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BEA Indicators- Outdoor Recreation Economic Statistics, U.S. and States, 2024 March 5, 2026
- GDP (Advance Estimate), 4th Quarter and Year 2025 February 20, 2026
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- Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by State and Real Personal Income by State, 2024 February 19, 2026
- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, December and Annual 2025 February 19, 2026
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BEA Indicators- Outdoor Recreation Economic Statistics, U.S. and States, 2024
- GDP (Advance Estimate), 4th Quarter and Year 2025
- Personal Income and Outlays, December 2025
- Real Personal Consumption Expenditures by State and Real Personal Income by State, 2024
- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, December and Annual 2025
Category Archives: Economic Indicators
Negative Tips Yield Does Not Measure Inflation Expectations
As reported in this Bloomberg News story, the five-year TIPS (the Treasury Inflation-Protected Security due in 2012) yield has been negative since Feb. 29, and traded today at minus 0.17 percent. The notes, which were first sold in 1997, have … Continue reading
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Misleading Trade Report Headlines
(March 11, 2008) – The Department of Commerce released their U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: January 2008 this morning, reporting that total January exports of $148.2 billion and imports of $206.4 billion resulted in a goods and services … Continue reading
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