[lbo-talk] good news?

[Sean Andrews]

[I don't get how this is so high?  It seems like a huge jump. Is it
because the workers who are employed are becoming extremely
productive? -s]

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following
news release today:

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services
produced by labor and property located in the United States --
increased at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of
2009, (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter),
according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic
Analysis.