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Copyright 2020 Shadow Government Statistics, Walter J. Williams, www.shadowstats.com 1
ShadowStats Flash Commentary, Issue No. 1433
Hyperinflation Risks, Retail Sales Benchmarking, Pandemic Economic Hit
April 28, 2020
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Retail Sales Benchmarking Showed the GDP Slowing
More Than Headlined, Coming Into the Pandemic Shutdown
ShadowStats Forecasts First-Quarter 2020 Annualized Real GDP Activity
Ultimately Will Show a Drop of About 7.1% (-7.1%), With
Second-Quarter GDP Plunging by Roughly 38% (-38%)
Optimistic Expectations for an Initial First-Quarter Decline of 3.5% (-3.5%)
Incorporate Overly Positive Reporting Assumptions That Filled Gaps in
Initial, Limited-Quality Reporting of Activity in Underlying Series
Assuming Some Pandemic Relief, GDP Could Be Off Bottom Before Year-End;
Full Recovery Will Be Difficult and Complicated
Mounting Risks of a Hyperinflationary Great Depression, as the
Federal Reserve and Federal Government Launch Unlimited
Money Creation, Deficit Spending and Financial Bailouts
Annual Growth in Money Supply M1, M2 and the ShadowStats M3
Jumped to Historic Highs in First Two Weeks of April 2020
Watch for Early Inflation Warning Signal in Surging Price of Gold
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Contents – Flash Commentary (Issue No. 1433)
Crisis Overview – Unfolding Economic Reality, Hyperinflation Risks 3
Downside Annual Retail Sales Benchmarking Hit 2018 Activity Particularly Hard 3 Pre-Pandemic GDP Growth Was Weaker Than Headlined 3 First- and Second-Quarter GDP Face Intensifying Real Quarterly Contractions 3 Immune to Monetary Stimulus, Recovery Requires an End to Pandemic Restrictions 3 Federal Reserve Is Creating Unlimited Money in Hopes of Preventing Systemic Collapse 3 Unlimited Money Creation and Unfettered Deficit Spending Risk Hyperinflation 3
Table I - ShadowStats Projection of Pandemic Economic Impact (Updated from Nos. 1430 and 1432)................................. 3
Retail Sales 2020 Benchmark Revisions 5
Graph 1: Real Retail Sales Benchmark Revisions 2017 to 2020 (Level) ............................................................................... 6
Graph 2: Real Retail Sales Benchmark Revisions 2017 to 2020 (Year-to-year Change) ....................................................... 6
Graph 3: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales 2000 to 2020 (Level) .................................................................................. 7
Graph 4: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales 2000 to 2020 (Year-to-Year)....................................................................... 7
Graph 5: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales, Full Historical Series (Level) .................................................................... 8
Graph 6: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales, Full Historical Series (Year-to-Year Change) ............................................ 8
Hyperinflation Risks 9 Watch for a Surging Gold Price as a Hyperinflation Signal 9
Graph 7: ShadowStats Alternate (1980-Base) Annual Inflation versus Headline CPI-U ..................................................... 10
Graph 8: Gold versus Actual Inflation .............................................................................................................................. 11
Beware the Federal Reserve! 11 U.S. Central Bank Has Moved to Unprecedented Extremes To Create Inflation 11
Graph 9: Federal Reserve, Required Reserves of Depository Institutions ........................................................................... 12
Graph 10: Money Supply, Monthly Year-to-Year Growth to March 2020; April 2020 (First Two Weeks) ........................... 12
Graph 11: Historical M1 Money Supply ............................................................................................................................ 13
Graph 12: Historical M2 Money Supply ............................................................................................................................ 13
Graph 13: Historical M3 Money Supply ............................................................................................................................ 13
Graph 14: Federal Reserve Monetary Base ....................................................................................................................... 14
Graph 15: Federal Reserve Monetary Base (2000-to-Date), Year-to-Year Change ............................................................ 14
Graph 16: Total Assets All Federal Reserve Banks (2000-to-Date) .................................................................................... 15
Graph 17: Total Assets All Federal Reserve Banks (2000-to-Date), Year-to-Year Change.................................................. 15
Updated Financial Markets 16 Physical Gold and Swiss Franc Continue to Protect U.S. Dollar Purchasing Power 16
Graph 18: February to April 2020 Financial Markets-to-Date, February 12 DJIA Peak = 100 .......................................... 16
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Crisis Overview – Unfolding Economic Reality, Hyperinflation Risks
Downside Annual Retail Sales Benchmarking Hit 2018 Activity Particularly Hard
Pre-Pandemic GDP Growth Was Weaker Than Headlined
First- and Second-Quarter GDP Face Intensifying Real Quarterly Contractions
Immune to Monetary Stimulus, Recovery Requires an End to Pandemic Restrictions
Federal Reserve Is Creating Unlimited Money in Hopes of Preventing Systemic Collapse
Unlimited Money Creation and Unfettered Deficit Spending Risk Hyperinflation
The “Advance” Headline Decline in First-Quarter 2020 GDP Likely Will Be Overly Optimistic, and
Subject to Deeper Headline Contractions in May and June, and in the July Benchmark Revisions.
