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 ...

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 ...

The fraudulent number that is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a substantially shrunken number relative to the true size of ...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...

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Real gross domestic product is often a more accurate reflection of the output of an economy than nominal GDP. By eliminating ...

The media and economic communities regularly use Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a tally of all goods and services produced within a country during a specific time period, as a measure of economic ...

US GDP report makes shocking revelations about economy's performance in Q3 as data shows growth reached 4.3 percent. Consumer ...

Discover the economic rankings of U.S. states by GDP and GDP per capita. Learn which states drive growth and how they compare with others economically.

At a glance, first quarter GDP was a flashing red warning light, as the economy contracted at an annualized rate of 0.5%. Under the hood, the details were more encouraging: The decrease reflected ...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final... Can we just change how we measure GDP? There's one ...