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

United States Real 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,	Exports	Imports	Real Gross Domestic Product
	% change
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	-22.2	1.7	-9.4	-13.6	-3.5
2010	1.8	-15.6	8.9	-3.7	0.6	11.1	12.5	2.4
2011	2.5	2.7	11.0	-1.4	-3.1	6.7	4.8	1.8
2012-f	2.0	7.5	5.9	14.4	-1.9	5.2	3.0	1.8
2013-f	3.1	10.8	9.0	12.0	-1.5	8.3	4.3	3.7
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	-3.5	0.91	5.8		41.02
2009	1.46	101.1	-0.3	-11.4	0.55	9.3		74.30
2010	1.32	99.8	1.6	5.4	0.59	9.6		89.04
2011	1.32	100.5	3.1	4.1	0.61	9.0		98.57
2012-f	1.27	100.2	2.1	4.0	0.78	8.0		108.00
2013-f	1.30	99.0	2.8	5.1	0.98	7.2		97.25
*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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