Housing main factor for $239 billion in missing economic output

Screen Shot 2014-08-04 at 8.42.22 AMBy Neil Irwin | The New York Times

The economy keeps underperforming. Yes, new G.D.P. data last week were better than expected. But the United States is still producing around $800 billion a year less in goods and services than it would if it the economy were at full health, and as a result millions of people aren’t working who would be if conditions were better.

But why? Where is this gap coming from? To get at an answer, we needed a more basic question: What would the economy look like right now if it were fully healthy, and how is the actual reality of the economy right now different from that?

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