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Macro Pulse highlights recent activity and events expected to affect the U.S. economy over the next 24 months. While the review is of the entire U.S. economy its particular focus is on developments affecting the Forest Products industry. Everyone with a stake in any level of the sector can benefit from
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

July 2012 Macro Pulse -- Economic Drought Conditions

As of July 5, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed that over half of the land area of the continential United States was suffering from moderate or worse drought conditions. National news programs are replete with images of stunted crops and out-of-control wildfires, and accompanied by stories of how communities are being affected. The nation’s economy appears to be in a drought as well. For example:


Click here to read the entire July 2012 Macro Pulse recap.

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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