This dashboard is designed to bypass the shortcomings of the more politicized and legacy economic metrics by focusing on a set of higher-frequency, less gamed indicators that capture the economy as it actually unfolds month by month. Instead of a single blunt figure, like GDP, it looks to employment flows, wages, credit stress, and sentiment to tell a more transparent story.

The indicators featured here collectively provide a sharper lens on economic momentum:

• The Coincident Index and Weekly Economic Index condense labor market activity, hours worked, wages, and spending into timely signals of growth.

• Measures of unemployment duration and claimant dynamics show whether job losses are fleeting or becoming more persistent.

• Credit stress, reflected in delinquency rates for business and consumer loans, highlights early warning signs of strain in the financial system.

• And sentiment indicators, drawn from volatility trackers, gauge how businesses and consumers perceive uncertainty (and sometimes whether they will act upon it).

Taken together, these dimensions provide a richer, more diagnostic perspective than GDP, equipping you with a clearer sense of where the economy really stands right now.

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