The GDP Story: Final Demand Grew Just 0.6 Percent

October 29, 2010

Come on folks, we had the second largest inventory build-up in history. Pull that out and final demand grew at just a 0.6 percent annual rate.

Does anyone thing that inventories will continue to grow at this rate? This means that instead of adding to growth inventories will subtract from an economy that has almost no forward momentum. This is all GDP accounting 101. This should be the headline on the 3rd quarter numbers.

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