Sunday, November 30, 2014

Valuations of Risk Financial Assets, Mediocre Cyclical United States Economic Growth with GDP Two Trillion Dollars below Trend, Stagnating Real Disposable Income, Financial Repression, United States Housing Collapse, World Cyclical Slow Growth and Global Recession Risk: Part VII

 

Valuations of Risk Financial Assets, Mediocre Cyclical United States Economic Growth with GDP Two Trillion Dollars below Trend, Stagnating Real Disposable Income, Financial Repression, United States Housing Collapse, World Cyclical Slow Growth and Global Recession Risk

Carlos M. Pelaez

© Carlos M. Pelaez, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

I Mediocre Cyclical United States Economic Growth with GDP Two Trillion Dollars Below Trend

IA Mediocre Cyclical United States Economic Growth

IA1 Contracting Real Private Fixed Investment

IA2 Swelling Undistributed Corporate Profits

IB Stagnating Real Disposable Income and Consumption Expenditures

IB1 Stagnating Real Disposable Income and Consumption Expenditures

IB2 Financial Repression

II United States Housing Collapse

III World Financial Turbulence

IIIA Financial Risks

IIIE Appendix Euro Zone Survival Risk

IIIF Appendix on Sovereign Bond Valuation

IV Global Inflation

V World Economic Slowdown

VA United States

VB Japan

VC China

VD Euro Area

VE Germany

VF France

VG Italy

VH United Kingdom

VI Valuation of Risk Financial Assets

VII Economic Indicators

VIII Interest Rates

IX Conclusion

References

Appendixes

Appendix I The Great Inflation

IIIB Appendix on Safe Haven Currencies

IIIC Appendix on Fiscal Compact

IIID Appendix on European Central Bank Large Scale Lender of Last Resort

IIIG Appendix on Deficit Financing of Growth and the Debt Crisis

IIIGA Monetary Policy with Deficit Financing of Economic Growth

IIIGB Adjustment during the Debt Crisis of the 1980s

IX Conclusion. Lucas (2011May) estimates US economic growth in the long-term at 3 percent per year and about 2 percent per year in per capita terms. There are displacements from this trend caused by events such as wars and recessions but the economy grows much faster during the expansion, compensating for the contraction and maintaining trend growth over the entire cycle. Historical US GDP data exhibit remarkable growth: Lucas (2011May) estimates an increase of US real income per person by a factor of 12 in the period from 1870 to 2010. The explanation by Lucas (2011May) of this remarkable growth experience is that government provided stability and education while elements of “free-market capitalism” were an important driver of long-term growth and prosperity. Lucas sharpens this analysis by comparison with the long-term growth experience of G7 countries (US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan) and Spain from 1870 to 2010. Countries benefitted from “common civilization” and “technology” to “catch up” with the early growth leaders of the US and UK, eventually growing at a faster rate. Significant part of this catch up occurred after World War II. Lucas (2011May) finds that the catch up stalled in the 1970s. The analysis of Lucas (2011May) is that the 20-40 percent gap that developed originated in differences in relative taxation and regulation that discouraged savings and work incentives in comparison with the US. A larger welfare and regulatory state, according to Lucas (2011May), could be the cause of the 20-40 percent gap. Cobet and Wilson (2002) provide estimates of output per hour and unit labor costs in national currency and US dollars for the US, Japan and Germany from 1950 to 2000 (see Pelaez and Pelaez, The Global Recession Risk (2007), 137-44). The average yearly rate of productivity change from 1950 to 2000 was 2.9 percent in the US, 6.3 percent for Japan and 4.7 percent for Germany while unit labor costs in USD increased at 2.6 percent in the US, 4.7 percent in Japan and 4.3 percent in Germany. From 1995 to 2000, output per hour increased at the average yearly rate of 4.6 percent in the US, 3.9 percent in Japan and 2.6 percent in Germany while unit labor costs in USD fell at minus 0.7 percent in the US, 4.3 percent in Japan and 7.5 percent in Germany. There was increase in productivity growth in Japan and France within the G7 in the second half of the 1990s but significantly lower than the acceleration of 1.3 percentage points per year in the US. The key indicator of growth of real income per capita, which is what a person earns after inflation, measures long-term economic growth and prosperity. A refined concept would include real disposable income per capita, which is what a person earns after inflation and taxes.

