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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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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

August 2013 Macro Pulse -- Hall of Mirrors

Across the country, state and county fairs are popular attractions at this time of year. A fair worthy of the name will usually include a fun house, complete with a hall of mirrors, among the carny barkers and stands hawking deep-fried candy bars. These mirrors are all distorted in some way, able to morph even the comeliest fairgoer into a misshapen caricature. In some respects, it seems many recent data reports were released through a hall of mirrors – and the data did not look that great to begin with. For example:
Click here to read the entire July 2013 Macro Pulse recap.

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