The reporting on the revisions to fourth quarter GDP noted that the growth rate was revised up from 5.7 percent to 5.9 percent. However, this increase was attributable to revisions to the rate of inventory accumulation (actually slower de- accumulation). The rate of final demand growth was actually revised down from 2.2 percent to 1.9 percent. This bad news went largely unnoticed.
--Dean Baker
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