Table IB-1 provides the data required for broader comparison of long-term and cyclical performance of the United States economy. Revisions and enhancements of United States GDP and personal income accounts by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (http://bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm) provide important information on long-term growth and cyclical behavior. First, Long-term performance. Using annual data, US GDP grew at the average rate of 3.3 percent per year from 1929 to 2013 and at 3.2 percent per year from 1947 to 2013. Real disposable income grew at the average yearly rate of 3.2 percent from 1929 to 2013 and at 3.7 percent from 1947 to 1999. Real disposable income per capita grew at the average yearly rate of 2.0 percent from 1929 to 2013 and at 2.3 percent from 1947 to 1999. US economic growth was much faster during expansions, compensating contractions in maintaining trend growth for whole cycles. Using annual data, US real disposable income grew at the average yearly rate of 3.5 percent from 1980 to 1989 and real disposable income per capita at 2.6 percent. The US economy has lost its dynamism in the current cycle: real disposable income grew at the yearly average rate of 1.4 percent from 2006 to 2013 and real disposable income per capita at 0.5 percent. Real disposable income grew at the average rate of 1.2 percent from 2007 to 2013 and real disposable income per capita at 0.4 percent. Table IB-1 illustrates the contradiction of long-term growth with the proposition of secular stagnation (Hansen 1938, 1938, 1941 with early critique by Simons (1942). Secular stagnation would occur over long periods. Table IB-1 also provides the corresponding rates of population growth that is only marginally lower at 0.8 to 0.9 percent recently from 1.1 percent over the long-term. GDP growth fell abruptly from 2.6 percent on average from 2000 to 2006 to 1.0 percent from 2006 to 2013 and 0.9 percent from 2007 to 2013 and real disposable income growth fell from 2.9 percent on average from 2000 to 2006 to 1.4 percent from 2006 to 2013. The decline of real per capita disposable income is even sharper from average 2.0 percent from 2000 to 2006 to 0.5 percent from 2006 to 2013 and 0.4 percent from 2007 to 2013 while population growth was 0.8 percent on average. Lazear and Spletzer (2012JHJul122) provide theory and measurements showing that cyclic factors explain currently depressed labor markets. This is also the case of the overall economy. Second, first four quarters of expansion. Growth in the first four quarters of expansion is critical in recovering loss of output and employment occurring during the contraction. In the first four quarters of expansion from IQ1983 to IVQ1983: GDP increased 7.8 percent, real disposable personal income 5.3 percent and real disposable income per capita 4.4 percent. In the first four quarters of expansion from IIIQ2009 to IIQ2010: GDP increased 2.7 percent, real disposable personal income 0.2 percent and real disposable income per capita decreased 0.7 percent. Third, first 20 quarters of expansion. In the expansion from IQ1983 to IVQ1987: GDP grew 27.7 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 5.0 percent; real disposable income grew 22.1 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 4.1 percent; and real disposable income per capita grew 16.7 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 3.1 percent. In the expansion from IIIQ2009 to IIQ2014: GDP grew 11.5 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 2.2 percent; real disposable income grew 8.3 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 1.6 percent; and real disposable personal income per capita grew 4.3 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 0.9 percent. Fourth, entire quarterly cycle. In the entire cycle combining contraction and expansion from IQ1980 to IVQ1987: GDP grew 27.5 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 3.0 percent; real disposable personal income 29.1 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 3.1 percent; and real disposable personal income per capita 19.8 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 2.2 percent. In the entire cycle combining contraction and expansion from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014: GDP grew 6.8 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 1.0 percent; real disposable personal income 10.0 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 1.4 percent; and real disposable personal income per capita 4.7 percent at the annual equivalent rate of 0.7 percent. The United States grew during its history at high rates of per capita income that made its economy the largest in the world. That dynamism is disappearing. Bordo (2012 Sep27) and Bordo and Haubrich (2012DR) provide strong evidence that recoveries have been faster after deeper recessions and recessions with financial crises, casting serious doubts on the conventional explanation of weak growth during the current expansion allegedly because of the depth of the contraction of 4.3 percent from IVQ2007 to IIQ2009 and the financial crisis. The proposition of secular stagnation should explain a long-term process of decay and not the actual abrupt collapse of the economy and labor markets currently.

Table IB-1, US, GDP, Real Disposable Personal Income, Real Disposable Income per Capita and Population in 1983-85 and 2007-2013, %

Long-term Average ∆% per Year

GDP

Population

 

1929-2013

3.3

1.1

 

1947-2013

3.2

1.2

 

1947-1999

3.6

1.3

 

2000-2013

1.7

0.9

 

2000-2006

2.6

0.9

 

2006-2013

1.0

0.8

 

2007-2013

0.9

0.8

 

Long-term

Average ∆% per Year

Real Disposable Income

Real Disposable Income per Capita

Population

1929-2013

3.2

2.0

1.1

1947-1999

3.7

2.3

1.3

2000-2013

2.1

1.2

0.9

2000-2006

2.9

2.0

0.9

2006-2013

1.4

0.5

0.8

2007-2013

1.2

0.4

0.8

Whole Cycles

Average ∆% per Year

     

1980-1989

3.5

2.6

0.9

2006-2013

1.4

0.5

0.8

2007-2013

1.2

0.4

0.8

Comparison of Cycles

# Quarters

∆%

∆% Annual Equivalent

GDP

     

I83 to IV83

IQ83 to IQ87

IQ83 to IIQ87

I83 to III87

IQ83 to IV87

4

17

18

19

20

   

I83 to IV83

I83 to IQ87

I83 to II87

I83 to III87

I83 to IV87

4

17

18

19

20

7.8

23.1

24.5

25.6

27.7

7.8

5.0

5.0

4.9

5.0

RDPI

     

I83 to IV83

I83 to I87

I83 to III87

I83 to IV87

4

17

19

20

5.3

19.5

20.5

22.1

5.3

4.3

4.0

4.1

RDPI Per Capita

     

