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

Here's a striking chart, from a 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives article 1520464250646 by Brookings Institution economists Martin Neil Baily and Barry P. Bosworth on the state of manufacturing in ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says our rough winter weather skewed the data on gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the first quarter. GDP grew at just two-tenths of a percent at the ...

While the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported a robust 4.3% annual increase in third-quarter real gross domestic ...

We've had a lot of fun over the last month and a half diving into GDP revisions, where we were the first ones ever to try to use brand new series of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on the ...

In this slowing U.S. economy, it's important to understand why and how economists' adjustments of actual data can produce misleading results. Worse, those adjusted results often are presented as ...

Economic growth at the start of this year is looking soft. However, historical data suggest some of this slowing may simply reflect a statistical anomaly. The U.S. economy expanded at a strong pace in ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's government is considering calculating the country's potential growth rate in addition to the official GDP to show that there is room for the economy to expand ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. No, Social Security payments are not ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. GNP measures the value of goods and services ...