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6 guides in Finabase Learn
- GDP explained: how gross domestic product is measured and read What GDP counts, the C + I + G + NX arithmetic with real 2026 numbers, how annualized growth rates work, why the three estimates get revised, and how markets react.
- Real vs nominal GDP: deflators, chained dollars and why both matter How nominal and real GDP differ, how the GDP price deflator and chained 2017 dollars are built, a worked two-good example, and when to use each measure.
- Seasonal adjustment and data revisions: why the numbers change How agencies remove seasonal patterns, what annualized rates mean, and how GDP and payroll figures get revised, with BEA revision statistics and BLS benchmarks.
- The economic calendar: when US data come out and how to read them When the jobs report, CPI, GDP, retail sales and FOMC decisions are released, who publishes them, and how to read the consensus, actual and prior columns.
- Trade balance: how the US trade deficit is measured and read What the monthly US trade report measures, why imports subtract from GDP, how the deficit links to saving and capital flows, and what 1992–2026 data show.
- What is a recession? How the NBER dates US recessions How the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee decides when US recessions start and end, why “two negative quarters” is not the rule, and what 2001 and 2022 show.
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