Daily briefing · August 26, 2026

Today's Economic Brief

The latest official readings show consumer-price growth at 3.5%, unemployment at 4.1%, annualized real GDP growth at 1.5%. New releases and revisions can change that picture.

What changed

BEA · Aug 26, 2026

GDP (Second Estimate) and Corporate Profits, 2nd Quarter 2026

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 (April, May, and June), according to the second estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). I...

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BEA · Aug 26, 2026

Personal Income and Outlays, July 2026

Personal income increased $115.1 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in July, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less person...

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Federal Reserve · Aug 25, 2026

Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026

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Why it matters

Consumer-price growth is 3.5%, up 0.8 percentage points from Jun 2025.
Unemployment rate is 4.1%, little changed from Jun 2025.
Federal funds rate is 3.63%, down 0.7 percentage points from Aug 2025.

These comparisons describe published observations; they do not assign causes.

What comes next

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