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The U.S. Economic Growth: Steady but Still below Potential

2014· article· en· W887526145 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jamal Nahavandi

Bibliographic record

Venue˜The œjournal of business forecasting · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEconomic Growth and Productivity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAtlantaEconomicsInvestment (military)EconomyEconomic historyAgricultural economicsPolitical scienceGeographyMetropolitan area
DOInot available

Abstract

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PARTICIPANTS I Beacon Economics = Los Angeles, California; Conf. Board = Conference Board, New York, New York; Fannie Mae=Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.; IFIS= IFIS Global Insight, Eddystone, Pennsylvania; GSU - EFC = Georgia State University, Economic Forecasting Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Moody's Economy = Moody's Economy.com, Westchester, Pennsylvania; Mortgage = Mortgage Bankers Association, Washington, D.C.; NAM = National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.; Northern Tr = Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois; Perryman Gp = The Perryman Group, Waco, Texas; Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; SP UBS = UBS Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah; US Bank = U.S. Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota; US Chamber = U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.; Wells Fargo = Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, California.The U.S. economy is continuing its steady albeit snailpaced growth. Consensus expects this trend to continue well into 2015 with GDP growing at the rate of 2.23 percent between 2014-4Q and 2015-3Q. Gradual firming of consumer confidence and spending combined with business investment and expected growth in construction due to the demographic tailwind will continue to propel its growth. However, the growth appears to be below its potential, and there is room for improvement. A study by the Brookings Institution indicates that entrepreneurship, the engine of growth, has declined in the U.S. to at least a three-decade low in all sectors of the economy. High concentration of patents ownership in the hands of a few firms in the Silicon Valley is not helping either.CONSUMERSMark Zandi of Moody's believes that high-quality job growth combined with high stock values and a rebound in home prices should have boosted consumer spending more than what we are experiencing. Consensus data indicate that consumers remain skittish and are holding back. Data further show that household savings are at historically high levels. Households are expected to spend 91 cents out of a dollar on goods and services well into the third quarter of 2015.This is in contrast to the pre-2008 crisis when consumer spending exceeded disposable income due to easy credit. The high level of savings may be partially because of the lack of new and innovative products entering the market. The most exciting innovative products in recent years have been the hyped-up new versions of smart phones and tablets in an already saturated market.Growth in Disposable Personal Income is more than oneand-one-half times the growth in GDP for the consensus period 2014-4Q thru 2015-3Q. This is in part due to higher income from capital versus wage income as recently reported by Thomas Piketty in his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Consensus data show that the expected Personal Consumption Expenditure is a solid 75 percent of the GDP, with growth rate slightly higher than one-and-one-half times the growth rate in GDP. This is good news because robust consumer spending is critical to economic growth. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.293
Threshold uncertainty score0.640

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.193
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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