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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.” ...

Economic contractions, troughs, expansions and peaks are unpredictable phases of economic activity referred to as economic business cycles. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total market ...

The gross domestic product (GDP) is a vital measure of a nation's overall economic activity. It's important to understand the GDP's effect on an economy. A rising GDP is a sign of a growing national ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Gerd ...

There may be an explanation for why the U.S. economy has been remarkably resilient, growing briskly despite high inflation and interest rates. Maybe it isn’t so resilient after all. This week, the ...

Consumer spending rose again in September, likely foreshadowing data showing a robust pace of economic growth in the third ...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the physician-turned-economist François Quesnay devised a quantitative model of the economy, among the first of its kind and a precursor to present-day GDP.

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