not be a surprise. But proclaiming that we've been in a recession for a month displays only ignorance of how the economy actually works and the words we use to describe economic events. If you extrapolated the pre-pandemic GDP in a straight line based on the pre-pandemic trends, we're right at where we would expect to be if the pandemic had never happened. That's a pretty quick recovery from a world shattering event that isn't over yet.

Let's try less hysteria and more common sense.
Now do lockdowns and sanctions.
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Binger wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:42 pm
Res Ipsa wrote:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 5:14 pm


CFR on the claim that we've been in a recession for over a month. Humpty Dumpty claims don't count.

Both the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic are going to continue to destabilize the global economy for some time to come. Instability leads to a mismatch of goods demanded and goods supplied. The bullwhip effect is a good example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect U.S. retailers are sitting on inventories of items that no one wants to buy, while items in demand are short on supply. And supply chain interruptions make the mismatch between supply and demand even worse. Meanwhile, COVID is still causing a sufficient amount of sickness to introduce instability into the labor market. Because places of business are no longer taking precautions against infection, every place of employment becomes a potential site for a super spreading event. The small business where my son is employed literally ran out of healthy employees at one point because so many were too ill with COVID to come to work.

After the 2008 crash, the Fed kept the economy growing by holding interest rates down at an extreme low rate for an extended period of time. With the current labor shortage plus the embargo on Russian petroleum pushing up prices, the fed left itself lots of room to do what it does to avoid inflation -- raise interest rates. Will that cause a recession -- maybe. If you look at the process we use to determine when a recession has occurred, it generally takes a year or so after the trough to decide whether there has been a recession. That's because the entity that makes the determination looks at lots of factors, including duration, severity, and impacts on several different economic measures.

Given the length of the current expansion, a recession of some kind would not be a surprise. But proclaiming that we've been in a recession for a month displays only ignorance of how the economy actually works and the words we use to describe economic events. If you extrapolated the pre-pandemic GDP in a straight line based on the pre-pandemic trends, we're right at where we would expect to be if the pandemic had never happened. That's a pretty quick recovery from a world shattering event that isn't over yet.

Let's try less hysteria and more common sense.
Now do lockdowns and sanctions.
You do them.
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If we are in a recession, it will be confirmed after it ends. That's how it's done.
When the quarter ends and it's confirmed that we were and are in a recession (2 consecutive quarters of economic contraction) Kamala Harris will say that the new data doesn't account for the 20 cents that gasoline dropped, so maybe we're already out of the recession and don't know it yet.

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The best part about this is waiting four years to see how all the crazy apocalyptic predictions made by the fear mongering idiots in Right Wing media turned out to be painfully wrong...Gasoline would hit $10/gallon. Hyperinflation would ensue.
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