Rachel Soloveichik is an economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).  Her current work focuses on capitalizing data and natural resource improvements.  She is also studying the potential GDP and productivity impact of tracking capitalized advertising, “free” digital content, illegal activity, cultivated assets, valuables, unavailable products during coronavirus, and other topics.  In the past, her groundbreaking work on entertainment originals paved the way for BEA to track entertainment originals as capital assets in the nation accounts starting in 2013.  Rachel Soloveichik graduated from the University of Chicago and joined BEA in 2007.  She is now living in Richmond with her husband and ten children.