U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

GDP Fell 6.1 Percent in Q1

"Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rat...  Read more

Personal Income Increases Steadily in September

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 more

Personal Income Growth Steady in Q3

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 more

Personal Income Up in Second Quarter

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

Growth in Real GDP Slows

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

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 more

Jobless Claims Down as Growth Remains Steady

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

Finding Workers Getting Tougher

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 more

Defense Spending Gives Manufacturing a Boost

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 more

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 more

Garbage In, Gospel Out;

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 more

Energy Costs Impact GDP

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 more

Business Leaders to Measure Innovation

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

Second-quarter GDP Revised Upward

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 more

Will Your Next Big Technology Investment Pay Off?

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

His Pond Runneth Over

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

Affordable Health Insurance, By Another Measure

Last week, I wrote that the very important Kaiser Family Foundation report on health insurance costs (read it Read more

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 more

Service Businesses

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

The New-Economy Almanac

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

The Insider's Guide to Economic Forecasting

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 more

Resources

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

Turning the Tables

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

A Report On The States

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

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 more

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 more

Report On The States

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 more