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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

May 2012 Macro Pulse -- Siding or Main Line?

While real U.S. GDP growth slowed in 1Q2012 -- to 2.2 percent real, from 3.0 percent in 4Q2011 -- different components appear to be diverging onto what Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams described as “two tracks” -- one track exhibiting strength and the other weakness. Time will tell whether (in railroad parlance) the economy is being shunted off onto a siding or continues on the main line. What follows are examples of both the “slow” and “fast” tracks….

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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.

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