ECONOMIC Indicators
Scott Wallace, Ph.D. Director and Editor, CBEI; Professor of Economics, Sentry School of Business and Economics Mashaal Stanekzai Research Assistant, CBEI
Economic Indicators: Data Challenges Continue Our Economic Indicator section from Fall 2025 report was considerably shorter than usual because government’s shutdown interfered with data collection. While the shutdown is no longer in place, releases for economic measures like gross domestic product and state/local employment measures for Quarter 1 are later this spring, making it impossible for this report to publish them. I will be looking at revising the Economic Indicators section in order to address any future challenges. I apologize for the inconvenience.
National Economic Statistics Table 1 National Output (First Quarter 2026) 2026 First Quarter
% ∆ Yr. Ago
Nominal Gross Domestic Product (in Billions) Real Gross Domestic Product (in Billions)
N/A N/A
N/A N/A
Industrial Production (2017 = 100)
101.8
0.80%
Description: • Nominal Gross Domestic Product (in Billions): The dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a year, using current prices. • Real Gross Domestic Product (in Billions): The dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a year, using prices from a base year (2017) to adjust for inflation. • Industrial Production Index: Measures real output (as a percentage of actual output in 2017) produced in the United States in manufacturing, mining, and electric & gas utilities. Analysis: • The late release of GDP data by the Bureau of Economic Analysis prevented publication in this report. • The Industrial Production measure provides an overview of the performance of the industrial sector of the economy. The measure is based on changes in the volume of output rather than change is the value of output so inflation will not impact this measure.
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