Consensus forecasts for tomorrow’s (April 29th) “Advance” First-Quarter 2020 GDP are centered around
an annualized real quarterly contraction of 3.5% (-3.5%). Those estimates are overly optimistic, based on
poor-quality headline reporting of underlying economic activity in the quarter, where pandemic-disrupted
data most assuredly were guesstimated to the upside of reality. Such is common practice in government
reporting when the hard numbers are in question, as was evident in the disrupted Retail Sales reporting of
December 2018, as discussed later in the 2020 Retail Sales Benchmarking. Detail will follow the
headline reporting by noon EDT in the April 29th Daily Update section on the www.ShadowStats.com
home page, with expanded coverage in pending Flash Commentary No. 1434 on April 30th
Table I - ShadowStats Projection of Pandemic Economic Impact (Updated from Nos. 1430 and 1432)
Actual Forecast Forecast
Measure 4q2019 1q2020 2q2020
Real GDP Q/Q 2.1% -7.1%r -38%r
Real GDP Y/Y 2.3% -0.3%r -12%r
Actual Actual Forecast
Feb 2020 Mar 2020 Apr 2020
U.3 Unemployment 3.5% 4.4% 21%r
ShadowStats Alternate 21.1% 22.9% 41%r
The GDP forecasts here have been updated from Special Commentary, Issue No. 1430 and the
Unemployment forecasts from Flash Commentary No. 1432. The April unemployment forecasts reflect
the latest, relevant, weekly New Claims for Unemployment. Headline U.3 unemployment of 3.5% in
February 2020, increased to 4.4% in March, versus a ShadowStats forecast of “up to 5%.” Please note
that the headline March 2010 U.3 Unemployment Rate would have been about 10.4%, had the recognized
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10-million missed unemployment claims in March been reflected in the headline unemployment
surveying. The ShadowStats April forecast for U.3 is 21% [previously 25%], where the headline April
detail will be released on May 8th. The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment measure was 21.1% in
February and increased to 22.9% in March, against a forecast of 23.0%. The current April forecast is a
revised 41% [previously 43%], depending on unstable and inconsistent sampling/surveying patterns and
increasing counts of persons working part-time for economic reasons or otherwise marginally-attached to
the labor force.
Retail Sales Annual Benchmarking Confirmed Historical Overstatement of Headline GDP
Reporting Since 2017. Coverage of the 2020 annual benchmark revisions to the Retail Sales series
begins on Page 5. As predicted in Flash Update No. 21 of February 11, 2020, the Retail Sales series
benchmarked to the downside, foreshadowing likely downside revisions to other series, particularly the
July 30th annual GDP benchmarking.
Hyperinflation – Pandemic-Driven Economic Collapse and Resulting Federal Reserve Money
Creation and Government Deficit Spending Trigger Risks of Hyperinflationary Economic Collapse.
Some highlights and summary details from the pending ShadowStats Special Hyperinflation
Commentary, Issue No. 1435 follow, beginning on Page 9.
ShadowStats Evolving Coverage of the Pandemic-Induced Economic and Financial Turmoil.
Disrupted economic and financial-system circumstances remain highly fluid and volatile. Accordingly,
ShadowStats assessments will be updated with frequent Flash Commentaries in the weeks ahead,
interspersed with Special Commentaries, as needed. Initial scheduling plans already have shifted, as
follows:
ShadowStats Flash Commentary No. 1434 will post April 30th, reviewing the April 29th headline
reporting of the initial estimate of First-Quarter 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and any new
Federal Reserve actions out of the April 28th to 29th Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC Press
Conference on the 29th).
