Friday, April 7, 2017

Unemployment rate (conditional) forecast update

The new unemployment rate data is out, and it doesn't help distinguish between the two paths (one [gray] assumed a new recession is coming, one [red] doesn't, hence the "conditional"):


The previous update is here. There's also a head-to-head with the FRBSF which predicts a flat unemployment rate:


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