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Weekly Commentary

May 14th, 2013

Listening to the Leaders

Leading Indicators Continue to Point to Slow Economic
Growth, but no Recession
 

The April Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI), due out on Friday,
May 17, 2013, caps off a busy week for economic reports in the United
States. This week includes reports on:  read more here....


May 7th, 2013

Clearing Up Confusion on Common Queries

In this week’s commentary we attempt to clear up some of the confusion
around some of the most common questions we encounter regularly, including: read more here....


April 30th, 2013

The ABCs of GDP

GDP = C + I + G + (X-M)

College freshmen know it — or should know it — by the end of their
Economics 101 classes, but for most of us, freshman year in college
remains a bit “fuzzy” for a variety of reasons. On Friday, April 26, 2013, the
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce
released the first estimate of gross domestic product read more here....