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Below is a summary of Econosystems' latest economic forecast for the United States:

United States Gross Domestic Product by Expenditure Type
Percent Change from Prior Year - Historical and Econosystems Forecast
	Personal Consumption Expenditures	Nonresidential Structures	Nonresidential Equipment and Software	Residential Investment	Government Consumption Expenditures & Gross Investment, % change	Exports	Imports	Real Gross Domestic Product



2007	2.3	14.1	3.3	-18.7	1.3	9.3	2.4	1.9
2008	-0.6	6.4	-4.3	-23.9	2.6	6.1	-2.7	-0.3
2009	-1.9	-21.2	-16.0	-22.2	1.7	-9.4	-13.6	-3.5
2010	2.0	-15.8	14.6	-4.3	0.7	11.3	12.5	3.0
2011-f	2.3	8.0	9.1	-2.0	-1.9	6.5	5.0	1.7
2012-f	2.4	10.5	10.0	10.0	0.4	7.9	6.9	2.5
Selected Economic Indicators, Historical and Econosystems Forecast
	US $ per Euro	Value of the US$, FRB Broad Index*	Consumer Price Index, annual average	Industrial Production	Housing Starts	Civilian Unemployment Rate		Oil Prices, West Texas Intermediate Dec. avg.



	Dec. average		% change from prior yr.		Millions	Percent		$ per barrel
2007	1.46	99.5	2.9	2.6	1.36	4.6		91.73
2008	1.35	108.5	3.8	-3.7	0.91	5.8		41.02
2009	1.46	101.1	-0.3	-11.2	0.55	9.3		74.30
2010	1.32	99.8	1.7	5.3	0.59	9.6		89.04
2011-f	1.35	100.3	3.9	3.3	0.57	9.1		85.95
2012-f	1.37	96.5	2.7	1.9	0.65	8.6		95.00
*January 1997=100. A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners. For a list of the 26 countries included in the broad index see table 3 of "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf

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