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- by New Deal democrat The release of revisions to second quarter GDP this morning give us our first look at Gross Domestic Income and...

The above chart shows the quarter to quarter percentage change in GDP and the contribution from investment.  Here we see a somewhat spot...

According to the NBER, the recession ended in June 2009.  The above graph shows the quarterly percentage change in growth since 2009 and ...

Let's review some basic economics.  The GDP equation is C+I+X+G=GDP, where C=consumer spending, I=investment, X=net exports and G=govern...

This post is part of the Bonddad Economic History Project.  The purpose of this is to go back through the US' economic history and see w...

The above chart shows the percentage change in GDP and the contributions made by its various sub-parts.   The data is very revealing, whil...

According to the NBER , the early 1950s expansion lasted from October 1949 to July 1953.  We can clearly see the contraction in the last two...

This post is part of the Bonddad Economic History Project.  Above is a graph of the percentage change in GDP and the contributions of v...

Moving forward from 1950 and into 1951, we'll see the government spending -- in the form of war spending for the Korean War -- can indee...

1950 was a year of incredibly strong growth.  We see percent changes from the preceding quarter of 17.2%, 12.7%, 16.6% and 7.2%.  For the...

The above chart is total GDP adjusted for 2005 dollars.  One of the problems with using chained numbers far away from the data (such as u...

- by New Deal democrat Oil analyst Steven Kopits , along with Prof. James Hamilton, are the two leading experts on how Oil shocks result...

- by New Deal democrat Last week I said that I was re-evaluating my overall view of where the economy was heading for the first time in ...

Let's look at the GDP report from a different angle -- the percentage increase and what each component of GDP added to GDP growth. First...

From CNBC: Consumer spending, which accounts for over over two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, fell at a 1.2 percent rate in the second qu...

Below are four graphs which correlate the year over year percentage change in GDP and the unemployment rate. Notice the year over year perc...

Today I'm going to continue on the GDP theme by looking at investment. Click on all pictures for a larger image. All figures are in 2000...

Let's continue a look at the latest expansion's GDP with an in-depth look at PCEs. Consumers continued to devote a larger percentage...

I'm going to spend today looking at what happened during the last expansion from a GDP perspective. Simply put, I want to see what the ...