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The following reports on economic indicators are reported by United States government agencies: Business activity Wholesale Inventories; Industrial Production (Federal Reserve) Capacity Utilization; Regional Manufacturing Surveys (purchasing managers' organizations and Federal Reserve banks) Philadelphia Fed Index (Federal Reserve Bank of ...
A 2014 paper by Arai in the International Journal of Forecasting finds: "Using this [Patton and Timmerman (2012) forecast adjustment] method in a real-time out-of-sample forecasting exercise, I find that it provides modest improvements in the accuracies of the forecasts for the GDP deflator and CPI, but not for other variables. The improvements ...
SPF has been used in academic research on forecast accuracy and forecast bias. [4] [7] [8] A 1997 analysis of density forecasts of inflation made in the SPF finds: "The probability of a large negative inflation shock is generally overestimated, and in more recent years the probability of a large shock of either sign is overestimated.
The federal government spent approximately $600 billion during 2016 on the Cabinet Departments and Agencies, excluding the Department of Defense, up $15 billion or 3% versus 2015. This represented 16% of budgeted expenditures or about 3.3% of GDP. Spending is below the recent dollar peak of $658 billion in 2010. [51]
(The Center Square) – A looming partial shutdown of the federal government could potentially furlough thousands of workers and disrupt certain services ahead of the busy holiday season ...
How much will the Department of Government Efficiency change the country's federal government? Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are revealing new details about how it will work and how long it will take.
The economic data published on FRED are widely reported in the media and play a key role in financial markets. In a 2012 Business Insider article titled "The Most Amazing Economics Website in the World", Joe Weisenthal quoted Paul Krugman as saying: "I think just about everyone doing short-order research — trying to make sense of economic issues in more or less real time — has become a ...
Data-mining software company Palantir Technologies may be in the right place at the right time as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency looks to disrupt federal hiring and spending ...