The December Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey was published on December 17, 2012.  The headline is “Economy Poised to Nudge Ahead in 2013.”

Although I don’t agree with various aspects of the survey’s contents, I found numerous items to be notable, both within the article and in the Q&A found in the spreadsheet.

A couple of  excerpts:

As 2012 comes to a close, the U.S. economy is also turning a page: The recovery is over. It looks like 2013 will be the start of a more normal, though hardly robust, period of growth.

also:

But even with that looming threat, economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal put the odds of a recession next year at just 24%. Not coincidentally, those odds are closely aligned with the odds—26%—that the economists put on a standoff that allows the tax and spending policies to take effect. Get past the cliff, and most economists expect reasonably solid growth.

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The current average forecasts among economists polled include the following:

GDP:

full-year 2012:  1.9%

full-year 2013:  2.3%

full-year 2014:  2.8%

full-year 2015:  2.9%

Unemployment Rate:

December 2012: 7.8%

December 2013: 7.5%

December 2014: 7.0%

10-Year Treasury Yield:

December 2012: 1.67%

December 2013: 2.26%

December 2014: 2.88%

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Please Note – The above is excerpted from the EconomicGreenfield.com (published by StratX, LLC) post of December 17, 2012, titled “The December 2012 Wall Street Journal Economic Forecast Survey”

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