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A more telling indicator of progress – or lack of it – is the minimal improvement in education.
The unemployment rate among those who have been unemployed for less than six months – a key indicator of inflation pressure – is down to 3.8%.
This matters, because investors often use the debt ratio as an indicator of financial sustainability.
When monetary support is finally withdrawn, this will be an indicator of the economic recovery’s ability to withstand higher interest rates.
For example, forty years ago, when fear of nuclear proliferation was new, my teacher and friend Vassili Leontief, who invented the macroeconomic table of inter-industrial flows, argued that the best indicator of an illegal arms program is massive electricity consumption.
This sounds like a good indicator of wealth, but, as is frequently pointed out, it includes things that do not make us richer and leaves out things that do.
One approach centers on prices, with the consumer price index appearing to be the most obvious indicator.
Attention to classroom tasks, such as reading, is related to more general indicators of cognitive performance, such as reading achievement , so it is an important indicator of the effects of break time .
It is inevitably a long road from a starting point where credits are channeled to state-owned enterprises through state-owned banks to an economic environment in which interest rates are a proper indicator of monetary policy.
Its rate of inflation, to cite just one indicator, now rivals that of Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany.
Pick any indicator: trade relative to global GDP, capital flows relative to the global capital stock, and so forth – all are rising.
The first indicator is weekly unemployment claims in the US, from which one can gauge the overall strength of the US economy.
Economists are rightly trained to treat unemployment as a lagging indicator, but these data can also be useful in forecasting the near future.
US jobless claims are always up to date, because they are produced weekly, and statistical evidence suggests that they are a leading indicator for US equity prices.
A third indicator is a subcomponent of the same ISM survey: manufacturers’ new orders and inventories.
Looking beyond the US, a fourth indicator is the ratio of Chinese retail spending relative to industrial production (adjusted for inflation).
A fifth indicator is South Korean trade data, which is consistently reported on the first day of each month after trades occur – faster than any other country.
The last key indicator is the monthly Ifo Business Climate Index in Germany, which contains useful cyclical data for Europe overall, owing to Germany’s centrality in the continent’s economy.
Although China remains far less open to foreign direct investment than most advanced economies, the OECD’s composite indicator shows that there has been continuous, albeit sluggish, improvement.
In the 1930s, the economist Simon Kuznets identified gross national product as an indicator of an economy’s output of goods and services over a given period.
Now, GNP – along with gross domestic product, or GDP – is regarded as the de facto indicator of national welfare around the world.
Some suggest focusing on rapid increases in the volume of bank and nonbank lending to the non-financial private sector as an indicator that lending is growing riskier.
To be sure, as 2015 begins, Putin’s approval ratings remain high (though they are no more reliable an indicator than Russian budget projections, political pronouncements, or gas deliveries).
If an increase in the short-term rate were expected to persist or to be an indicator of further increases in the future, the long-term rate would also rise.
An important indicator of the magnitude of the new global economy’s challenges is that so few countries satisfy all three requirements.
If America is any indicator, the sky is the limit when it comes to potential gains from health IT.
As a rule, German presidential elections are highly charged events, because they can be an early indicator of emerging new political majorities.
They point to the pound’s recent depreciation as a leading indicator of the financial instability that would accompany a British exit (or “Brexit”).
For example, following criticism of the “Employing Workers” indicator, the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank’s private-sector lending arm) conducted a review and removed it as a contributing factor to the rankings.
While that is not showing up in the composition of final demand (at least not yet), the shift from manufacturing and construction toward services is a far more meaningful indicator at this stage in the transformation.
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