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The Wages of Sin
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Below is the Manufacturing PMI, which illustrates if manufacturing in the United States is growing (above 50) or shrinking (under 50). The left side of the chart shows a steady, potent increase in economic strength. Notice a change over the past couple of years? Now this illustrates a coughing, wheezing, sputtering economy, month after month, whose latest data point was another big miss. And keep in mind, this is GOVERNMENT data. Reality is vastly worse!
Next week is gonna be lit!
Simple economics: