Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
For the last ten recessions, notice a similar V-shaped pattern for the year-to-year growth in industrial production rebounding at the end of each recession, and signalling the start of the next economic expansion.
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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A partial recovery, after a severe downturn, is not a V-shaped recovery. The data in the chart reflect more of an L-shaped than V-shaped recovery so far.
The long-term trend line (10-year moving average) of potential and actual output reflects the L-shaped recovery (which can be found in Monetary Trends by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis). It's even worse when import destruction is included.
U.S. auto sales averaged 16 million units over a five year period in the 2000s, fell below 10 million units, and are expected to recover to about 12 million units in 2010.
March 2009
"US auto sales, which are already at a 34-year low, will likely drop another 30-40 percent and may never recover to previous levels, finds a new report from CIBC World Markets. The report projects that American consumers will only buy about 8-9 million vehicles a year over the next five years, roughly half of what we've seen in the last half-decade. "Detroit's biggest problem isn't that it's producing the wrong type of vehicles but rather, that it's producing too many vehicles-far too many," says Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets. "Just as two million housing starts proved to be a bubble, so was the average 16 million unit auto sales of the last five years."
Also, housing starts are way below the 2 million per year level, while capacity utilization is low:
U.S. housing starts hit 6-month high, output rises
Feb 17, 2010
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - U.S. housing starts rose to a six-month high in January and industrial output increased solidly, pointing to an economic recovery that was taking a firm hold and respectable first-quarter growth.
Groundbreaking activity for new homes increased 2.8 percent to an annual rate of 591,000 units, reversing the prior month's weather-induced drop, a report from the Commerce Department showed on Wednesday. That was above market expectations for a 580,000-unit pace.
The housing starts report, however, hinted at fundamental improvement. Over the past 12 months, housing starts have surged 21.1 percent, the largest increase since April 2004.
Capacity utilization, a measure of slack in the economy, rose to 72.6 percent from 71.9 percent a month earlier, but was still 8 percentage points below the average from 1972 to 2009, suggesting little inflationary pressure.
Housing starts peaked at a 2.273 million unit annual pace in January 2006 and bottomed at 479,000 units last April. They have been bouncing around between 500,000 and 600,000 units.
Permits for new building projects fell 4.9 percent to 621,000 units last month after rising to a 14-month high of 653,000 in December, the Commerce Department said.
Yes industrial production is picking up. You can't keep machines running forever without parts or replacements. But don't expect big increases in employment with higher taxes looming ahead.
how about that V shaped jump in PPI and the much higher than expected new claims numbers?
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 31,000 to 473,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That compared to market expectations for 430,000.
Another report from the department showed prices paid at the farm and factory gate rose a faster than expected 1.4 percent from December after a 0.4 percent gain in December, as higher gasoline prices and unusually cold temperatures helped boost energy costs
even "core" PPI was up .3 which annualized inot the mid 4% range, though i suspect that taking food and energy out of production costs is a bit questionable.
If the definition of recession involves a steep drop, then doesn't a SLOWING of the downward movement -- in this year-to-year comparison -- manifest as a V-shaped pattern?
When the graph line moves up to zero, it just means the drop has ended.
To recover from a 30% drop, the graph would need to show a V-shaped STOP IN THE DROP, followed by a 43% gain, right?
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