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St Louis Finance Lending and Loan Reduction News: Orszag Says 2011 May Be Looking Worse Than Originally Expected
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Several months ago, Peter Orszag, Obama's former director of the Office of Management and Budget, offered his views to the media in a conference call entitled: "Out with the Rhetoric and In With the Facts on the Budget."

The tectonic shifts in the financial sector, housing market, and subsequent (and ongoing) consumer de-leveraging pose drastically difficult obstacles for the Federal Reserve.

Orszag noted that, unlike slowdowns that are associated with monetary policy being tweaked in

order to address inflation concerns, downturns triggered by the financial sector tend to take result in longer and more sluggish recoveries.

A recent study by Reinhart and Reinhart of roughly 30 similar instances of economic downturns triggered by difficulty in the financial sector suggests the following: that the average unemployment rate in the decade following such crises is 5 percent higher than immediately pre-crisis, that housing prices are 15-20 percent lower over the entire subsequent decade versus pre-crisis levels, and that government debt as a percentage of GDP is 90 percent higher than the pre-crisis level.

The increase in debt, according to Orszag, reflects the downturn itself and the policy measures that are taken to offset it. So what does the next 12-to 24 months look like?

First the positives:

1. Real exports are growing quite rapidly (aided by the weakened U.S. Dollar).

2. Investment in equipment and software has been growing nicely and firms are making significant investments in short-term assets. The problem on the investment side is in the long-term -- assets with longer depreciation schedules are seeing a historically low share of investment allocation.

3. Corporate profits have improved. They were 12 percent of GDP in 2006 and 2007, falling to 9 percent in 2009 and are now back up to 11 percent of GDP on 2010. The difference between 9 percent and 11 percent represents $300 billion in GDP, so it's significant step up.

One caveat pertaining to point number 3 is that the surge in corporate profits is not resulting in significant hiring or long-term investments. Rather the profits are being retained as liquid assets.

The psychological impact of the Great Recession is clearly impacting the behavior of both the consumer and corporate America.

The effectiveness, or lack thereof, of the Federal Reserve's actions is leaving a huge question mark over the economic outlook.

Now the negatives: (The factors that supported growth in late 2009 and 2010 will become significant headwinds in 2011.)

1. The inventory cycle is going the wrong way in the first part of 2011; moving to net-neutrality towards impact on GDP growth. As a side note, Orszag noted that the sequential improvement in GDP in the third quarter was unintentional as some firms were caught out by the slump in demand during the summer and unintentionally built up inventories. That trend, Orszag expects, will reverse itself in the fourth quarter and the early part of 2011.

2. The Recovery Act, despite the controversy, added 2 percent or more to GDP in the first half of 2010. By design, the act called for all the money to be "out the door" by the end of September. Going forward, the cost of the Recovery Act will be net neutral and eventually in terms of cash flow will be a net negative to GDP growth.

3. The final factor is state and local deficits, which are projected to be $100 to $150 billion a year for the next two tears. Going forward, a much smaller share of them will be offset by federal subsidies, therefore a much larger share of the deficits will need to be reduced through tax increases and spending cuts at the state and local level.

Taking points two and three together added a net 2 percent to GDP in first half of 2010 and will be a negative 2 percent to growth in the first half of 2011.

If you then add the positive inventory cycle of 3.4 percent in the first half of 2010, you get the total contribution to GDP growth from the three factors of 5.4 percent during the first half of the year.

Depending on your view of the inventory cycle, we are looking at a potential year-over-year swing in GDP in the first half of 2011 of around 5.4 percent, which becomes a headwind in the next 12 to 24 months.

At best, we are looking at 0-2 percent GDP growth for the next 12-24 months.

What does all this mean for the consumer and the unemployment rate?

Under a good scenario, it's going to be a hard slog of 1-2 percent GDP growth, which will prove to be inadequate to reduce the unemployment rate.

Here's Orszag's rule of thumb on this: Take whatever the GDP growth rate is, subtract 2.5 percent, and divide by two to get to the percentage change in unemployment.

So, to get a 1 percent reduction in the unemployment rate you need GDP growth of 4.5 percent for one year (4.5 minus 2.5 divided by 2).

Given the GDP headwinds outlined on the call, it seems unlikely that the unemployment rate will improve meaningfully any time soon.

This is particularly problematic for U.S. corporations levered to domestic demand.

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