[Wyatt's Torch]

You wouldn’t see it on the chart. You would have to do the math from the underlying data :-)

And actually I just held Texas flat YOY. If I removed Texas alltogether from the data in both years GDP increases by 1.7% versus the 1.8% for all 50 states.

[Star Traveler]

Interesting ...

[Swordmaker]

And actually I just held Texas flat YOY. If I removed Texas alltogether from the data in both years GDP increases by 1.7% versus the 1.8% for all 50 states.

As an Economist, my problem all charts such as these is the data comes from the government. . . and it is suspect, extremely suspect. They claim that we are in a recovery but i simply do not see it. They discount data in Texas and build up data in the socialist leaning states to make them look better. The data has been not just massaged, it has been MUGGED!