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Happy Thanksgiving to our listeners in the United States. We have lots to be thankful for. I\\u2019m personally thankful for a long list of things. I\\u2019m thankful for my health, for my family, for having the privilege of working with great people. I\\u2019m grateful for friendship and for you the listener to the podcast. I love listener questions.\\xa0

On today show, we are looking at several leading indicators that are painting a much clearer picture of what\\u2019s happening in the economy then the shortlist of lagging indicators that the federal reserve references as meaningful in their committee meetings that are held a times a year.

The Federal Reserve is fixated on inflation, Gross, domestic product and unemployment. The only way to reduce wage and price increases is with a contraction in aggregate demand. However, government spending continues to grow with any contraction being disproportionately, concentrated on the private sector. The government didn\\u2019t get the memo that demand needs to shrink.