While imperfect, the metric carries major real-world implications, experts said. The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross ...

As we wait for the second-quarter GDP numbers to come out at the end of this week, the White House is already playing cleanup by letting the public know that the definition of "recession" is fluid and ...

Wikipedia has frozen edits to its page for "recession," halting a frenzy of changes to the entry after the Biden administration insisted that the U.S. economy has not entered a economic downturn. New ...

The Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is the total monetary or market value of all goods and services produced in a country within a specific time period. It is essentially a way to put a number on the ...

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The White House Council of Economic Advisers said on July 21 that even if Friday's advance estimate of the country's GDP is negative, it's still "unlikely" to be indicative that the country is in a ...

America’s GDP fell at a 0.9% annualized rate in the second quarter, a preliminary estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed Thursday morning. The report marks the second straight quarter of ...

A key report Thursday could reveal that the nation’s economic output declined for a second straight month, meeting the informal criteria for a recession. After dropping at an annual rate of 1.6% in ...

An editing battle over its "recession" entry prompted Wikipedia to put a temporarily lock on revisions to prevent new users from repeatedly... What is a recession? Wikipedia can't decide Wikipedia has ...