Survey of Current Business (SCB)

Government Receipts and Expenditures

Net government saving decreased $37.2 billion to −$2,033.0 billion in the second quarter of 2026. Net federal government saving increased $31.6 billion to −$1,699.3 billion. Net state and local government saving decreased $68.9 billion to −$333.8 billion.

October 15, 2026

Timeliness of BEA's AMNE Statistics

Beginning in 2027, BEA will accelerate its release of activities of multinational enterprise statistics while maintaining high-quality data through survey-processing improvements.

October 14, 2026

The 2026 Annual Update of the National Economic Accounts

Details of the annual update for the National Income and Product Accounts and the Industry Economic Accounts, which incorporated newly available and revised source data as well as improved methods and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

September 30, 2026

Charting the Economy

A quarterly Visual Essay featuring the latest GDP and other statistics from BEA's national, industry, and regional accounts. Get details on how much people are spending and earning, how industries are performing, along with profits, and what's happening with prices across the country.

October 8, 2026

Current GDP release

Updated Summary of NIPA Methodologies

The data and methods used to prepare current-dollar and real gross domestic product and current-dollar gross domestic income, reflecting the 2026 annual update of the National Economic Accounts.

September 30, 2026

Revisions to Personal Income and GDP by State

Study confirms BEA's state estimates of quarterly personal income growth and the growth of major income components have relatively small mean absolute revisions. The results show these estimates are reliable, with revisions in subsequent vintages due to new data and not systematic measurement biases or errors.

September 23, 2026

BEA's Economic Accounts, Part 4

This last article in the four-part Survey of Current Business series examining BEA's world-leading system of accounts discusses how BEA's Regional Economic Accounts deliver relevant, timely, and accurate statistics connecting state and local activity to the national economy.

September 17, 2026

Visual Essay

Direct Investment by Country and Industry

Growth in the outward investment position increased $438.1 billion in 2025 to $7.1 trillion, up 6.5 percent from 2024. The inward investment position increased $266.0 billion to $5.9 trillion, up 4.8 percent.

September 10, 2026

Annual Update of the Regional Economic Accounts

A look at GDP by state, state personal income, and PCE by state statistics and methodology improvements to be introduced as part of the upcoming 2026 update, which marks the first concurrent release of annual updates of BEA’s national, industry, and regional accounts.

August 27, 2026

BEA's Economic Accounts, Part 3

Part three of a four-part series that looks at the world-leading system behind BEA's market-moving statistics. This article introduces BEA's National Economic Accounts and discusses how they deliver relevant, timely, and accurate statistics to track the U.S. economy.

August 26, 2026