Atlanta Fed GDPNow model goes from obscurity to super-stardom.
Forecast a first estimate of GDP correctly once, and suddenly your estimates are Tier 1 economic data.
Updates to the model are now officially on economic calendars.
It's like when Meredith Whitney predicted Citigroup would cut its dividend. For two years after, every time she spoke, stocks moved on her comments. Just now, I had to Google 'Citi dividend woman' to remember her name (and it turns out her hedge fund blew up last year).
