More front-running in March, for durable goods orders; but more manufacturing contraction in April
– by New Deal democrat This morning we got more hard data on manufacturing, one from March, one for this month. In March new durable goods orders (blue in the graph below) soared higher by 9.2% to an all-time high. This was all about front-running tariffs, because excepting motor vehicles they were unchanged (not shown). […]