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08.12.14 During the Great Recession, state unemployment insurance systems faced unequal burdens depending on how well their accounts within the federal Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) were funded and how severely [...]

12.02.2011 These days it seems it is just a matter of time until we hear about the next euro zone country whose interest rates on sovereign debt will start soaring. [...]

02.11.14 Real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the BEA's advance estimate. Since growth in the third quarter was [...]

12.09.13 Real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.6 percent in the third quarter of 2013 according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis's second estimate. This is considerably above [...]

06.05.13 The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates that the personal saving rate for the first quarter of 2013 was 2.3 percent--a five-year low, and a substantial drop from the [...]

03.08.2013 Real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis's revised estimate. Although this revision may [...]

12.03.12 While the third-quarter's real GDP growth rate of 2.7 percent was an improvement over the second quarter's 1.3 percent, it may turn out to be the best in a [...]

After hitting a peak sometime in the middle of 2010, the economic recovery seems to have stalled. This observation seems to be true not only of the U.S. economy, but [...]

07.05.11 The U.S. economy continued to exhibit signs of a painfully slow recovery in the last month. In particular, labor markets seem to be front and center in setting the [...]

The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that real GDP grew at an annual equivalent rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, down from a pace of 3.1 [...]

02.03.11 According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis's advance estimate, in the fourth quarter of 2010, GDP increased at an annual equivalent rate of 3.2 percent. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) [...]

11.09.10 The first estimate for GDP and its components in the third quarter of 2010 is out and it is not a very encouraging one, at least as far as [...]

09.10.10 Since the Second World War, real GDP in the United States has grown, on average, at a yearly rate of 3.2 percent. This is what economists call 'trend growth.' [...]

Contributions to Output Growth 2009:Q3-2010:Q1 2001:Q4-2002:Q2 Output 3.66 2.33 Consumption 1.89 2.23 Investment 2.19 -0.31 Net exports -0.38 -0 65 Government expenditures -0.03 1.03 1983:Q1-1983:Q3 1975:Q2-1975:Q4 Output 7.49 5.09 Consumption [...]

08.31.2012 by Pedro Amaral and Margaret Jacobson The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that GDP grew at an annualized rate of 1.7 percent in the second quarter. While this is [...]

06.05.12 The second estimate for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2011 came in at 1.9 percent, a decrease from the previously estimated 2.2 percent. This also represents [...]