The case of the missing GDP report
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
With the government shutdown delaying the Bureau of Economic Analysis' third quarter GDP estimate, economists turn to Fed models and private analysts. The verdict? The estimates vary but generally indicate that growth was positive, crediting business investment and consumer spending. Also in this episode: What private sector data says about the job market, why homebuyers are still waiting on the sidelines, and how banks are managing commercial real estate amid high office vacancy.
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| 0:16.2 | We are going to operate today in the land of make-believe. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's make-believe we have a way to know what's actually going on in this economy. |
| 0:26.5 | From American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Kai Rizz Dolly Day's Thursday, today, October the 30th. |
| 0:41.9 | Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 0:44.6 | We've got this economic calendar we use around the office. |
| 0:48.1 | Helps us keep track of what kind of data is supposed to be coming out day by day and week by week. |
| 0:53.0 | As you know, since the shutdown started, low, |
| 0:55.6 | these 30 days ago, more releases have been canceled than have actually happened. The two we are |
| 1:01.0 | interested in today, and the absence of which is forcing us into the land of economic data make |
| 1:06.2 | believe are initial claims for unemployment benefits. Mitchell Hartman's going to have that later on in the program. |
| 1:11.6 | Don't sleep on the labor market, am I right? |
| 1:14.7 | But we're going to start with the biggie. |
| 1:17.1 | What was supposed to be an update on economic growth in the third quarter, G, D and P are the initials there. |
| 1:23.9 | Marketplace is Daniel Ackerman is our guide. |
| 1:26.8 | When I called up Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank, he was more than happy to engage in some educated speculation. |
| 1:34.0 | I love the premise for this interview. |
| 1:36.5 | We don't have an economic release. |
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