U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis


Personal Income Increases Steadily in September

Oct 31, 2006

Oct. 31, 2006 -- Personal income across the country rose by $53 billion, or 0.5 percent, in September, the Bureau of Economic Analysis re...  Read story

Personal Income Growth Steady in Q3

Dec 20, 2006

Dec. 20, 2006 -- Personal income in the United States grew 1.4 percent in the third quarter of 2006, according to a release today from th...  Read story

Personal Income Up in Second Quarter

By Angus Loten |  Sep 28, 2005

Sept. 28, 2005 --Strong earnings in real estate, professional services, and other entrepreneurial sectors helped jumpstart personal income...  Read story

Growth in Real GDP Slows

Dec 22, 2006

Dec. 22, 2006 -- The real Gross Domestic Product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property -- increased at an an...  Read story

Budget Deficit

The phrase, "budget deficit," is normally applied to situations where, at the end of a calendar or fiscal year, a public entity turns out to have spent mo...  Read story

Jobless Claims Down as Growth Remains Steady

By Angus Loten |  Sep 29, 2005

Sept. 29, 2005 --Jobless claims fell last week after a surge in hurricane-related applications, the Department of Labor reported Thursday,...  Read story

Finding Workers Getting Tougher

By Daniel Del'Re |  Aug 29, 2005

August 29, 2005 On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that initial jobless claims fell by 4,000 the previous week, data tha...  Read story

Defense Spending Gives Manufacturing a Boost

By Darren Dahl

May 11,2004 -- As the bill for the war in Iraq mounts, long dormant industries like textile and apparel manufacturing have sprung to life...  Read story

Budget Surplus

When a governmental entity has revenues from taxes, fees, and other impositions which exceed its budgeted outlays, it is said to have a budget surplus. Wh...  Read story

Garbage In, Gospel Out;

By JAY FINEGAN |  Apr 1, 1988

Last October 14th, with gloom gathering like a thunderhead over Wall Street, the government reported the trade deficit for August -- an abysmal $15.7 bill...  Read story

Energy Costs Impact GDP

By Jonathan Steiman |  Apr 29, 2005

April 29, 2005 --The economy slowed in the first quarter of 2005 as higher energy prices sapped consumer spending and a surge of imports m...  Read story

Second-quarter GDP Revised Upward

By Michael Aneiro

Sept. 29, 2004 --The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 3.3% in the second quarter of 2004, an increase from earlier estimates but still the l...  Read story

Business Leaders to Measure Innovation

By Alexandra Zendrian |  Jan 31, 2008

A federal and private-sector partnership seeks to gauge the impact of innovation on the U.S. economy.  Read story

Will Your Next Big Technology Investment Pay Off?

By Joshua D. Macht |  Mar 15, 1995

Business owners and computer-industry experts tell readers what technology they plan to buy, and why.  Read story

His Pond Runneth Over

Jan 1, 2004

The pond guy, the dog lady, and more.  Read story

Discretionary Income

Discretionary income is a widely used but imprecise definition of that portion of personal income not spent on actual or perceived necessities. Thus discr...  Read story

Looking Eastward, inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

By Sara Hottman |  Sep 15, 2008

China and India are two of the world's leading developing economies, both maintaining rapid GDP growth for the past few years. National prosperity has cre...  Read story

Service Businesses

INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION Industries are broadly classified as goods-producing and services-producing, but in the gradual evolution of industrial...  Read story

The New-Economy Almanac

By Elyse M. Friedman |  May 15, 1997

A statistical and informational snapshot of today's businesses and how they are operating in the new economy.  Read story

The Insider's Guide to Economic Forecasting

By Gene Sperling |  Aug 1, 2003

Or, How to Get Ahead of the Competition by Becoming Your Own Economist. A well-known economist pulls back the curtain on the indicators he a...  Read story

Resources

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1997

A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997.  Read story

Turning the Tables

By Alison Stein Wellner |  May 1, 2006

The outsourcing trend almost killed Kalexsyn--until its founders made globalization work in their favor.  Read story

A Report On The States

By Bruce G. Posner |  Oct 1, 1982

INC.'s second annual study rates 50 small business climates.  Read story

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry coding system designed to facilitate the collection, analysis, and presentation o...  Read story

Report On The States

By Bruce G. Posner |  Oct 1, 1983

The year 1983 has been a hard one to quantify. Soaring deficits, rampant unemployment, and bare-knuckled competition for new industry have taxed the resource...  Read story

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By Nell Margolis |  Oct 1, 1985

Ever since INC. first started doing the annual Report on the States in 1981, our purpose has been less to rank the 50 states than to aid businesspeople an...  Read story

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