The macro dashboard: growth, prices, labour, sentiment and housing. Inflation follows a Phillips-curve relationship with unemployment, unemployment follows an Okun relationship with growth, the central bank sets rates on a Taylor rule, and the whole thing runs over Weibull-distributed business cycles.

Every indicator is shown with what it means rather than only what it is — above 50 is expansion for a purchasing-managers index, and a page of numbers that does not say so is a wall of trivia. Rates set here reach company earnings through debt service, so nothing on this page stays on this page.