I83 to IV83

I83 to I87

I83 to III87

I83 to IV87

4

17

19

20

4.4

15.1

15.5

16.7

4.4

3.4

3.1

3.1

Whole Cycle IQ1980 to IVQ1987

     

GDP

33

27.5

3.0

RDPI

33

29.1

3.1

RDPI per Capita

33

19.8

2.2

Population

33

7.8

0.9

GDP

     

III09 to II10

III09 to II14

4

20

2.7

11.5

2.7

2.2

RDPI

     

III09 to II10

III09 to II14

4

20

0.2

8.3

0.2

1.6

RDPI per Capita

     

III09 to II10

III09 to II14

4

20

-0.7

4.3

-0.7

0.9

Population

     

III09 to II010

III09 to II14

4

20

0.8

3.7

0.8

0.7

IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

27

   

GDP

27

6.8

1.0

RDPI

27

10.0

1.4

RDPI per Capita

27

4.7

0.7

Population

27

5.1

0.7

RDPI: Real Disposable Personal Income

Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm

There are seven basic facts illustrating the current economic disaster of the United States:

  • GDP maintained trend growth in the entire business cycle from IQ1980 to IIIQ1987, including contractions and expansions. GDP is well below trend in the entire business cycle from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014, including contractions and expansions
  • Per capita real disposable income exceeded trend growth in the 1980s but is substantially below trend in IIQ2014
  • Level of employed persons increased in the 1980s but declined into IIQ2014
  • Level of full-time employed persons increased in the 1980s but declined into IIQ2014
  • Level unemployed, unemployment rate and employed part-time for economic reasons fell in the recovery from the recessions in the 1980s but not substantially in the recovery since IIIQ2009
  • Wealth of households and nonprofit organizations soared in the 1980s but stagnated in real terms into IQ2014
  • Gross private domestic investment increased sharply from IQ1980 to IVQ1987 but gross private domestic investment stagnated and private fixed investment fell from IVQ2007 into IIQ2014

There is a critical issue of the United States economy will be able in the future to attain again the level of activity and prosperity of projected trend growth. Growth at trend during the entire business cycles built the largest economy in the world but there may be an adverse, permanent weakness in United States economic performance and prosperity. Table IB-2 provides data for analysis of these seven basic facts. The seven blocks of Table IB-2 are separated initially after individual discussion of each one followed by the full Table IB-2.

1. Trend Growth.

i. As shown in Table IB-2, actual GDP grew cumulatively 27.1 percent from IQ1980 to IVQ1987, which is relatively close to what trend growth would have been at 27.6 percent. Real GDP grew 27.5 percent from IVQ1979 to IVQ1987. Rapid growth at the average annual rate of 5.0 percent per quarter during the expansion from IQ1983 to IVQ1987 erased the loss of GDP of 4.6 percent during the contraction and maintained trend growth at 3.0 percent for GDP and 3.1 percent for real disposable personal income over the entire cycle.

ii. In contrast, cumulative growth from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 was 6.8 percent while trend growth would have been 22.1 percent. GDP in IIQ2014 at seasonally adjusted annual rate is $16,010.4 billion as estimated by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm) and would have been $18,305.0 billion, or $2,294.6 billion higher, had the economy grown at trend over the entire business cycle as it happened during the 1980s and throughout most of US history. There is about $2.3 trillion of foregone GDP that the economy would have created as it occurred during past cyclical expansions, which explains why employment net of population growth has not rebounded to even higher than before. There would not be recovery of full employment even with growth of 3 percent per year beginning immediately because the opportunity was lost to grow faster during the expansion from IIIQ2009 to IVQ2013 after the recession from IVQ2007 to IIQ2009. The United States has acquired a heavy social burden of unemployment and underemployment of 26.5 million people or 16.1 percent of the effective labor force (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/world-financial-turbulence-twenty-seven.html) that will not diminish significantly even with return to growth of GDP of 3 percent per year because of growth of the labor force by new entrants. The ratio of the labor force of 154.871 million in Jul 2007 to the noninstitutional population of 231.958 million in Jul 2007 was 66.8 percent while the ratio of the labor force of 155.903 million in Sep 2014 to the noninstitutional population of 248.446 million in Sep 2014 was 62.8 percent. The labor force of the US in Sep 2014 corresponding to 66.8 percent of participation in the population would be 165.962 million (0.668 x 248.446). The difference between the measured labor force in Sep 2014 of 155.903 million and the labor force in Sep 2014 with participation rate of 66.8 percent (as in Jul 2007) of 165.962 million is 10.059 million. The level of the labor force in the US has stagnated and is 10.059 million lower than what it would have been had the same participation rate been maintained. Millions of people have abandoned their search for employment because they believe there are no jobs available for them. The key issue is whether the decline in participation of the population in the labor force is the result of people giving up on finding another job. Structural change in demography occurs over relatively long periods and not suddenly as shown by Edward P. Lazear and James R. Spletzer (2012JHJul22). There is an abrupt cyclical event and no evidence for secular stagnation and similar propositions.

