Of course recessions are always unexpected, aren’t they?
For those of you who believe American manufacturing is currently experiencing a healthy recovery and the Federal Reserve could raise their interest rates at any point soon - please take a look at this chart: Usually profits always lead the business cycle, new orders for capital goods follow quickly and finally net investments run in the same direction. And if private net investments (as a share of income) turn negative (over a twelve months period) for a longer time, you can be quite sure that a recession begins within months. So it does not look good, neither for the US, Europe nor the global economy. But who or what can save the US recovery now?: A stock market boom, China's current account surpluses, massive new spending in construction or the Federal Reserve again? It is hard to see how this can happen now. In a previous post I described (in German) all...
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