M1 and M2 money supply for May were reported yesterday by the Fed. The former was unchanged for the month, and the latter was up a tiny 0.1%:

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That is significant. Why? Because the real money supply is a long leading indicator. Real M2 fell out of favor after failing to actually decline YoY prior to the 2001 and 2008 recessions, but a YoY% decline in real M1 and a real YoY% gain of M2 of less than 2.5% is nevertheless an excellent leading indicator for recession:

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Here is a close-up of the past year:

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Both real M1 and real M2 are outright negative as of May.

There have been several false positives for this indicator: 1967, 1987, and 1994. But otherwise, every time this has happened, a recession has followed within 9 months to 2 years.

Additionally, the Chicago Fed updated its financial conditions indexes this morning. The Adjusted National Conditions Index rose to +.15, and the Leverage Index rose to +.53. With the exceptions of 1987 and 2011, both of these are at levels typically associated with oncoming recessions:

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In sum, the long leading indicators continue to worsen. The only unambiguously positive indicator at the moment is the Treasury yield curve (and even there, the 10-year minus 2-year spread is *almost* - but not quite - inverted).