ShadowStats Special Commentary, Issue No. 1435 - Risk of Hyperinflationary Collapse follows on May
4th, having been rescheduled several times, because of shifting and unfolding economic, financial-market
and political developments. Key points from this Hyperinflation Report are highlighted in the
Hyperinflation Risks section. Specific schedules, headline reporting, intervening events and unusual
developments all are covered regularly in the Daily Update section of the ShadowStats Home Page.
For earlier and evolving assessments of the last month, see Special Commentary, Issue No. 1429, Special
Commentary, Issue No. 1430, Flash Commentary, Issue No. 1431 and Flash Commentary No. 1432
Please call me any time, with a question on the evolving circumstances, or if you just would like to
talk, at (707) 763-5786. Leave a message if your call goes to Voicemail. I shall be back to you.
Your questions and comments always are welcomed. Again, please contact:
John Williams (707) 763-5786, [email protected].
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Retail Sales 2020 Benchmark Revisions
Downside Annual Retail Sales Benchmark Revisions Primarily Hit 2018, Reducing Real Average
Annual Growth There from 2.34% to 1.94%. As headlined in Flash Update No. 21 of February 11,
2020, covering the annual benchmark revisions to Payroll Employment: First Major Economic
Benchmark Revision for 2019 Signaled Large Downside Revisions Pending for the GDP and Retail
Sales. Indeed the pattern of revisions in the 2020 Retail Sales Benchmarking (January 2013 through
February 2020) showed meaningful downside revisions in terms of both level and year-to-year change for
2018, particularly consistent with a sharp downside revision to Fourth-Quarter 2018, which ShadowStats
contends will come out of the pending July 30th GDP Benchmark Revisions as marking the onset of a
currently unrecognized recession. Reflecting issues with data quality during the year-end 2018 U.S.
Government shutdown, December 2018 Real Retail Sales, for example, have now declined year-to-year
by a revised 1.00% (-1.00%), previously down by 0.36% (-0.36%).
Retail Sales level of activity (not growth) also revised lower in 2019 and 2020, riding on top of the
downside adjustments to 2018. Against the regular April 15th monthly Retail Sales headline reporting
(see Flash Commentary No. 1432), the level of the inflation-adjusted “Advance” March 2020 activity
was unrevised. Monthly growth in March still collapsed, however, down by a revised, record 8.0%
(-8.0%) [previously 8.3% (-8.3%)] in the month, with First-Quarter 2020 activity plunging at an
annualized 9.8% (-9.8%) pace, the worst since the Great Recession.
Graphs 1 and 2 highlight the major revisions, all post-2017. Again, the downside revisions in annual
growth were concentrated in 2018, with the downside revisions to level in 2019 just shifting lower on top
of 2018. Graphs 3 and 4 and Graphs 5 and 6 show the standard 2000-to-date and full historical series
plots, updated for the benchmark revised data.
[Graphs 1 to 6 begin on the next page]
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Graph 1: Real Retail Sales Benchmark Revisions 2017 to 2020 (Level)
Graph 2: Real Retail Sales Benchmark Revisions 2017 to 2020 (Year-to-year Change)
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Graph 3: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales 2000 to 2020 (Level)
Graph 4: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales 2000 to 2020 (Year-to-Year)
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Graph 5: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales, Full Historical Series (Level)
Graph 6: Benchmark Revised Real Retail Sales, Full Historical Series (Year-to-Year Change)
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Hyperinflation Risks
Watch for a Surging Gold Price as a Hyperinflation Signal
The Federal Reserve and Federal Government Have Launched
Unlimited Money Creation, Deficit Spending and Financial Bailouts
Throwing Infinite Money at Limited Availability of Goods and Services
Threatens a Hyperinflationary Great Depression
Annual Growth in Money Supply M1, M2 and the ShadowStats M3
Jumped to Historic Highs in First Two Weeks of April 2020
Net Headline Inflation in Colonial America and the United States,
1665 to the Opening of the Federal Reserve in 1914 = 8.7%
Headline Inflation in the United States from the Opening of the
Federal Reserve in 1914 to March 2020 = 2,457.6%
Rising Price of Gold Should Foreshadow the Early Stages of a Hyperinflation,
With Current Actual (Not Headline) Annual U.S. Inflation Near 10%
Updated Hyperinflation Outlook in Special Commentary, Issue No. 1445, Will Address
Hyperinflation Risks in the Pandemic Shutdown of the U.S. Economy. The U.S. Federal Reserve has
opted to create unlimited money in an effort to stabilize the Coronavirus Pandemic collapsed U.S.
