Weekly Macro Indicators – Growth At About Trend

Menzie Chinn
By Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser.com
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin •

In this article, we shall review weekly indices of economic activity, % as of 2/25/2025.

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For data available through 2/15. New datapoints tomorrow, for data available through 2/22.

Figure 1: Weekly Economic Index (Lewis-Mertens-Stock/NY Fed) (blue), and Weekly Economic Conditions Index (Baumeister Leiva-Leon, Sims) (brown), both in %. Soiurce: NY Fed via FRED, Weekly State Indexes.

WEI in particular is off a recent peak.

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