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

GDP SAAR USD Billions

 

    IQ1980

6,524.9

    IVQ1987

8,292.7

∆% IQ1980 to IVQ1987 (27.5 percent from IVQ1979 $6503.9 billion)

27.1

∆% Trend Growth IQ1980 to IVQ1987

27.6

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

GDP SAAR USD Billions

 

    IVQ2007

14,991.8

    IIQ2014

16,010.4

∆% IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 Actual

6.8

∆% IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 Trend Growth

22.1

2. Stagnating Per Capita Real Disposable Income

i. In the entire business cycle from IQ1980 to IVQ1987, as shown in Table IB-2, growth of per capita real disposable income, or what is left per person after inflation and taxes, grew cumulatively 19.8 percent, which is close to what would have been trend growth of 17.7 percent.

ii. In contrast, in the entire business cycle from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014, per capita real disposable income increased 4.7 percent while trend growth would have been 14.3 percent. Income available after inflation and taxes is about the same as before the contraction after 20 consecutive quarters of GDP growth at mediocre rates relative to those prevailing during historical cyclical expansions. Growth of personal income during the expansion has been tepid even with the new revisions. In IVQ2012, nominal disposable personal income grew at the SAAR of 13.8 percent and real disposable personal income at 11.8 percent (Table 2.1 http://bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm). The BEA explains as follows: “Personal income in November and December was boosted by accelerated and special dividend payments to persons and by accelerated bonus payments and other irregular pay in private wages and salaries in anticipation of changes in individual income tax rates. Personal income in December was also boosted by lump-sum social security benefit payments” (page 2 at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2013/pdf/pi1212.pdf pages 1-2 at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2013/pdf/pi0113.pdf). The Bureau of Economic Analysis explains as (http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2013/pdf/pi0213.pdf 2-3): “The January estimate of employee contributions for government social insurance reflected the expiration of the “payroll tax holiday,” that increased the social security contribution rate for employees and self-employed workers by 2.0 percentage points, or $114.1 billion at an annual rate. For additional information, see FAQ on “How did the expiration of the payroll tax holiday affect personal income for January 2013?” at www.bea.gov. The January estimate of employee contributions for government social insurance also reflected an increase in the monthly premiums paid by participants in the supplementary medical insurance program, in the hospital insurance provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and in the social security taxable wage base.”

The increase was provided in the “fiscal cliff” law H.R. 8 American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr8eas/pdf/BILLS-112hr8eas.pdf).

In IQ2013, personal income fell at the SAAR of minus 8.6 percent; real personal income excluding current transfer receipts at minus 11.9 percent; and real disposable personal income at minus 12.6 percent (Table 6 at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2014/pdf/pi0814.pdf). The BEA explains as follows (page 3 at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2013/pdf/pi0313.pdf):

“The February and January changes in disposable personal income (DPI) mainly reflected the effect of special factors in January, such as the expiration of the “payroll tax holiday” and the acceleration of bonuses and personal dividends to November and to December in anticipation of changes in individual tax rates.”

In IIQ2013, personal income grew at 4.5 percent, real personal income excluding current transfer receipts at 4.6 percent and real disposable income at 3.8 percent (http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2014/pdf/pi0814.pdf). In IIIQ2013, personal income grew at 3.3 percent, real personal income excluding current transfers at 1.5 percent and real disposable income at 2.0 percent (Table 6 at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2014/pdf/pi0814.pdf). In IVQ2013, personal income grew at 1.8 percent and real disposable income at 0.2 percent (Table 6 at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2014/pdf/pi0814.pdf). In IQ2014, personal income grew at 4.9 percent in nominal terms and 3.2 percent in real terms excluding current transfer receipts while nominal disposable income grew at 4.8 percent and real disposable income at 3.4 percent (http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2014/pdf/pi0814.pdf). In IIQ2014, personal income grew at 6.3 percent and 3.8 percent in real terms excluding current transfers. Nominal disposable income grew at 6.8 percent and at 4.4 percent in real terms (http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/2014/pdf/pi0814.pdf).

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IQ1980 Chained 2009 USD

20,241

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IVQ1987 Chained 2009 USD

24,239

∆% IQ1980 to IVQ1987 (19.8 percent from IVQ1982 $20,230)

19.8

∆% Trend Growth

17.7

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IVQ2007 Chained 2009 USD

35,819

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IIQ2014 Chained 2009 USD

37,494

∆% IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

4.7

∆% Trend Growth

14.3

3. Number of Employed Persons

i. As shown in Table IB-2, the number of employed persons increased over the entire business cycle from 98.527 million not seasonally adjusted (NSA) in IQ1980 to 113.679 million NSA in IVQ1987 or by 15.4 percent.

ii. In contrast, during the entire business cycle the number employed stagnated from 146.334 million in IVQ2007 to 147.104 million in IIQ2014 or by 0.5 percent. There are 28.6 million persons unemployed or underemployed, which is 16.3 percent of the effective labor force (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/fluctuating-financial-valuations.html).

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

Employed Millions IQ1980 NSA End of Quarter

98.527

Employed Millions IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

113.679

∆% Employed IQ1980 to IVQ1987

15.4

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

Employed Millions IVQ2007 NSA End of Quarter

146.334

Employed Millions IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

147.104

∆% Employed IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

0.5

4. Number of Full-Time Employed Persons

i. As shown in Table IB-2, during the entire business cycle in the 1980s, including contractions and expansion, the number of employed full-time rose from 81.280 million NSA in IQ1980 to 93.569 million NSA in IVQ1987 or 15.1 percent.

ii. In contrast, during the entire current business cycle, including contraction and expansion, the number of persons employed full-time fell from 121.042 million in IVQ2007 to 119.472 million in IIQ2014 or by minus 1.3 percent.

