2008-08-28 US Economic Releases
Posted by WARREN MOSLER on August 28th, 2008
- GDP QoQ Annualized (Released 8:30 EST)
- GDP YoY Annualized (Released 8:30 EST)
- GDP Price Index (Released 8:30 EST)
- GDP ALLX (Released 8:30 EST)
- Personal Consumption (Released 8:30 EST)
- Core PCE QoQ (Released 8:30 EST)
- Personal Consumption ALLX 1 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Personal Consumption ALLX 2 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Initial Jobless Claims (Released 8:30 EST)
- Continuing Jobless Claims (Released 8:30 EST)
- Jobless Claims ALLX (Released 8:30 EST)
GDP QoQ Annualized (2Q P)
| Survey | 2.7% |
| Actual | 3.3% |
| Prior | 1.9% (2Q P); 0.9% (Q1) |
| Revised | n/a |
GDP YoY Annualized (2Q P)
| Survey | n/a |
| Actual | 2.2% |
| Prior | 2.5% |
| Revised | n/a |
GDP Price Index (2Q P)
| Survey | 1.1% |
| Actual | 1.2% |
| Prior | 1.1% |
| Revised | n/a |
GDP ALLX (2Q P)
Personal Consumption (2Q P)
| Survey | 1.6% |
| Actual | 1.7% |
| Prior | 1.5% (2QP); 0.9% (Q1) |
| Revised | n/a |
Core PCE QoQ (2Q P)
| Survey | 2.1% |
| Actual | 2.1% |
| Prior | 2.1% (2Q P); 2.3% (Q1) |
| Revised | n/a |
Personal Consumption ALLX 1 (2Q P)
Personal Consumption ALLX 2 (2Q P)
Initial Jobless Claims (Aug 23)
| Survey | 425K |
| Actual | 425K |
| Prior | 432K |
| Revised | 435K |
Continuing Jobless Claims (Aug 16)
| Survey | 3390K |
| Actual | 3423K |
| Prior | 3362K |
| Revised | 3359K |
Jobless Claims ALLX (Aug 22)
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August 29th, 2008 at 5:12 am
GDP Price Index (2Q P)
Survey 1.1%
Actual 1.2%
Prior 1.1%
Revised n/a
Can you elaborate on this for me please Warren?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
low deflator helped ‘real growth’ be higher.
same thing happened q3 last year.
gdp is first a nominal number- just measures $ transactions. Then the experts decide what the ‘inflation component’ was and arrive at ‘real growth.’
this is one of those measures.