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 ...

NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) --The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross domestic product, or GDP. The metric commands attention as ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

GDP is a measure of whether the economy is expanding or contracting. While this factor can’t be taken alone, negative GDP is a strong indicator of a future recession. Investors should develop an ...

As you all know, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an important economic term that is used to represent the final value of goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific period of ...

Gross domestic product plays an outsize role in how we think of what the American economy creates. It’s what the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis refers to as its “featured measure of production.” ...

For many years now, the GDP has been severely criticized as not adequately measuring economic progress and the quality of life. The truth, however, is that the GDP was not designed to measure human ...

Year-over-year, Gross Domestic Product rose by 1.8 percent in the third quarter of 2022, the same as in the second quarter. No recession in sight as far as the GDP numbers are concerned, but there are ...

Between the backlogged orders from Christmas, ongoing high demand, and an improving flow of products from around the world, goods flooded into the United States in the first three months of this year ...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy drew heat last month when he suggested that countries should factor happiness into their statistics for growth. After all, Sarkozy campaigned on promises of wealth ...