4. Number of Full-time Employed Persons

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

Employed Full-time Millions IQ1980 NSA End of Quarter

81.280

Employed Full-time Millions IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

93.569

∆% Full-time Employed IQ1980 to IVQ1987

15.1

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

Employed Full-time Millions IVQ2007 NSA End of Quarter

121.042

Employed Full-time Millions IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

119.472

∆% Full-time Employed IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

-1.3

5. Unemployed, Unemployment Rate and Employed Part-time for Economic Reasons.

i. As shown in Table IB-2 and in the following block, in the cycle from IQ1980 to IIIQ1987: (a) The rate of unemployment was slightly lower at 5.4 percent in IVQ1987 relative to 6.6 percent in IQ1980. (b) The number unemployed decreased from 6.983 million in IQ1980 to 6.526 million in IVQ1987 or 6.5 percent. (c) The number employed part-time for economic reasons increased 42.5 percent from 3.624 million in IQ1980 to 5.166 million in IVQ1987.

ii. In contrast, in the economic cycle from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014: (a) The rate of unemployment increased from 4.8 percent in IVQ2007 to 6.3 percent in IIQ2014. (b) The number unemployed increased 34.2 percent from 7.371 million in IVQ2007 to 9.893 million in IIQ2014. (c) The number employed part-time for economic reasons because they could not find any other job increased 64.3 percent from 4.750 million in IVQ2007 to 7.805 million in IIQ2014. (d) U6 Total Unemployed plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons as percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers NSA increased from 8.7 percent in IVQ2007 to 12.4 percent in IIQ2014.

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

Unemployment Rate IQ1980 NSA End of Quarter

6.6

Unemployment Rate  IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

5.4

Unemployed IQ1980 Millions End of Quarter

6.983

Unemployed IVQ1987 Millions End of Quarter

6.526

∆%

-6.5

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons Millions IQ1980 End of Quarter

3.624

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons Millions IVQ1987 End of Quarter

5.166

∆%

42.5

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

Unemployment Rate IVQ2007 NSA End of Quarter

4.8

Unemployment Rate IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

6.3

Unemployed IVQ2007 Millions End of Quarter

7.371

Unemployed IIQ2014 Millions End of Quarter

9.893

∆%

34.2

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons IVQ2007 Millions End of Quarter

4.750

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons Millions IIQ2014 End of Quarter

7.805

∆%

64.3

U6 Total Unemployed plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons as percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers NSA

 

IVQ2007

8.7

IIQ2014

12.4

6. Wealth of Households and Nonprofit Organizations.

The comparison of net worth of households and nonprofit organizations in the entire economic cycle from IQ1980 (and from IVQ1979) to IVQ1987 and from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 is provided in Table IIA-5. The data reveal the following facts for the cycles in the 1980s:

  • IVQ1979 to IVQ1987. Net worth increased 99.2 percent from IVQ1979 to IVQ1987, the all items CPI index increased 50.5 percent from 76.7 in Dec 1979 to 115.4 in Dec 1987 and real net worth increased 32.4 percent.
  • IQ1980 to IVQ1985. Net worth increased 65.4 percent, the all items CPI index increased 36.5 percent from 80.1 in Mar 1980 to 109.3 in Dec 1985 and real net worth increased 21.2 percent.
  • IVQ1979 to IVQ1985. Net worth increased 68.8 percent, the all items CPI index increased 42.5 percent from 76.7 in Dec 1979 to 109.3 in Dec 1985 and real net worth increased 18.5 percent.
  • IQ1980 to IVQ1987. Net worth increased 95.1 percent, the all items CPI index increased 44.1 percent from 80.1 in Mar 1980 to 115.4 in Dec 1987 and real net worth increased 35.4 percent.

There is disastrous performance in the current economic cycle:

  • IVQ2007 to IIQ2014. Net worth increased 22.0 percent, the all items CPI increased 13.5 percent from 210.036 in Dec 2007 to 238.343 in Jun 2014 and real or inflation adjusted net worth increased 7.5 percent. Real estate assets adjusted for inflation fell 13.5 percent.

