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• T100 regional firms still going strong

  - 2008-04-01

  The nation’s Top 100 regional firms reflected continued strong economic growth during 2007, despite signs of an economic downturn just before year’s end. Nationwide, Top 100 Firm revenue grew at a combined rate of 11.31 percent, just slightly above the previous year’s 11.09 percent. Consumer spending on...

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• Updated summary of NIPA methodologies

  - 2007-11-01

  The Bureau of Economic Analysis BEA has recently improved its estimates of current-dollar gross domestic product GDP, current-dollar gross domestic income GDI, and real GDP as part of the 2007 annual revision of the national income and product accounts NIPAs. (1) The sources of data and methodologies that are now...

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• Ready for the gold watch.(MILESTONE)

  - 2007-01-01

  If it weren't for a knee injury, Tom Barrett might have never worked for Earnest Machine Products Co. But now, 50 years after he joined the Parma-based seller and distributor of bolts, nuts, screws and 35,000 other fasteners, his entire adult life has...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, job, SALES, U.S. Department of Labor

• HOMEPAGE: A LOOK AHEAD...TEN YEARS AGO...QUESTION OF THE WEEK.

  - 2006-01-02

  A LOOK AHEAD Retailers will release December same-store sales on Jan. 5. Helen of Troy will report its third-quarter earnings on Jan. 9. Advance monthly retail sales for December will be released by the U.S. Commerce Department's...

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Retail, SALES, U.S., U.S. Department of Labor

• Updated summary NIPA methodologies - national income and product accounts, 1997

  - 1997-09-01

  THIS REPORT PRESENTS summary descriptions of the principal source data and estimating methods used to prepare the current-dollar estimates of gross domestic product GDP and the estimates of real GDP.(1) These descriptions have been updated to reflect the methodological improvements that were introduced in the annual revision of the national...

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• Productivity trends in two retail trade industries, 1987-95 - miscellaneous general merchandise stores; catalog and mail-order houses

  - 1997-07-01

  Productivity rose in two rapidly expanding industries: miscellaneous general merchandise stores--which include warehouse clubs--and catalog and mail-order houses The retail sector of the economy continues to be an important provider of jobs, accounting for 29 percent of employment in the private service-producing sector of the economy in 1995....

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, mail-order, Productivity, SALES, Strategy, Washington Post Co.

• Personal consumer durables - 1991 U.S. Industrial Outlook

  - 1991-01-01

  Personal Consumer Durables Shipments of selected personal consumer durables are expected to decline 3.5 percent in 1991 in constant dollars, following a decline of 3.0 percent in 1990. Only shipments of motorcycles and bicycles, boosted by exports, are expected to increase in 1991, as shipments of the jewelry; dolls,...

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