Final sales, especially for durable goods, appear to be stalling out. That's not a good sign. If we weren't waiting for the other shoe to drop on housing and the financial markets, this might be regarded as a decent GDP report. But consumption is likely to contract in the current quarter. The question is, how much?
Great chart. If I'm interpreting it right, you can't find total GDP on the chart. Be nice to have a line showing that on the chart. Did you do it in Excel?
Yes, I did in Excel (in a hurry). There probably is a way to put a line showing the actual growth rate--which is the difference between the amount on the positive side and the amount on the negative side. The St. Louis Fed does one of these too.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/net/20071201/netpub.pdf
(go to page 6).
James Hamilton has done something similar without stacking them.
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2007/11/new_gdp_figures.html
I think the stacking (like the St. Louis Fed does) gives it an interesting visualization.