Watch For Unexpected Headline Economic Weakness as
Artificially Strong Numbers Reverse, with Hurricane Boosts Beginning to Unwind

Natural-Disaster-Scrambled Data Suggest Looming, Major Revisions

A New Fed Chairman Will Face the Same Banking-System and
Economic Challenges that Befuddled the Yellen/Bernanke Chairmanships

First Estimate of Third-Quarter 2017 GDP Growth Was 2.99%
Versus 3.06% in Second-Quarter, 1.24% in First-Quarter

Third-Quarter 2017 Final Sales Growth (GDP Net of Inventories) Was 2.26%
Versus 2.94% in Second-Quarter, 2.70% in First-Quarter

Headline GDP Details Did Not Make Sense in Terms of Underlying Series

Better-Quality Economic Measures Continue to Show
No Full Recovery from the Collapse into 2009 and No Economic Expansion, with
Stagnant Real-World Activity Increasingly Indicating a Renewed, Deepening Downturn