
Good News! The Algos Say The US Economy ‘Is Doing Just Fine’
Listen, there's a lot of debate going on right now about late-cycle dynamics.
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It might be BAML’s first attempt but some of us have been succeeding with it for a long time. And the correct LP space weighted metric makes a big difference in executing “nearest neighbors”. Also, I’ll bet BAML is ignoring some of the most important variables….just like in 2007.
FWIW, not every algo is predicting such a long gap before the next recession: https://intensity.com/resources/intensity-recession-forecast-may-1-2018
With such a tiny dataset, kNN is probably going to do as well as any other technique, by which I mean shitty and worthless for trying to extrapolate through a discontinuity.