{"id":6151,"date":"2010-07-16T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2010-07-16T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:29:09","slug":"troubling-sign-u-s-manufacturer-capicity-utilization-slowed-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6151\/troubling-sign-u-s-manufacturer-capicity-utilization-slowed-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"More Troubling Economic News: U.S. Manufacturer Capicity Utilization Slowed in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should be a period of robust cyclical recovery from the past recession, but we received yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/federalreserve.gov\/releases\/g17\/Current\/default_sup.htm\" target=\"_blank\">troubling sign<\/a> from the Federal Reserve yesterday. For the month of June 2010, American manufacturers utilized only 71.4% of productive capacity, down from 71.7% utilization in June.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that instead of cranking up and increasing velocity, manufacturers decelerated from May to June.\u00a0 Moreover, this 72% capacity utilization compares with the post-war historical average of 81%.\u00a0 Translation:\u00a0 there exists a lot of slack in our economy at a time when we should be expanding.\u00a0 This news comes on the heels of reports that American companies are <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5710\/data-consumers-and-businesses-battening-down-the-hatches-due-to-obamanomics\/\" target=\"_blank\">hoarding a record $2 trillion<\/a> rather than spending it on expansion or job creation, and adds to the sense that Obamanomics are subduing our recovery, not stimulating it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should be a period of robust cyclical recovery from the past recession, but we received yet another troubling sign from the Federal Reserve yesterday. For the month of June 2010, American manufacturers utilized only 71.4% of productive capacity, down from 71.7% utilization in June. What this means is that instead of cranking up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1567,19,544,1568,24,179],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-capacity","tag-economy","tag-federal-reserve","tag-manufacturing","tag-obama","tag-stimulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}