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BEA on TV and radio: How Consumers are Fairing Across States
Ian Mead and Mark Hamrick talked about two reports from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on U.S. household spending and economic wellbeing through the recession of the late 2000s and the subsequent recovery. They also spoke about the amount consumers spend by state and the quarterly statistics on the economic activity generated by each state.
BEA on TV and radio: How America's Industries Impact the U.S. Economy
Erich Strassner of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and Gregory Ip of The Economist discuss a government report that analyzes gross domestic product (GDP) for 22 industry sectors on a quarterly basis.
BEA on TV and radio: A Look at GDP and Ways to Measure Well-Being
Gross domestic product, the total dollar value of goods and services sold in the U.S., has become fundamental to American economic policy. But there are other essential assets, qualities and conditions that GDP can't measure, like the health of the environment or society. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at another way of measuring progress that takes more of these variables into account.
BEA on TV and radio: New Quarterly Industry Statistics
Beginning April 25, 2014, BEA for the first time will start producing on a regular basis quarterly estimates of economic activity generated by 22 industries.