Steady State Growth

See: Steady State Economy. That's how we measure the economy around here. Not so much by size (for many of us, thankfully), but by growth.

And it's not all that exciting of late. In a good year, the U.S. economy grows 4%. In a bad year it's flattish. But those tiny spreads on numbers multiplied by trillions of dollars make all the diff between a happy nation and a sad-faced one.