Recent Posts Tagged With 'capacity'

• Can Capacity Destruction be Good for GDP?

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 11:41 in gdp, capacity

  Notice that I state GDP and not "the economy" in the headline (the broken window theory explains why destruction is not good for the economy, BUT it doesn't mean that it won't lead to a better GDP print down the road). As Richard Posner details, ther...

• Capacity Destruction?

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 09:10 in capacity

  Upon further review of capacity utilization...The chart below shows the year over year change in industrial production, capacity utilization, and the difference between the two. In a world in which productivity is booming (it is), that means people a...

• Capacity Utilization and Production Rebounding

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 22:34 in industrial production, capacity

  Reuters reports: U.S. industrial output rose firmly in November as the manufacturing sector extended a recovery that economists hope will help turn around the ailing labor market.Production climbed 0.8 percent, the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday, we...

• Auto Prices and CFC; CPI and Capacity

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 19:38 in capacity, cpi

  Marketwatch details the latest CPI release:The consumer price index increased a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in October as energy prices increased for the fifth time in six months to offset another rare decline in rents, the Labor Department said.The cor...

• Output Gap and Inflation

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 07:16 in capacity

  Marketwatch details:Output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose 0.7% in September after an upwardly revised 1.2% gain in August and a 0.9% increase in July, the Fed said. The 0.7% increase in output in September was stronger than the 0...

• Production and Capacity Utilization Up

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 08:26 in capacity

  Marketwatch reports: The output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose 0.8% in August. Output was also much stronger in July than first estimated, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday. The August increase was just a bit better than expecte...

• Capacity Utilization vs. Unemployment

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 10:18 in employment, capacity

  August's capacity utilization figure to be released tomorrow is forecast at an improved 69.6% from 68.5%. The importance of that figure is it tends to be a leading indicator of inflation. Per the NY Fed:The level of capacity utilization in the indust...