Conference Board Leading Economic Index

Conference Board ^ | 10/20/11 | Ken Goldstein

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The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. increased 0.2 percent in September...

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The leading indicators point to continued slow growth or "slowth," through the end of 2001, along with a significant chance of recession.

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From the site:

The ten components of The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for the U.S. include:

Average weekly hours, manufacturing

Average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance

Manufacturers’ new orders, consumer goods and materials

Index of supplier deliveries – vendor performance

Manufacturers' new orders, nondefense capital goods

Building permits, new private housing units

Stock prices, 500 common stocks

Money supply, M2

Interest rate spread, 10-year Treasury bonds less federal funds

Index of consumer expectations

What aren't included are the effects of an impending debt bomb (obamacare), a marxist regime, and potentially violent, mass social unrest factors.

One could get the hunch the omens are dark.

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“slow growth or “slowth,” through the end of 2001”

Man, that is really sloooow. So slow we’re going backwards. :-)