economy. That circumstance, in the context of, and in conjunction with the U.S. Government embarking
on unlimited deficit spending, is a good bet to drive the United States into a hyperinflationary Great
Depression. The full report on this will be published next week, in Issue No. 1445. Background to the
fully updated Hyperinflation outlook includes Hyperinflation 2014—The End Game Begins (Revised),
No. 614 of April 2, 2014 and Hyperinflation 2014—Second Installment of April 8, 2014
I have been assessing and writing about an eventual hyperinflation crisis and long-range U.S. government
insolvency since at least 2005, when the 2004 Financial Statement of the United States Government was
published, showing a doubling of U.S. unfunded liabilities tied to Medicare. At the time, I was predicting
that the long-term insolvency risks of the United States Treasury would lead to a U.S. hyperinflation
likely around 2018 or 2019. With the banking collapse in 2007-2008, I brought in that time horizon to
2014, which obviously did not pan out.
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The fundamentals for the crisis, however, remain in place and are coalescing once more into an
extraordinary peak. The Fed still is playing out its unresolved and unsuccessful 2008 banking system
bailout, which now clearly has failed. Fed Funds are back at zero, with unlimited, expanded Quantitative
Easing now backing all sorts of new financial instruments, and with the banking system again in serious
trouble. Add in a Federal Government looking to pump multiple trillions of extra dollars into the system,
with the Federal Deficit already running out of control, and this long-festering crisis could come to a head
with little warning. Inflation tends to be monetary, and hyperinflation often occurs with an economic
collapse. Watch the price of gold as a coincident to leading indicator of the unfolding crisis. As seen in
Graph 8, it is actual inflation (such as the ShadowStats Alternate Inflation Measure (Graph 7) not the
heavily gimmicked CPI, with which the price of gold moves and actually tends to anticipate.
The point I have been making with the Gold/Inflation chart (Graph 8) in recent Commentaries indeed is
that gold is the real money, over time, millennia/centuries. Its purchasing power per ounce remains
constant over the long haul, where the paper dollars/currencies—not backed by hard assets—inflate,
always lose their purchasing power. Gold also tends to lead the rising inflation, as seen in the graph.
Accordingly, when I talk of a looming hyper-inflationary depression, my hyper-inflation is in the paper
money, viewed as money by the general public, not in gold (albeit the real money).
Graph 7: ShadowStats Alternate (1980-Base) Annual Inflation versus Headline CPI-U
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Graph 8: Gold versus Actual Inflation
Beware the Federal Reserve!
U.S. Central Bank Has Moved to Unprecedented Extremes To Create Inflation
Depository Institutions No Longer Face Reserve Requirements, While Money Supply Measures Soar to Record Highs. Graph 9 plots the Federal Reserve’s Reserve Requirements for Depository Institutions. Those
Reserve requirements were eliminated at the end of March! Graph 10 plots year-to year change in Money Supply
M1, M2 and the Shadows Ongoing M3 Measure. In the first two weeks of April money growth was at the highest level in history, also reflected in Graphs 11 to 13, where surging money supply growth tends to lead the pace of
inflation. Graphs 14 to 18 show surging indicators for the money supply measures.
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Graph 9: Federal Reserve, Required Reserves of Depository Institutions
Graph 10: Money Supply, Monthly Year-to-Year Growth to March 2020; April 2020 (First Two Weeks)
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Graph 11: Historical M1 Money Supply
Graph 12: Historical M2 Money Supply
Graph 13: Historical M3 Money Supply
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Graph 14: Federal Reserve Monetary Base
Graph 15: Federal Reserve Monetary Base (2000-to-Date), Year-to-Year Change
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Graph 16: Total Assets All Federal Reserve Banks (2000-to-Date)
Graph 17: Total Assets All Federal Reserve Banks (2000-to-Date), Year-to-Year Change
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Updated Financial Markets
Physical Gold and Swiss Franc Continue to Protect U.S. Dollar Purchasing Power
Graph 18: February to April 2020 Financial Markets-to-Date, February 12 DJIA Peak = 100
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