{"id":660713,"date":"2010-02-10T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:394361"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:37:00","slug":"u-s-recovery-running-out-of-gas-trucker-index-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660713","title":{"rendered":"U.S. recovery running out of gas, trucker index suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. recovery is losing momentum, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/economy\/2010-02-10-truckers10_ST_N.htm\" >a new index <\/a>that tracks truckers as they crisscross the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce index measures diesel fill-ups at more than 7,000 U.S. gas stations. Since trucking activity tends to rise or fall in line with the overall economy, the index is intended to provide a nearly instantaneous look at the pace of economic growth. <\/p>\n<p>The most recent news isn\u2019t good. The index fell at a 37% annual rate in January after soaring nearly 61% in December. Its three-month moving average slowed to 3.3% annual growth.<\/p>\n<p>All of this suggests that the U.S. economy is nowhere near as hot as recent government figures might suggest. Washington says the economy grew at a 5.7% annual rate in the fourth quarter, but the trucking index indicates that January, in particular, was a weak month. \u201cDon\u2019t put your party hats on yet,\u201d says Edward Leamer, the UCLA economist who helped create the index.<\/p>\n<p><i>Freelance business journalist Ian McGugan blogs for the Financial Post. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=394361\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. recovery is losing momentum, according to a new index that tracks truckers as they crisscross the country. The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce index measures diesel fill-ups at more than 7,000 U.S. gas stations. Since trucking activity tends to rise or fall in line with the overall economy, the index is intended to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LSF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}