claim: "last week the blue chip economic indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."
author: christina romer
evidence_1: blue chip economic indicators is a monthly survey and associated publication by  the blue chip publications division of aspen publishers collecting  macroeconomic forecasts related to the economy of the united states. the  survey polls america's top business economists, collecting their forecasts of u.s.  economic growth, ...
evidence_2: may 28, 2014 ... contributing to the concern is the fact that residential investment contracted in the  past two quarters—the first consecutive quarterly declines since the end ... the  model suggests that with normal weather and ongoing improvements in labor  markets and the broader economy, growth in residential investment ...
evidence_3: term economic weakness, and a january 2009 cbo testimony, the state of the  economy and ... the recession began in the fourth quarter of 2007. how- ... nearly  all profes- sional forecasters believe that the economy has passed the trough of  the recession, but many also predict that the pace of the recovery will be slow.
evidence_4: jan 12, 2017 ... ao world plunged 22p to 162.3p as it remains “cautious” about the final quarter  of the year given the uncertain uk economic outlook. ... commenting on the  index's wobble, neil wilson, of etx capital, said: "after a remarkable start to  2017, the ftse 100 has finally run out of steam and we can thank trump ...
evidence_5: mar 4, 2002 ... the nys ways and means committee staff forecast for real gdp growth in 2002  is 1.5 percent, the same as the blue chip economic consensus (see table 1 ...  quarterly real gdp growth is expected to accelerate coming out of the recession  and then stabilize between 3.1 and 3.9 percent (see figure 3).