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Economic Assessment
Wade Rousse
Economic Outreach Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
IASETChicago, ILDecember 12, 2008
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The economy entered a recession in the first quarter of 2008
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Real gross domestic productpercent
Quarterly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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Home price declines are larger outside the Midwest
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10
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Midwest
Median sales price - existing single family home3-month smoothed - percent change from a year earlier
United States
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Housing starts have fallen sharply
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Housing startsthousands - 3-month smoothed
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The supply of new single family homes is extremely high
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Months supply of new single family homesmonths
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Home price changes over the past year has been mixed
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Foreclosure filings are quite high in California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona
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Mortgage rates remain low
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Mortgage rate - 30-year fixedpercent
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Housing affordability has improved quite a bit
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Composite housing affordability indexindex=100 when median family income qualifies for an 80% mortgage
on a median priced existing single family home
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Lending standards for mortgage loanshave tightened considerably
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Senior Loan Officer Opinion Surveynet percentage of domestic respondents tightening mortgage loan standards
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Consumer attitudes for buying a home remain very low
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Consumer attitudes - plan to buy a home in next six monthspercent of respondents
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Residential investment growth fell off sharply,subtracting a full percentage point
off of GDP growth over the past year
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Real residential investmentpercent
Quarterly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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Residential investment as a share of GDPis approaching previous lows
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Residential investment as a share of GDPpercent
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Inflation has reversed its upward trajectory
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Personal consumption expenditure - chain price indexpercent change from a year earlier
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In large part due to the movement of oil prices
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West Texas Intermediate oil pricedollars per barrel
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Adjusted for inflation - current oil prices are well below early 1980s prices
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Real West Texas Intermediate oil pricedollars per barrel. 2007 dollars
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Expenditures on energy increased over the past few years,and they currently are at the historical average
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Energy goods and services expenditures as a share oftotal consumptionpercent
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Energy goods and services expenditures as a share oftotal consumptionpercent
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1960-2008
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Removing the volatile food and energy components from the PCE,
“core” inflation has been averaging just above two percent
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Personal consumption expenditure - less food and energy -chain price indexpercent change from a year earlier
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Employment decreased by 1,870,000 jobs over the past year
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Total employmentpercent
Monthly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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The unemployment rate has been rising
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Unemployment ratepercent
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Productivity growth remains solid
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Nonfarm business productivitypercent
Quarterly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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Real incomes are unchanged with a year earlier
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1990 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08
Real disposable personal incomepercent
Quarterly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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The stock market losses are significant
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S&P 500 stock indexpercent change from a year earlier
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Consumer spending fell sharply in the third quarter
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Real personal consumption expenditurespercent
Quarterly change (saar) Percent change from a year earlier
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Third quarter GDP edged lower, weighed downby a decline in consumption and residential investment
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GDP Consumption Business Fixed
Investment
Residential Investment
Inventories Government Net Exports
Contributions to real GDP growth in Q3:2008percentage points (annual rate)
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Corporate profits have been declining
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Nonfinancial corporate profitspercent
Quarterly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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Given the large trade deficit, the dollar has beenunder pressure since the beginning of 2002,
losing 14.1% of its value over this period
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billions of chained real dollars
Real net exports and change in real value of the dollar
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percent change from a year earlier
dollar (right axis)
net exports (left axis)
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Real exports and importspercent change from year ago
Exports
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Real exports and importspercent change from year ago
Exports
Imports
Import growth has been belowexport growth since early 2005
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Net exports contributed quite a bit to GDP growth last year
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Net exports contribution to percent change in real GDPpercent
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Manufacturing output has fallen quite sharply
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Industrial output - manufacturingpercent
Monthly change (saar)
Percent change from a year earlier
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New orders for capital goods has begun to slipand shipments have been edging lower
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Manufacturers' new orders
Nondefense capital goods, excluding aircraft and parts
Manufacturers' shipments
billions of dollars
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Corporate High Yield rates increased beginning in June 2007
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Corporate Aaa and Corporate High Yield ratespercent
2007 2008
High Yield
Corporate Aaa
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Credit spreads between Corporate High Yield securitiesand Corporate Aaa securities rose by over 1,400 basis points
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Credit spreads between Corporate High Yield and Corporate Aaapercent
2007 2008
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The “flight to quality” drove down Treasury yields
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Corporate Aaa and 10-year Treasury ratespercent
2007 2008
10-year Treasury
Corporate Aaa
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Causing credit spreads between themto increase by more than 200 basis points
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Credit spreads between Corporate Aaa and 10-year Treasurypercent
2007 2008
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The three-month average of theChicago Fed National Activity Index
has weakened substantially over the past couple of months
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Monthly
Chicago Fed National Activity Index
Three month average
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Concerned that the tightening of credit conditionshas the potential to slow economic growth,
the Fed lowered the Fed Funds rate by 425 basis points
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Fed Funds ratepercent
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Real GDP
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percent change, annual rate
Real GDP growth is expected to:decline quite considerably in the current quarter;
fall by nearly half as much in the first quarter of next year; remain unchanged in the second quarter;
and then increase in the second half of 2009
Forecasts are from the Twenty-second Annual Economic Outlook Symposium
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Unemployment rate
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percent
With economic growth being well below trend,the unemployment rate is projectedto continue rising throughout 2009,
reaching 7.8% in the final quarter of next year
Forecasts are from the Twenty-second Annual Economic Outlook Symposium
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•The outlook is for the U.S. economy to struggle through
most of next year with an elevated risk of recession
Summary
•Employment is expected to remain weak this year and next,
leading to a continued rise in the unemployment rate
•Slackness in the economy will lead to a lower inflation
rate over the coming year
•The volatile credit markets and the weak housing market
are the biggest risk on the horizon for the U.S. economy
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