Perhaps its a remnant from 2014 and 2015, but the first thing we noticed when skimming through the April Fed Beige Book is that "weather" continues to play an impact on the US economy: after declining from 26 mentions of the word "weather" in the January beige book, down to 17 in March, April saw a fractional pick up, with 18 cases of the word appearing in the just released Fed report.
At the start of the month we focused on what is set to soon be the new buzzword in economic circles: staglation. Specifically, we referred to the the explicit and inverse correlation between corporate profits and employee wages.
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Submitted by Mike "Mish" Shedlock
Fed vs. Fed: New York Fed To Issue Its Own GDP Nowcast; Atlanta Fed Too Pessimistic?
It’s Fed vs. Fed in the Nowcasting business. The New York Fed has decided to issue a FRBNY Nowcast, clearly in competition with the Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast.
The Atlanta Fed has the name GDPNow trademarked.
The Atlanta Fed provides its updates following major economic reports. In contrast, the New York Fed will deliver its version every Friday starting April 15.
Written by David Haggith - The Great Recession Blog
Just about every major banker and finance minister in the world is meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, following two rushed, secretive meetings of the Federal Reserve and another instantaneous and rare meeting between the Fed Chair and the president of the United States. These and other emergency bank meetings around the world cause one to wonder what is going down. Let’s start with a bullet list of the week’s big-bank events: