![]() Economists estimate that the Fed has to cut interest rates about 350 basis points (3.5%) to offset the effects of a recession and stimulate a return to growth. The entire world seems headed in the same direction. Japan has been in depression for over 25 years the U.S. has been in a depression since 2007 (defined as persistent below-trend growth). If the Fed cannot cut rates enough to get the economy out of recession, it could become a permanent depression, as happened in Japan. economy may be in recession before the Fed can normalize interest rates. The Fed needs to raise interest rates so they can cut them when recession hits. The fourth constraint on the Fed is their desperate race against time. out of its flat-line growth trend this year. That won’t happen until February 2017 at the earliest. They need to see which parties control the House and Senate and then try to achieve some consensus on a new spending program. has to get past the presidential election. Unfortunately for the Fed, there’s almost no possibility of helicopter money this year. The debt would stay buried on the Fed’s balance sheet possibly forever if “perpetual” bonds were used. Then the Fed would buy the bonds with printed money and promise never to sell the bonds. ![]() The Treasury would finance the deficits by issuing more bonds. The Fed might be able to cause some inflation if they could employ “helicopter money.” The use of helicopter money requires cooperation among the White House, Congress and the Fed.īasically, the White House and Congress would agree on massive spending programs and larger deficits. ![]() The third constraint on the Fed is political gridlock. That’s not enough to sustain deficits of over 3%. With 1.5% inflation and 1.23% real growth, nominal growth is still only 2.73%. The problem is that inflation is not 2% (what the Fed wants). Since debt is repaid with nominal, not real, dollars, then 4% nominal growth is enough to make debt sustainable even if deficits are 3% per year. For example, if real growth is 2% and inflation is 2%, then nominal growth is 4%. Nominal growth is what you get when you add inflation to real growth. Making the debt burden sustainable is not about real growth it’s about nominal growth. debt problem because it would lower the real cost of the debt. (Inflation is not a good deal for you, but the Fed doesn’t care about you. That’s important because the Fed’s government debt problems could be solved with some inflation. But there are powerful deflationary forces arising from demographics, debt, deleveraging and technology. economy is not yet in outright deflation. The second constraint on the Fed is a persistent deflationary tendency. economy has flat-lined at a level that cannot sustain our deficit spending. Deficits are still running over 3% per year and set to skyrocket as baby boomers retire and claim Social Security and Medicare benefits. Finally, there is a trend, and it’s not a good one.Īnnualized real growth for the past four quarters has been 2.0%, 0.9%, 0.8% and 1.2%, for average growth of 1.23%. We have not seen persistent growth or a definite trend - until now. Quarterly GDP figures have been volatile over the past three years, with annualized real growth as high as 5% in the third quarter of 2014 and as low as minus 1.2% in the first quarter of 2014. The first and most important constraint on Fed policy is that the U.S. Let’s look at some of the constraints on Yellen - and the possible “tricks” she might use to escape. dollar and a possible sovereign debt crisis for the United States. Yellen and the Fed face as many constraints as Harry Houdini in trying to escape a potential collapse of confidence in the U.S. Investors who see this coming stand to make spectacular gains. Yellen’s only escape is to trash the dollar. Yet there is one way for Yellen and the Fed to break free of their economic handcuffs, at least in the short run. Yellen is handcuffed by weak growth, persistent deflationary trends, political gridlock and eight years of market manipulation from which there appears to be no escape. Now Janet Yellen will try to become the greatest escape artist of the 21st century. He escaped from specially made handcuffs, underwater trunks and once escaped from being buried alive. Harry Houdini was the greatest escape artist of the 20th century.
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Our incredibly talented staff of dance teachers were instrumental in developing the vision for the studio and the Synergy Dance Teams. Gain new skills in dance leadership teamwork and stage presence. Welcome to Synergy Dance Academy of Madison Wisconsin. Use the links in the table below to register for a class. A focus on technical feedback with class presentations. We opened our doors in the summer of 2012 at 549 Zor Shrine Place.īeginner intermediate and advanced placement options for boys and girls. Synergy dance academy staff Monday MaEdit. Synergy is a wonderful competition with fun awards excellent judging and held at a fantastic venue. Our dance classes are ideal for learning basic techniques and getting comfortable with the fundamentals of specific dance styles. Staff She has trained in the styles of ballet tap jazz hip-hop lyrical contemporary pointe dance team and Bollywood. B-boying is typically danced to hip-hop and funk-music. I/we are over 18 year of age and read & understand the studio policies and agree to comply with and abide by all Synergy Dance Academy policies.Synergy family members including parents dancers and staff are creative inspired disciplined and self-aware while willing to work as a team. I hereby give permission for images and videos of my child/dancer, captured during classes, rehearsals, shows, competition, conventions, meetings, mixers and every studio assembly through video, photo and digital camera to be used solely for the purposes of synergy dance academy promotional material and publications including social media and waive any rights of compensation or ownership thereto. I/We have read this release and understand and agree that by this release I/We accept complete and total responsibility for any injuries and costs of injuries to ourselves, our children, or anyone in our charge. 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Range: ~1.18e-38 … ~3.40e38 with 3 significant decimal digits. BFLOAT16 solves this, providing dynamic range identical to that of FP32. The original IEEE FP16 was not designed with deep learning applications in mind, its dynamic range is too narrow. The name flows from “Google Brain”, which is an artificial intelligence research group at Google where the idea for this format was conceived. “Half Precision” 16-bit Floating Point ArithmeticĪnother 16-bit format originally developed by Google is called “ Brain Floating Point Format”, or “bfloat16” for short.Half-Precision Floating-Point, Visualized.Right now well-supported on modern GPUs, e.g. Was poorly supported on older gaming GPUs (with 1/64 performance of FP32, see the post on GPUs for more details).Not supported in x86 CPUs (as a distinct type).Supported in TensorFlow (as tf.float16)/ PyTorch (as torch.float16 or torch.half).Otherwise, can be used with special libraries. 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Among recent GPUs with unrestricted FP64 support are GP100/102/104 in Tesla P100/P40/P4 and Quadro GP100, GV100 in Tesla V100/Quadro GV100/Titan V and GA100 in recently announced A100 (interestingly, the new Ampere architecture has 3rd generation tensor cores with FP64 support, the A100 Tensor Core now includes new IEEE-compliant FP64 processing that delivers 2.5x the FP64 performance of V100).Most GPUs, especially gaming ones including RTX series, have severely limited FP64 performance (usually 1/32 of FP32 performance instead of 1/2, see the post on GPUs for more details).Supported in TensorFlow (as tf.float64)/ PyTorch (as torch.float64 or torch.double).On most C/C++ systems represents the double type.The format is used for scientific computations with rather strong precision requirements.This is a very good leap for Nvidia.Range: ~2.23e-308 … ~1.80e308 with full 15–17 decimal digits precision. It comes with Deep learning software pre-installed. 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