Saturday, January 17, 2009

US industrial production falls 8 percent in December

Industrial production data provides a useful early warning indicator of problems in the real sector. It is a rough measure of physical production, and therefore has a strong bias towards tracking activity in mining, manufacturing and energy sectors.

The latest industrial production data for the US is horrifying. In December, the number is down 8 percent compared to the same month a year earlier. Taken together with the December US employment number, which was down half a million jobs, it is now clear that the US economy is in the midst of a terrible output decline.

The fourth quarter US GDP number is going to be really ugly.

2 comments:

  1. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, We Are Opting Out of Credit.

    All of Our Economic Problems Find They Root in the Existence of Credit.

    Out of the $5,000,000,000,000 given out to the banks, that is $1,000 for every inhabitant of this planet, what is it exactly that WE, The People, got?

    A Credit Free, Free Market Economy Is Possible.

    Both Dynamic on the Short Run & Stable on the Long Run.

    I Propose, Hence, to Lead for You an Exit Out of Credit:

    Let me outline for you my proposed strategy:


    Preserve Your Belongings.

    The Property Title: Opt Out of Credit.

    The Credit Free Money: The Dinar-Shekel AKA The DaSh, Symbol: - .

    Asset Transfer: The Right Grant Operation.

    A Specific Application of Employment Interest and Money.
    [A Tract Intended For my Fellows Economists].


    If Risk Free Interest Rates Are at 0.00% Doesn't That Mean That Credit is Worthless?

    Since credit based currencies are managed by setting interest rates, on which all control has been lost, are they managed anymore?

    We Need, Hence, Cancel All Interest Bearing Debt and Abolish Interest Bearing Credit.

    In This Age of Turbulence The People Wants an Exit Out of Credit: An Adventure in a New World Economic Order.

    The other option would be to wait till most of the productive assets of the economy get physically destroyed either by war or by rust.

    It will be either awfully deadly or dramatically long.

    A price none of us can afford to pay.

    “The current crisis can be overcome only by developing a sense of common purpose. The alternative to a new international order is chaos.”

    - Henry A. Kissinger


    Let me provide you with a link to my press release for my open letter to you:

    Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Quantitative [Ooops! I Meant Credit] Easing Can't Work!


    I am, Mr Chairman, Yours Sincerely,

    Shalom P. Hamou AKA 'MC Shalom'
    Chief Economist - Master Conductor
    1 7 7 6 - Annuit Cœptis
    Tel: +972 54 441-7640

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