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The Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Achuthan, whose group has a strong track record of forecasting economic cycles, continues to think we’ve been “tipping into a recession” since September. Achuthan tells CNBC that ECRI sees a “contagion among the forward-looking indicators” that the group looks at to forecast economic movements, though he declined to discuss [...]

Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, which has an exceptional track record of economic forecasting, says the economy is slowing in a cyclical fashion — not just because of short-term, anomalous issues like the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Achuthan tells Bloomberg that he sees growth slowing in the second half of the year, [...]

Economic Cycle Research Institute Managing Director Lakshman Achuthan, whose group has an impressive track record of forecasting economic trends, says global industrial growth is headed for a slowdown. But he doesn’t think another recession is coming. “There’s a downturn in global industrial growth in clear sight,” Achuthan says, according to Investor’s Business Daily. “Commodity price [...]

Lakshman Achuthan, the managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, says a consumer revival is providing a big boost to the economy, and says the recovery is no longer “fragile”. Achuthan, whose group has a solid track record of predicting economic shifts, tells Bloomberg that the economy’s “immune system” is “quite robust” right now, [...]

Lakshman Achuthan, the managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, says recent economic data puts the “nail in the coffin” of the double-dip recession fears, and says he expects a “revival” of growth in the early spring of 2011. In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Achuthan also discusses the employment outlook and the disconnect [...]

Lackshman Achuthan, director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, says the threat of a double-dip recession is over. Achuthan, whose group has an excellent track record of forecasting economic cycles, tells CNBC that ECRI’s leading indicators are now definitively showing that a double-dip is off the table. He says the economy is likely headed for [...]

Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, says he thinks we’re in a “real recovery”, but that the high long-term unemployment rate is part of a structural problem that won’t be cured by the current recovery. Achuthan, whose group has a strong track record of forecasting business cycles, also tells Bloomberg that [...]

The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) has a great track record of calling the beginnings and ends of recessions and expansions. And now, its leading indicators are signaling that, while growth is likely to slow, a new recession is not on the horizon. “The ‘double-dippers’ will still be denied,” Lakshman Achuthan, the group’s managing director, [...]