Twelve Key Economic Indicators

1. Analyze the current economic situation in the U.S. as compared to five (5) years ago. Include interest rates, inflation, and unemployment in your analysis.

The United States is the leading economy across the globe and experienced several tribulations in the recent past following the 2008 global recession. Despite these recent challenges, there are expectations among policymakers and financial experts that the country will experience solid economic growth. Actually, financial analysts have stated that the U.S. economy will be characterized by increased consumer spending, increased investments by businesses, reduced rate of unemployment, and reduction in government cut. Some analysts have also stated that the country’s economy will strengthen in 2014 with an average of 2.7 percent or more. However, these predictions can only be understood through an analysis of the current macroeconomic

From December 2007 to June 2009 the United States economy was confronted with its greatest challenge since the Great Depression. The financial crisis was so great that it was coined the term the Great Recession. Many factors contributed to the collapse of the U.S economy; such as, the financial crisis (2007–08), U.S. subprime mortgage crisis (2007–09), a shrinking Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate and unpresented unemployment rates. A recent (2016) article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Post-Recession Rethink: Growth Potential Dimmed Before Downturn” examines the economic aftermath of the Great Recession.

As the economy slowly improves, in the fourth quarter of 2013, the US GDP was at an increase of 4.1% (Kurtz). Although it has not fully recovered from the Great Recession, the economy has been on the upward trajectory. Home prices have increased significantly over the past two years

Americans have been bombarded by new worries in recent days with the war in Libya, unrest in much of the Middle East, and the seemingly endless series of catastrophes in Japan as reported by a recent Gallup poll measuring economic confidence. Added to that, there is a weak job market, increasing fuel prices, and fierce budget battles in Congress, obviously, it is clear the U.S. economy still faces

The US economy has recovered considerably from the great financial crisis of 2008. We are currently in the seventh year of expansion, and the overall performance of the economy has been satisfactory. Most economic indicators have improved dramatically, and some of them are at the best level since then. A significant recovery in home prices, GDP, labor market, stock markets, auto sales, and consumer spending have fostered the economic growth and restored the confidence of market participants.

The American economy has suffered the deepest and most protracted recession since the Great Depression. The financial crisis that began in the fall of 2008 had enduring effects on economic performance. In the first quarter of 2009, real gross domestic product (real GDP) fell by 6.4 percent. Real GDP fell for four straight quarters, from third quarter 2008 through second quarter 2009. The good news is that we have enjoyed more than three years of uninterrupted economic growth (Real GDP) and falling unemployment since the recession ended in June 2009. Economic growth (real GDP) has averaged less than 2.1% since the recovery began July 2009 and is have slowed to less than 1% in the

Over the course of Americas 239 years of existence it has had so many different ups and downs in its economic center ranging from the highest of its ups in the roaring twenties to one of its lowest lows in the recent great recession. It impossible to be able to completely guess what the united states economy is going to do next but with the help of a few monitors we are able to estimate where America is at this time and make as good of a guess on where it is going than ever before. With these tools we can see that the United States is on a steady incline shown through the improvements in the Gross Domestic Profit, low inflation, the rising labor market along with the Manufacturing & Trade Inventories & Sales tool.

There are three general types of indicators: Leading, Coincident, and Lagging. Leading indicators signal future events. Things such as stock market return are a leading indicator. The stock market usually decline before the entire economy declines and vice versa. The coincident indicator changes at the same time of the economy. Personal income is an example of a coincident indicator. High personal income will coincide with a strong economy. The lagging indicator is used to confirm that a pattern is occurring or about to occur throughout the economy. Unemployment is a lagging indicator. When the unemployment rate is rising, the economy is doing poorly. While the Bank of Canada is unable to control the money supply directly because of the changing demand by private banks, the Bank of Canada can indirectly influence the money supply by altering interest rates or the level of banking reserves. By using current economic indicators and a prediction of Canada’s economic future, I will develop an appropriate monetary policy proposal to help expand Canada’s economy.

According to the data included in the quarterly GDP growth chart, the U.S. had experienced growth in real GDP during the previous 13 quarters, with the last reduction occurring during the second quarter of 2009, during the height of housing

To fulfill this purpose, America's Blueprint: Great Recession 2.0 analyzes the cross-sector macroeconomic drivers and challenges of the changing global economic landscape the United States faces today. For the past sixty-five years, the United States rejected numerous opportunities to take corrective actions to prevent what we call the Great Recession 2.0. Our analysis indicates the United States and the global economy as a whole will face trying times as early as the third-week of September

"The first "decline" of the U.S. economy occurred" (Dezhao, 2006) back in the 1930s during the capitalist world 's great economic depression. The second "fall" took place in the 1970s and 80s, the time which the international competitiveness of U.S. commodities and capital decreased significantly. The third "decline" occurred late 2000 ', the recent financial crisis 2008/9. The reasons and results of the three "falls" are very different. Following the first two "declines", the United States made efforts to alleviate the declines through reform and innovation. There is a lot of uncertainties whether the U.S. economy would be able to ‘recover ' this time.

America’s short term economic future could be in for a series of roller coaster peaks and troughs. There are 3 major factors to take into consideration over the next 18 months that could severely impact the economic

Over the last several years, the United States economy has experienced steady growth. While growth has been slow, it is evident that the American economy is making positive improvements.

The first and formost the US is declining economicly as compared to other growing market economy contries China, Japan, and Europ and developing countries.