GDP is the total market value of final goods and services produced within a country's borders during a specified period. Final goods are those purchased by the end user, meaning that GDP excludes ...

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 ...

When it comes to measuring the strength of the economy, one of the most important metrics to watch is the gross domestic product, or GDP. This week, the Commerce Department announced the U.S. had ...

What even is "the economy"? Not too long ago, "the economy," as a thing in itself, wasn't really a common idea that people talked about. What changed that was an effort to measure every economic thing ...

The U.S. economy went into reverse having its worst quarter since Covid. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product stood at an annualized rate of -0.3% in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said ...

For better growth prospects, the percentage of a country’s productive capacity devoted to production type goods and services should be significantly ...

The newest GDP data suggests the U.S. economy is slowing down. Consumers are still spending and companies are still hiring and investing, but it’s not at the same pace as last year. At the same time, ...