Economic Insights – September 2017

Even though it’s still looks “pretty dark,” a few birds are beginning to chirp, and I think I heard a rooster crow in the distance; I believe we can safely conclude that it’s almost “morning in America, again!”

For the first time in nine years, overall real GDP grew at a 3.0 percent annual rate in the second quarter; the first full quarter of the new administration.  And, every major category of GDP, with exception of government purchases, was revised higher as well.

Stronger consumer spending and business investment in.....