US Household PulseThe United States economy,
from the household inward
1 series not refreshed · updated Nov 2, 2026 Methodology
CPI 3.7%Unemployment 4.2%30Y mortgage 7.24%Saving 3.8¢ per $1Debt service 11.11%Fed funds 3.88%10Y Treasury 4.94%U.S. debt $40.594TDebt / household $301,162Household pressure 43.2

How fast is the economy growing?

GDP growth

Percent change in real gross domestic product from the previous quarter, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

3.4%
Annualized percent, Q3 2026
−0.5 pts from a year earlier
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Annualized percent
−30.0%−20.0%−10.0%0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%40.0%195019601970198019902000201020203.4%
Shaded: U.S. recessions (NBER)

What this measures

Quarterly growth is reported as an annual rate, so a reading of 2% means the economy grew about half a percent in that quarter. The first estimate is revised twice in the following two months and again in annual updates.

The 2020 values (about −28% and +35%) are real: the pandemic shutdown and reopening, annualized.

Source: BEA via FRED (A191RL1Q225SBEA). Updated automatically when the source publishes. How we handle data · Embed this chart

The household economy, once a month

A short email after each month’s inflation and jobs data: what changed, what it means for a household budget, and nothing else.