{"id":50793,"date":"2017-08-30T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=50793"},"modified":"2017-08-30T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:10:59","slug":"a-few-quick-eco-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/30\/a-few-quick-eco-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Quick Eco Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real GDP came in at 3% &#8211; a welcome move higher that has been a tough mark to hit. Warren Buffett just commented that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t feel like a 3% economy&#8221; &#8211; but the numbers show that things are picking up.<\/p>\n<p>With the Fed moving slowly on any rate hikes and the potential for the unwind of the QE portfolio looking like it will take upwards of a decade, low rates and upbeat confidence has helped to push the economy into higher gear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50794\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gdp2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gdp2018.jpg 552w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gdp2018-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Employment numbers continue to look strong. Today&#8217;s ADP report showed a significant beat above expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50795\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adp08302017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adp08302017.jpg 549w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adp08302017-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/adp08302017-440x264.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friday the expectations for a stronger employment number have ratcheted higher. However some economists are already talking down expectations as August has shown to be a month with some wonky numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real GDP came in at 3% &#8211; a welcome move higher that has been a tough mark to hit. Warren Buffett just commented that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t feel like a 3% economy&#8221; &#8211; but the numbers show that things are picking up. With the Fed moving slowly on any rate hikes and the potential for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogandupdates","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}