Thursday, October 29, 2009

Q3 GDP: Subsidized Consumption Edition

When the going gets tough, the U.S. consumer... consumes.

QoQ GDP Annualized



Consumption as a Percent of GDP



One day perhaps we can consume more than 100% of our economy.... we can only hope.

Source: BEA

5 comments:

  1. Here's an economic chart you might want to link to:

    http://www.worldofwallstreet.us/2009/10/unadjusted-year-over-year-labor-department-initial-jobless-claims-up-96.html

    Hope you find it useful.

    MontyHigh, www.worldofwallstreet.us

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  2. I think the scale of your y-axis is wrong for the gross private domestic investment figure. BEA says inventories contributed + .94, and residential investment contributed + .53 to GDP growth, but your y-axis doesn't go above 0, so this doesn't show up.

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  3. That's why they pay me the big bucks... fixed.

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  4. is this real consumption over nominal GDP, or just the C share?

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  5. real consumption over real GDP

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