Last week I wrote about the GDP predictions from Kalshi and the GDPNow Model. They were both showing 2.4% for Q2 of 2025 last week. They both changed slightly by yesterday, up to 2.8% and 2.9%. The final result (technically, the “advanced” result, but the final one for purposes of this comparison) was 2.97%. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow model continues to be a top performer, and you can’t do much better than averaging these two estimates. And you can pretty consistently do better than the median result from the WSJ/Dow Jones survey of economists.
Here’s the updated table:
