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Steven Hansen

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Steven Hansen, Publisher and Co-founder of EconCurrents, is an international business and industrial consultant specializing in turning around troubled business units; consults to governments to optimize process flows; and provides economic indicator analysis based on unadjusted data and process ...more
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May 2015 Economic Forecast: Slower Growth Continues With Confirming Evidence Of Economic Weakness
Monday, April 27, 2015 11:38 AM EDT
Economic Index is indicating growth will continue to be soft in May. The tracked sectors of the economy are relatively soft with most expanding but some contracting.
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Austerity Vs. Deficit Spending - Is There No Science In Economics?
Saturday, April 25, 2015 3:01 PM EDT
It seems unlikely that economics will ever rise to be a science. If it ever does it will be because the structures of both data and analysis reach entirely different points than they have to date.
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Durable Goods Improved In March 2015? The Data Continues To Show Economic Softness
Friday, April 24, 2015 11:21 AM EDT
The headlines say the durable goods new orders improved reversing the weak data seen since November 2014. The entire gain this month is attributable to civilian aircraft - and the rest of the data is soft.
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Rail Week Ending 18 April 2015: Reported Improvement In Rail Data?
Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:36 PM EDT
Week 15 of 2015 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) improved according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data.
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Kansas City Fed: Manufacturing Continues To Contract In March 2015
Thursday, April 23, 2015 1:01 PM EDT
Of the four regional manufacturing surveys released to date for April, one shows weak manufacturing growth while two are in contraction.
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March 2015 Existing Home Sales Significantly Improved
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12:53 PM EDT
Unadjusted sales growth accelerated 8.9% month-over-month, up 13.5% year-over-year - sales growth rate trend is accelerating using the 3 month moving average.
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Leading Index Review: February 2015 Philly Fed Leading Index Growth Rate Statistically Unchanged
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11:04 AM EDT
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has released the leading indexes for the 50 states for February 2015.
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March 2015 CFNAI Super Index Continues To Show USA Economic Slowing
Monday, April 20, 2015 9:56 AM EDT
The economy was growing even slower last month based on the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) 3 month moving average - and continues to grow below the historical trend rate of growth but well above levels associated with recessions.
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Transient Effects, Inflation, And The Federal Reserve
Saturday, April 18, 2015 5:54 PM EDT
What is particularly damning is that inflation growth rate has been declining for several years when a major monetary goal was to raise inflation to their target inflation range of 2%.
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Residential Building Sector Soft In March 2015. This Sector Remains Weak
Thursday, April 16, 2015 9:57 AM EDT
Residential building data remains soft. The rolling averages are the best metric to view this series - and the rolling averages are decelerating. This data was below expectations.
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March 2015 Overall Producer Prices Continue In Deflation Year-Over-Year
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 12:53 PM EDT
The Producer Price Index inflation continued its year-over-year deflation. The intermediate processing continues to show a large deflation in the supply chain.
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Employment Reports Continue To Be Guesses
Saturday, April 11, 2015 6:22 PM EDT
Employment reports are truly guesses based on extrapolated survey information. Only the BLS Household Survey is not revised as the year progresses - but it still is an extrapolated number based on monthly interviews of 60,000 households.
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February 2015 Consumer Credit Rate Of Growth Essentially Unchanged
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:56 PM EDT
Ratio of total consumer loans outstanding to consumer spending remains near historic highs.
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2015 JOLTS Continues To Predict Elevated Jobs Growth Rate
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:11 PM EDT
The BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) can be used as a predictor of future jobs growth, and the predictive elements show that the year-over-year unadjusted private non-farm job opening growth rate declined marginally.
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March 2015 Chicago Purchasing Managers Barometer Remains In Contraction
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:26 AM EDT
The Chicago Business Barometer remains in contraction in March - although "improving" marginally. The authors of this index remain surprised.
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March 2015 Texas Manufacturing Survey Rate Of Growth Contracts
Monday, March 30, 2015 12:04 PM EDT
The market was expecting -12.0 to -8.0 (consensus -9.0) versus the actual of negative 5.2.
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