Posted on 06/01/2018 6:59:41 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The U.S. economy is expanding at a 4.8 percent annualized rate in the second quarter, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow forecast model showed on Friday.
The forecast has been climbing higher following the release of a series of good economic data. On May 25, the measure foresaw four percent GDP growth. This rose to 4.7 percent Thursday and ticked even higher on Friday following the better than expected jobs report for May.
The Atlanta Fed forecasts a big boost in private sector fixed investment, which includes capital investment in machinery, land, buildings, vehicles, and technology. Earlier, the Atlanta Fed saw this growing at 4.6 percent. But following the release Friday of a construction spending report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Manufacturing ISM Report On Business from the Institute for Supply Management, this was upgraded to 5.4 percent growth.
Consumer spending is expected to grow at a 4.6 percent rate, up from 3.4 percent prior to the Friday data releases.
The New York Fed’s Nowcast also rose Friday, to 3.5 percent from 3.0 percent a week ago.
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Holy moly, have not seen that in the past 8 years of the previous admin.
Yes, said misery and failure were the “new norm”, parroted by his lackeys in the media.
When was it....1984....when it’d been at least that high? Imagine 2019 going the same way?
Gosh - and under Obama’s “new norm” we were stuck at 2% or so as a good thing.....
The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tool forecasts GDP growth at a specific point in time based on economic conditions on that date. The forecast changes weekly, sometimes daily, as new information comes in. The forecast could be lower on Friday or it could be higher.
No, they did and then lowered significantly a couple weeks later.
Yep. The Reagan years.
Elections have consequences.
Boy, it looks like the groundwork that obama laid out is REALLY kicking in! /major sarc
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