5% GDP growth in the third quarter hasn't been revised down - congrats, America!

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A country music fan cools off in the wind on the second day of the Stagecoach country music festival in Indio, California April 26, 2014.

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We did it!

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its second estimate of real GDP growth for the fourth quarter. It was 2.2% on an annualized basis. That's pretty "meh."

The bigger deal, though, is that the BEA's third quarter estimate was unrevised. We're now pretty sure that the economy grew at 5% over the summer. We could be just a hop, skip, and a jump away from boom times.

Congrats!

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