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It’s Not The Weather: Industrial Production Is Rolling Over, Yet The Fed Is Clueless About Its Own Index

Another day of “incoming data” and still more evidence that this isn’t your father’s business cycle. This time it comes from the Eccles Building itself, but don’t expect the Keynesian money printers domiciled there to recognize that the industrial production report they issued today constitutes yet another rebuke to their entire macro model.

The March index slipped badly (0.6%) and thereby predictably elicited a “do not be troubled” assurance from the talking heads. It was just aberrant weather again. Well, that’s actually right. March was so muchwarmer  than February that the utility component of the index plunged by 5.9%.

Continue reading at David Stockman’s Contra Corner