A Good GDP Tradeoff: Net Exports Up; Government Spending Down

When I look under the hood of GDP reports, the fly in the ointment I usually find is inventories. In the third quarter last year, for example, removing inventory accumulation reduced the headline real GDP number of 4.1 percent to 2.5 percent in final sales. The estimate for real GDP in the fourth quarter also […]



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