Contractionary Conditions

There are six regional Federal Reserve Bank monthly surveys of economic conditions. They are put out by the Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, New York, Philadelphia, and Richmond banks. At present all six are in contractionary territory. Since 1969, and before this most recent occurrence, this has happened on 10 occasions, and a recession has followed eight times, a pretty good ratio. I strongly suspect nine for eleven is next.

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