Forecasts and Nowcasts

The August Survey of Professional Forecasters is out: Figure 1: GDP (bold black), Survey of Professional Forecasters (blue), GDPNow of 8/14 (light blue square), NY Fed nowcast of 8/14 (red triangle), GS tracking of 8/14 (purple +), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR. Source: BEA 2026Q2 advance, Atlanta Fed, NY Fed, GS, Philadelphia Fed, and author s calculations.