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From: Paul H. Christiansen11/23/2014 11:55:53 AM
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GOLDMAN: So Far, Larry Summers Has Been Wrong About The US Economy

About a year ago, former Treasury secretary Larry Summers gave his famous speech at the IMF about "secular stagnation."

The basic idea behind secular stagnation is that the economy in its current condition is unable to create enough demand to sustain its growth trend, requiring negative interest rates for the Fed to hit its employment and inflation goals.

In a note to clients over the weekend, Goldman Sachs economist Jari Stehn revisits Summers' hypothesis, and writes that while it's still early, there are signs pointing towards a US economy that may not, in fact, be stuck in secular stagnation.

The key figure proponents of the secular stagnation hypothesis point to is the "output gap" that has shown up in the economy since about 2006.

Since 2006, the US has underperformed the Congressional Budget Office's projections for real GDP.

And so while the financial crisis and resulting recession certainly put a dent in GDP, the economy still hasn't gotten back to the growth trend it was experiencing before the crisis.

The the economy has failed to close this "output gap" has been a staple of the argument that we're stuck in secular stagnation, and that our economic problems of the last several years are secular rather than cyclical.

Goldman expects the US economy to experience above-trend growth through 2017. This is in contrast to an economy stuck in secular stagnation, which would not see above-trend growth over a period of several years.

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GOLDMAN: So Far, Larry Summers Has Been Wrong About The US Economy
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