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Improving the McKelvey Recession Indicator, No False Negative or Positive Signals
Adding the job vacancy rate to the McKelvey (Claudia Sahm) recession signal eliminates false negatives and false positives, and provides a much faster signal than Sahm. chart This idea was one of the things Adam Taggart and I discussed last week on Thoughtful Money, posted today. tweet Credit for the indicator goes to McKelvey for the original idea, and importantly to Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez for the second signal. I will refer to the pair and the improvement as PMES, their initials. Also, and I cannot emphasize this enough, credit goes to Regis Barnichon for the data and idea used by PMES and me in ... (full story)