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The economy is doing ever so slightly better than we thought:
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.2% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The agency had previously estimated the second quarter’s growth rate at 4%, relying on incomplete data for international trade, inventories and other sectors.
Nobody should mistake this for anything meaningful. Obviously it’s better for GDP to be revised up than down, but this particular change is so small that it’s not really noticeable. GDP growth for the first half of the year now clocks in at about 2.1 percent instead of 1.9 percent, but that’s pretty anemic either way.
