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Using the Permanent Income Hypothesis for Forecasting

By Peter N. Ireland
Economic Quarterly
Winter 1995

Milton Friedman’s permanent income hypothesis implies that data on savings help forecast future income growth. An econometric model that exploits this implication predicts that the U.S. economy will continue to expand in 1995.

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