The explanation is partly in the sharp decline of wealth of households and nonprofit organizations and partly in the mediocre growth rates of the cyclical expansion beginning in IIIQ2009. Long-term economic performance in the United States consisted of trend growth of GDP at 3 percent per year and of per capita GDP at 2 percent per year as measured for 1870 to 2010 by Robert E Lucas (2011May). The economy returned to trend growth after adverse events such as wars and recessions. The key characteristic of adversities such as recessions was much higher rates of growth in expansion periods that permitted the economy to recover output, income and employment losses that occurred during the contractions. Over the business cycle, the economy compensated the losses of contractions with higher growth in expansions to maintain trend growth of GDP of 3 percent and of GDP per capita of 2 percent. The US maintained growth at 3.0 percent on average over entire cycles with expansions at higher rates compensating for contractions. US economic growth has been at only 2.2 percent on average in the cyclical expansion in the 20 quarters from IIIQ2009 to IIQ2014. Boskin (2010Sep) measures that the US economy grew at 6.2 percent in the first four quarters and 4.5 percent in the first 12 quarters after the trough in the second quarter of 1975; and at 7.7 percent in the first four quarters and 5.8 percent in the first 12 quarters after the trough in the first quarter of 1983 (Professor Michael J. Boskin, Summer of Discontent, Wall Street Journal, Sep 2, 2010 http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882304575465462926649950.html). There are new calculations using the revision of US GDP and personal income data since 1929 by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (http://bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm) and the third estimate of GDP for IIQ2014 (http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2014/pdf/gdp2q14_3rd.pdf). The average of 7.7 percent in the first four quarters of major cyclical expansions is in contrast with the rate of growth in the first four quarters of the expansion from IIIQ2009 to IIQ2010 of only 2.7 percent obtained by diving GDP of $14,745.9 billion in IIQ2010 by GDP of $14,355.6 billion in IIQ2009 {[$14,745.9/$14,355.6 -1]100 = 2.7%], or accumulating the quarter on quarter growth rates (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/financial-volatility-mediocre-cyclical.html and earlier http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/geopolitical-and-financial-risks.html). The expansion from IQ1983 to IVQ1985 was at the average annual growth rate of 5.9 percent, 5.4 percent from IQ1983 to IIIQ1986, 5.2 percent from IQ1983 to IVQ1986, 5.0 percent from IQ1983 to IQ1987, 5.0 percent from IQ1983 to IIQ1987, 4.9 percent from IQ1983 to IIIQ1987, 5.0 percent from IQ1983 to IVQ1987 and at 7.8 percent from IQ1983 to IVQ1983 (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/financial-volatility-mediocre-cyclical.html and earlier http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/geopolitical-and-financial-risks.html). The US maintained growth at 3.0 percent on average over entire cycles with expansions at higher rates compensating for contractions. Growth at trend in the entire cycle from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 would have accumulated to 22.1 percent. GDP in IIQ2014 would be $18,305.0 billion (in constant dollars of 2009) if the US had grown at trend, which is higher by $2,294.6 billion than actual $16,010.4 billion. There are about two trillion dollars of GDP less than at trend, explaining the 26.5 million unemployed or underemployed equivalent to actual unemployment of 16.1 percent of the effective labor force (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/world-financial-turbulence-twenty-seven.html and earlier http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/competitive-monetary-policy-and.html). US GDP in IIQ2014 is 12.5 percent lower than at trend. US GDP grew from $14,991.8 billion in IVQ2007 in constant dollars to $16,010.4 billion in IIQ2014 or 6.8 percent at the average annual equivalent rate of 1.0 percent. Cochrane (2014Jul2) estimates US GDP at more than 10 percent below trend. The US missed the opportunity to grow at higher rates during the expansion and it is difficult to catch up because growth rates in the final periods of expansions tend to decline. The US missed the opportunity for recovery of output and employment always afforded in the first four quarters of expansion from recessions. Zero interest rates and quantitative easing were not required or present in successful cyclical expansions and in secular economic growth at 3.0 percent per year and 2.0 percent per capita as measured by Lucas (2011May). There is cyclical uncommonly slow growth in the US instead of allegations of secular stagnation. There is similar behavior in manufacturing. The long-term trend is growth at average 3.3 percent per year from Jan 1919 to Sep 2014. Growth at 3.3 percent per year would raise the NSA index of manufacturing output from 99.2392 in Dec 2007 to 123.5550 in Sep 2014. The actual index NSA in Sep 2014 is 102.0228, which is 17.4 percent below trend. Manufacturing output grew at average 2.3 percent between Dec 1986 and Dec 2013, raising the index at trend to 115.7028 in Sep 2014. The output of manufacturing at 102.0228 in Sep 2014 is 11.8 percent below trend under this alternative calculation.

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

Net Worth of Households and Nonprofit Organizations USD Millions

 

IVQ1979

IQ1980

9,049.0

9,239.9

IVQ1985

IIIQ1986

IVQ1986

IQ1987

IIQ1987

IIIQ1987

IVQ1987

15,279.1

16,292.8

16,842.4

17,496.7

17,786.1

18,197.5

18,024.1

∆ USD Billions IVQ1985

IVQ1987

IQ1980-IVQ1985

IQ1980-IIIQ1986

IQ1980-IVQ1986

IQ1980-IQ1987

IQ1980-IIQ1987

IQ1980-IIIQ1987

IQ1980-IVQ1987

+6,230.1  ∆%68.8 R∆%18.5

+8,975.1  ∆%99.2 R∆%32.4

+6,039.2 ∆%65.4 R∆%21.2

+7,052.9 ∆%76.3 R∆%28.2

+7,602.5 ∆%82.3 R∆%32.1

+8,256.8 ∆%89.4 R∆%35.3

+8,546.2 ∆%92.5 R∆%35.8

+8,957.6 ∆%96.9 R∆%37.2

+8784.2 ∆%95.1 R∆%35.4

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2013

 

Net Worth of Households and Nonprofit Organizations USD Millions

 

IVQ2007

66,802.7

IIQ2014

81,492.8

∆ USD Billions

+14,690.1 ∆%22.0 R∆%7.5

Net Worth = Assets – Liabilities. R∆% real percentage change or adjusted for CPI percentage change.

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 2014. Flow of funds, balance sheets and integrated macroeconomic accounts: second quarter 2014. Washington, DC, Federal Reserve System, Jun 5. http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/

Reserve System, Sep 18.

7. Gross Private Domestic Investment.

i. The comparison of gross private domestic investment in the entire economic cycles from IQ1980 to IVQ1987 and from IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 is in the following block and in Table IB-2. Gross private domestic investment increased from $951.6 billion in IQ1980 to $1,254.6 billion in IIIQ1987 or by 31.8 percent.

ii In the current cycle, gross private domestic investment increased from $2,605.2 billion in IVQ2007 to $2,703.7 billion in IIQ2014, or 3.8 percent. Private fixed investment edged from $2,586.3 billion in IVQ2007 to $2,594.5 billion in IIQ2014, or increase by 0.3 percent.

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

Gross Private Domestic Investment USD 2009 Billions

 

IQ1980

951.6

IVQ1987

1,254.6

∆%

31.8

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

Gross Private Domestic Investment USD Billions

 

IVQ2007

2,605.2

IIQ2014

2,703.7

∆%

3.8

Private Fixed Investment USD 2009 Billions

 

IVQ2007

2,586.3

IIQ2014

2,594.5

∆%

0.3

Table IB-2, US, GDP and Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita Actual and Trend Growth and Employment, 1980-1985 and 2007-2012, SAAR USD Billions, Millions of Persons and ∆%

   

Period IQ1980 to IVQ1987

 

GDP SAAR USD Billions

 

    IQ1980

6,524.9

    IVQ1987

8,292.7

∆% IQ1980 to

IVQ1987 (27.5 percent from IVQ1979 $6503.9 billion)

27.1

∆% Trend Growth IQ1980 to IVQ1987

27.6

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IQ1980 Chained 2009 USD

20,241

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IVQ1987 Chained 2009 USD

24,239

∆% IQ1980 to IVQ1987 (19.8 percent from IVQ1979 $20,230 billion)

19.8

∆% Trend Growth

17.7

Employed Millions IQ1980 NSA End of Quarter

98.527

Employed Millions IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

113.679

∆% Employed IQ1980 to IVQ1987

15.4

Employed Full-time Millions IQ1980 NSA End of Quarter

81.280

Employed Full-time Millions IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

93.569

∆% Full-time Employed IQ1980 to IVQ1987

15.1

Unemployment Rate IQ1980 NSA End of Quarter

6.6

Unemployment Rate  IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

5.4

Unemployed IQ1980 Millions NSA End of Quarter

6.983

Unemployed IVQ1987 Millions NSA End of Quarter

6.526

∆%

-6.5

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons IQ1980 Millions NSA End of Quarter

3.624

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons Millions IVQ1987 NSA End of Quarter

5.166

∆%

42.5

Net Worth of Households and Nonprofit Organizations USD Billions

 

IVQ1979

9,049.0

IVQ1987

18,024.1

∆ USD Billions

+8,975.1

∆% CPI Adjusted

32.4

Gross Private Domestic Investment USD 2009 Billions

 

IQ1980

951.6

IVQ1987

1254.6

∆%

31.8

Period IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

 

GDP SAAR USD Billions

 

    IVQ2007

14,991.8

    IIQ2014

16,010.4

∆% IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

6.8

∆% IVQ2007 to IIQ2014 Trend Growth

22.1

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IVQ2007 Chained 2009 USD

35,819

Real Disposable Personal Income per Capita IIQ2014 Chained 2009 USD

37,494

∆% IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

4.7

∆% Trend Growth

14.3

Employed Millions IVQ2007 NSA End of Quarter

146.334

Employed Millions IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

147.104

∆% Employed IVQ2007 to IIQ2014

0.5

Employed Full-time Millions IVQ2007 NSA End of Quarter

121.042

Employed Full-time Millions IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

119.472

∆% Full-time Employed IVQ2007 to IQ2014

-1.3

Unemployment Rate IVQ2007 NSA End of Quarter

4.8

Unemployment Rate IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

6.3

Unemployed IVQ2007 Millions NSA End of Quarter

7.371

Unemployed IIQ2014 Millions NSA End of Quarter

9.893

∆%

34.2

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons IVQ2007 Millions NSA End of Quarter

4.750

Employed Part-time Economic Reasons Millions IIQ2014 NSA End of Quarter

7.805

∆%

64.3

U6 Total Unemployed plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons as percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers NSA

 

IVQ2007

8.7

IQ2014

12.4

Net Worth of Households and Nonprofit Organizations USD Billions

 

IVQ2007

66,802.7

IIQ2014

81.492.8

∆ USD Billions

14,690.1 ∆%22.0 R∆%7.5

Gross Private Domestic Investment USD Billions

 

IVQ2007

2,605.2

IQ2014

2,703.7

∆%

3.8

Private Fixed Investment USD 2009 Billions

 

IVQ2007

2,586.3

IIQ2014

2,594.5

∆%

0.3

Note: GDP trend growth used is 3.0 percent per year and GDP per capita is 2.0 percent per year as estimated by Lucas (2011May) on data from 1870 to 2010.

Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm US Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/data/. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 2014. Flow of funds, balance sheets and integrated macroeconomic accounts: first quarter 2014. Washington, DC, Federal Reserve System, Jun 5. http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/The Congressional Budget Office (CBO 2014BEOFeb4) estimates potential GDP, potential labor force and potential labor productivity provided in Table IB-3. The CBO estimates average rate of growth of potential GDP from 1950 to 2012 at 3.3 percent per year. The projected path is significantly lower at 2.1 percent per year from 2013 to 2024. The legacy of the economic cycle expansion from IIIQ2009 to IIQ2014 is GDP growth at 2.2 percent on average is in contrast with 5.0 percent on average in the expansion from IQ1983 to IVQ1987 (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/financial-volatility-mediocre-cyclical.html). Subpar economic growth may perpetuate unemployment and underemployment estimated at 27.5 million or 16.1 percent of the effective labor force in Sep 2014 (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/world-financial-turbulence-twenty-seven.html) with much lower hiring than in the period before the current cycle (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/global-financial-volatility-recovery.html).

Table IB-3, US, Congressional Budget Office History and Projections of Potential GDP of US Overall Economy, ∆%

 

Potential GDP

Potential Labor Force

Potential Labor Productivity*

Average Annual ∆%

     

1950-1973

3.9

1.6

2.3

1974-1981

3.2

2.5

0.8

1982-1990

3.2

1.6

1.6

1991-2001

3.2

1.3

1.9

2002-2012

2.2

0.8

1.4

2007-2012

1.7

0.6

1.1

Total 1950-2012

3.3

1.5

1.8

Projected Average Annual ∆%

     

2013-2018

2.1

0.6

1.5

2019-2024

2.1

0.5

1.6

2013-2024

2.1

0.5

1.6

*Ratio of potential GDP to potential labor force

Source: CBO (2014BEOFeb4), CBO, Key assumptions in projecting potential GDP—February 2014 baseline. Washington, DC, Congressional Budget Office, Feb 4, 2014.

Chart IB-1 of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO 2013BEOFeb5) provides actual and potential GDP of the United States from 2000 to 2011 and projected to 2024. Lucas (2011May) estimates trend of United States real GDP of 3.0 percent from 1870 to 2010 and 2.2 percent for per capita GDP. The United States successfully returned to trend growth of GDP by higher rates of growth during cyclical expansion as analyzed by Bordo (2012Sep27, 2012Oct21) and Bordo and Haubrich (2012DR). Growth in expansions following deeper contractions and financial crises was much higher in agreement with the plucking model of Friedman (1964, 1988). The unusual weakness of growth at 2.2 percent on average from IIIQ2009 to IIQ2014 during the current economic expansion in contrast with 5.0 percent on average in the cyclical expansion from IQ1983 to IVQ1987[CP1] (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/financial-volatility-mediocre-cyclical.html) cannot be explained by the contraction of 4.3 percent of GDP from IVQ2007 to IIQ2009 and the financial crisis. Weakness of growth in the expansion is perpetuating unemployment and underemployment of 27.5 million or 16.1 percent of the labor force as estimated for Sep 2014 (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/world-financial-turbulence-twenty-seven.html). There is no exit from unemployment/underemployment and stagnating real wages because of the collapse of hiring (http://cmpassocregulationblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/global-financial-volatility-recovery.html). The US economy and labor markets collapsed without recovery. Abrupt collapse of economic conditions can be explained only with cyclic factors (Lazear and Spletzer 2012Jul22) and not by secular stagnation (Hansen 1938, 1939, 1941 with early dissent by Simons 1942).

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Chart IB-1, US, Congressional Budget Office, Actual and Projections of Potential GDP, 2000-2024, Trillions of Dollars

Source: Congressional Budget Office, CBO (2013BEOFeb5). The last year in common in both projections is 2017. The revision lowers potential output in 2017 by 7.3 percent relative to the projection in 2007.

Chart IB-2 provides differences in the projections of potential output by the CBO in 2007 and more recently on Feb 4, 2014, which the CBO explains in CBO (2014Feb28).

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Chart IB-2, Congressional Budget Office, Revisions of Potential GDP

Source: Congressional Budget Office, 2014Feb 28. Revisions to CBO’s Projection of Potential Output since 2007. Washington, DC, CBO, Feb 28, 2014.

Chart IB-3 provides actual and projected potential GDP from 2000 to 2024. The gap between actual and potential GDP disappears at the end of 2017 (CBO2014Feb4). GDP increases in the projection at 2.5 percent per year.

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Chart IB-3, Congressional Budget Office, GDP and Potential GDP

Source: CBO (2013BEOFeb5), CBO, Key assumptions in projecting potential GDP—February 2014 baseline. Washington, DC, Congressional Budget Office, Feb 4, 2014.

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