re: Deja vu.
"I tried to find info on the growth rate of the US economy for the past few decades but couldn't come up with anything."
Googling: US GDP growth + graphs + 1990
I got:
http://www.centrists.org/images/charts_and_graphs/annual_realgdp.html
from:
http://www.centrists.org/issue_summaries/econ_charts.html