February 2012 Macro Pulse -- The Good, the Bad, and the Perplexing

At least as far as the U.S. economy was concerned, data release headlines during the past month were, by and large, reasonably positive. More pessimistic information often emerged upon closer inspection, however. And then there were some real head-scratchers. Examples of each include….

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The Macro Pulse blog is a commentary about recent economic developments affecting the forest products industry. That commentary provides context for our 24-month forecast, which is contained in the monthly Economic Outlook newsletter available through Forest2Market. The monthly Macro Pulse newsletter summarizes the previous 30 days of commentary available on this website.