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Economic Cycle Research Institute says double-dip is inevitable

A new report by the Economic Cycle Research Institute, which correctly called the last three recessions, says that a double dip recession is now inevitable. ECRI says that the economy “is indeed tipping into a new recession” and that there’s “nothing that policy makers can do to head it off.” ECRI’s recession call isn’t based on just one or two leading indexes, but on dozens of specialized leading indexes, including the U.S.

Jul 31, 2020
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A new reportby the Economic Cycle Research Institute, which correctly called the last three recessions, says that a double dip recession is now inevitable.
ECRI says that the economy “is indeed tipping into a new recession” and that there’s “nothing that policy makers can do to head it off.”
ECRI’s recession call isn’t based on just one or two leading indexes, but on dozens of specialized leading indexes, including the U.S. Long Leading Index, which was the first to turn down – before the Arab Spring and Japanese earthquake – to be followed by downturns in the Weekly Leading Index and other shorter-leading indexes. In fact, the most reliable forward-looking indicators are now collectively behaving as they did on the cusp of full-blown recessions, not “soft landings.”
Last year, amid the double-dip hysteria, we definitively ruled out an imminent recession based on leading indexes that began to turn up before QE2 was announced. Today, the key is that cyclical weakness is spreading widely from economic indicator to indicator in a telltale recessionary fashion….
A new recession isn’t simply a statistical event. It’s a vicious cycle that, once started, must run its course. Under certain circumstances, a drop in sales, for instance, lowers production, which results in declining employment and income, which in turn weakens sales further, all the while spreading like wildfire from industry to industry, region to region, and indicator to indicator. That’s what a recession is all about.
The group says that periods of economic growth have become shorter since the 1970s due to a number of systemic factors.
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