Friday, July 27, 2012

It's The Economy Stupid:

GDP is 1.5%, 10 Year Treasury is 1.4%, and CPI is 1.7%.  So even though inflation is low (CPI), economically speaking we’re losing ground.  Real rates of return are negative (Treasury vs CPI), and economic growth adjusted for inflation is negative (GDP vs CPI).

 

Technically speaking, the economy is sucky.   

 

 

Economic Event

Period

Economic Survey

Actual Reported

Original Prior

Revised Prior

GDP QoQ (Annualized)

2Q A

1.4%

1.5%

1.9%

2.0%

Personal Consumption

2Q A

1.3%

1.5%

2.5%

2.4%

GDP Price Index

2Q A

1.5%

1.6%

2.0%

 

Core PCE QoQ

2Q A

1.8%

1.8%

2.3%

2.2%

 

 

 

 

John Broussard

Assistant State Treasurer

Chief Investment Officer

State of Louisiana

Department of the Treasury

 

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