Calculate the average growth rate across the ten years selected. How does that growth rate compare to our long run average growth rate of about 3%?
Visit the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web site, www.bea.gov (Links to an external site.), and access the BEA interactively by selecting: Under “Principal Federal Economic Indicators,” select “Gross Domestic Product” and then Select the orange button, “Explore Product View” Scroll down and select “Interactive Data, then GDP and the National Income and Product Account (NIPA) Historical Tables.” […]