US economy & QE3

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The institutional bank at NAB does some good research but they have a habit of interpreting data with an overly bullish eye. That is one one reason why I prefer the output at Westpac. Still, every so often they produce a report worth your time and today is one of those days with a neat and succinct update on the state of the US economy as well as the possibility of QE3. I’d take the under on their growth projections but other than that I agree with everything in this report. The timing of QE3 is a major issue for 2012 with big implications for commodities and China.

2012-01-16 US update[1]

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.