The dashboard uses data produced each month by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and currently covers January 1999 through March 2016. It details US consumer personal spending on over 200 items, divided into an eight-level hierarchy. The spend is in trillions of USD and is “real spending” in that the BEA normalizes for inflation, growing costs, and other related factors. This dashboard displays publicly available information in a dynamic,interactive way, allowing Treasury to quickly get a feel for consumer spending in the US and where our economy may be heading in the business cycle.