June 2, 2011 updated
How do you get from Nominal GDP to Real GDP? The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) uses its own GDP Deflator for this purpose. In a recent commentary Rick Davis, the founder of Consumer Metrics Institute, made some interestin…
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Will the "Real" GDP Please Stand Up?
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June 2, 2011
Following the second update of Q1 GDP, which came in unchanged at 1.8, Rick Davis, the founder of Consumer Metrics Institute, posted an analysis of the update that included an interesting observation on the BEA technique for calculati…
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Two Measures of Inflation with a Footnote on Gasoline
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May 15, 2011
Note from dshort: I’ve now update the charts below with the latest Consumer Price Index data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The annualized rate of change is calculated to two decimal places for more precision in the side-by-side …
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Retail Sales: The "Real" Story
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May 13, 2011
I delayed my commentary on the latest Retail Sales Report until today because my focus is on “real” (inflation-adjusted) and population-adjusted retail sales data. Now that we have the April CPI report, let’s analyze the numbers.
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Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index: See-Saw Performance Persists
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May 11, 2011
The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI), a measure of the economy based on diesel fuel consumption, was released earlier today (download PDF report). The index posted its 17th straight month of year-over-year growth, but the se…
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Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index: See-Saw Performance Persists
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May 11, 2011
The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI), a measure of the economy based on diesel fuel consumption, was released earlier today (PDF file). The index posted its 17th straight month of year-over-year growth, but the see-saw econo…
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Personal Consumption Expenditures for March
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April 29, 2011
The March Personal Income and Outlays report was published today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The chart below shows the monthly year-over year change in the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index since 2000. I’ve a…
