Forbes: “Economy Shrank 0.9% Last Quarter As Experts Warn ‘Worse To Come’”
By admin_45 in IN THE NEWS
Excerpt from Forbes quoting DataTrek:
.... "Though economist projections continued to call for a return to growth in the second quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow model late last month began signaling the start of a technical recession, pushing its GDP forecast into negative territory after economic data showed consumer spending dropped in May. “The model’s long-run track record is excellent,” say DataTrek analysts Nicholas Colas and Jessica Rabe, pointing out its average error has been just 0.3 points since the Atlanta Fed started running it in 2011. Ahead of the GDP print, the model projected the economy shrank 1.2% last quarter"....
Full article here on Forbes.
