11.   Brazil, Spain, South Korea, the Netherlands and Australia all have larger annual economic outputs.

12.   Capacity use is nearing its peak because the growth rate of companies ability to produce has not matched the pace of economic output, the report said.

13.   China and India, among the most successful, have received little assistance relative to their economic output.

14.   Consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic output, has already weakened.

15.   Consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of economic output.

16.   Down the road, future GDP figures may not be as robust as in the past because the Commerce Department is changing the way it monitors economic output.

17.   Economists can tell you factually how tax cuts will affect economic output and how the minimum wage will affect unemployment.

18.   Economists commonly define a recession as two or more consecutive quarters in which the total economic output shrinks.

19.   Economists warned that double-digit unemployment and only moderate wage rises will weigh on consumer spending, which accounts for over half of economic output.

20.   Economic output per person, Robertson said, has shrunk by half.