Comment: The growth in May and June was so strong that even a repetition of the almost non-existent July growth rate in August and September will guarantee 2017Q2 a 1.6% annualized growth rate over 2017Q1. However,  there was a 0.1% decline in real GDP per capita in July. If real GDP didn’t grow any faster in August than it did in July then there would have been  a decline in real output per capita from June to August  exceeding 0.2%.