GNP Forecast

This research projects the gross national product (GNP) for the United States for the secondhalf of calendar year 1991 and for the complete calendar year 1992. The GNP is, in this research, projected by major componentpersonal consumption expenditures, gross private domestic investment, next exports of goods and services, and government purchases of goods and services.

As of the fourthquarter of calendar year 1990, the American economy entered recession (Council of Economic Advisers, 1991a). Revised GNP data for the secondquarter of calendar 1991 released on 27 August 1991 indicated that the GNP declined 0.1 percent in the AprilJune 1991 quarter (Bureau of Economic Statistics, 1991a). Thus, for three consecutive quarters, the GNP has declined; the longest GNP decline since the fourquarter decline in the first Reagan Administration fourthquarter of calendar year 1981 through the thirdquarter of calendar year 1982 (Council of Economic Advisers, 1984; Council of Economic Advisers, 1991b). The preliminary report of the secondquarter of calendar year 1991 economic performance had indicated that the GNP had grown 0.4 percent during the quarter. That preliminary report caused President Bush and his economic advisers to declare that the recession was over. Declaring the end of the recession also provided the president with an excuse not to trigger the longt

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recent economic performance in the United States, it may be said with some considerable justification that productivity gains have occurred, and that employment levels have increased (although unemployment has increased during the current recession), since the depth of the preceding recession was reached in 1982. There have been all along, however, some troubling aspects to the economy. While employment increased and unemployment declined (until the advent of the current recession), unemployment declined only from the unusually high levels reached in the early years of the first Reagan Administrationnot from the levels of the previous (Carter) administration. With growth in the population and the size of the workforce, there are actually more persons unemployed in 1991 than were unemployed at the end of the Carter Administration's term in office. Employment in the United States, thus, continues to be a major problem. Significant economic growth occurred in the United States during the years of the two Reagan Administrations; however, all is not perfect in this context either. In terms of real GNP, growth was 12 percent from 198O to 1985from a GNP of $3,187.9 billion to a GNP of $3,57O.7 billion (Council of E
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