Economic Indicator
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Birth Death Adjustment
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BLS Job Models
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Case Shiller Housing Price Index
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Chemical Activity Barometer
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Consumer Confidence Reports
- Consumer Spending Indicators
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Excessive Government Debt
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Federal Budget Deficit
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Federal Debt as Percentage of GDP
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Home Sales Indicators
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Household Net Worth to GDP
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NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
- Personal Consumption Expenditure
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Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income
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True Money Supply
- Unemployment Metrics
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Wages
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Yield Spreads
- Remember that many economic indicators can be backward looking and misleading
- Positive backward looking indicators carry no weight with regards to future economic activity
Fuel consumption and economic activity go together like Starsky and Hutch.