Posted on 01/30/2012 6:53:12 AM PST by blam
HUSSMAN: This Pace Of GDP Growth Is 'Always' Associated With Recession
Joe Weisenthal
January 30, 2012
Fund manager John Hussman continues to hammer away at the economy and the market.
His latest note is called Goat Rodeo, which is defined as: "Appalachian slang for a chaotic, high-risk, or unmanageable scenario requiring countless things to go right in order to walk away unharmed."
After discussing the leading indicators, he writes:
...while we typically discourage drawing inferences from any single indicator, it's at least worth noting that with the release of Q4 GDP figures, the year-over-year growth rate of real U.S. GDP remains below 1.6% (denoted by the red line below). A decline in GDP growth to this level has always been associated with recession, usually coincident with that decline, though with a two-quarter lag in two instances (1956 and 2007), and with one post-recession dip in growth during the first quarter of 2003. As it happens, the GDP growth rate dropped below 1.6% in the third quarter of 2011.
Given the strong and rather obvious relationship between the most recent year-over-year rate of GDP growth and the prospect of oncoming recession, it's difficult to understand why Wall Street so completely rejects the likelihood of an economic downturn. Then again, that's exactly why we're expecting a Goat Rodeo.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Hussman bump.
Read this last night (he posts on Sunday nights). This should be read with Bloomberg’s report today that Europe wants $500 billions more in bailouts. How’s Geithner’s $30 billion guarantee to Greece going?
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