{"id":436296,"date":"2026-08-14T23:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-goolsbee-us-gdp-and-labor-markets-are-basically-stable-436296\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:49:30","slug":"feds-goolsbee-us-gdp-and-labor-markets-are-basically-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/feds-goolsbee-us-gdp-and-labor-markets-are-basically-stable-436296\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Goolsbee: US GDP and labor markets are basically stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chicago Fed Pres. Goolsby is on the wires saying<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US\u00a0GDP and labor market are basically stable<\/li>\n<li>The weak retail sales represents one month of data<\/li>\n<li>Continued spending weakness could be worrying<\/li>\n<li>supported the July rate decision<\/li>\n<li>Notes is that the past two productivity data releases were very poor.\u00a0 If it persists, it could change the AI narrative\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Encouraged by CPI reports and need more data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Goolsbee tends to go with the flow. He can be more hawkish or more dovish.\u00a0 \u00a0His comments on\u00a0productivity are a concern for for inflation and have implications for US stocks.\u00a0\u00a0At the same time, wonder if the productivity measures are being influenced by the  upfront costs with the \u00a0majority of the gains to be determined. But that is a $64,000 question for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Fed Pres. Goolsby is on the wires saying US\u00a0GDP and labor market are basically stable The weak retail sales represents one month of data Continued spending weakness could be worrying supported&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}