How do you get from Nominal GDP to Real GDP? You subtract inflation. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) uses its own GDP deflator for this purpose, which is somewhat different from the BEA's ...

How do you get from Nominal GDP to Real GDP? The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) uses its own GDP Deflator for this purpose. In a recent commentary Rick Davis, the founder of Consumer Metrics ...

Does the GDP growth for the first quarter of 2025-26 present the correct picture? The real GDP growth for the June quarter of 2025-26, at 7.8 per cent, came as a surprise to most analysts, who had ...

I wrote here a few weeks ago about the oddly opaque manner in which the government figures out what inflation-adjusted GDP growth in the UK is. It doesn't use the RPI or the CPI as a representative of ...

The reading assumes significance as the market is closely watching for signs of the economy’s ability to absorb the coming pressure from the 50% US tariffs that kicked in last week India’s ...

Note from dshort: With today's release of the 2012 Q4 GDP Third Estimate, I've spent some time updating my occasional analysis of the government's calculation of "Real" GDP. How do you get from ...