Country Reports: United States.

UNITED States economy; TWENTY-first century; ECONOMIC history; UNITED States gross domestic product; CONSUMPTION (Economics); EXPORTS; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; UNEMPLOYMENT statistics; CONSUMER price indexes; ECONOMICS

The article discusses economic and political outlook for the U.S. as of May 2015. Topics explored include the contribution of consumption and exports to its real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the foreign policies being implemented by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama toward the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and brief details on its unemployment rate, interest rates and consumer price index.