Note from dshort: With today's release of the 2012 Q4 GDP Third Estimate, I've spent some time updating my occasional analysis of the government's calculation of "Real" GDP. How do you get from ...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the quantum of economic activities in a country, in monetary terms, over a period of time usually one year. Real GDP eliminates the impact of inflation by ...

Headline growth for the U.S. economy in 1Q 2019 hit 3.2% quarter-over-quarter while year-over-year growth accelerated +24 basis points to 3.21%. Some interesting math in this most recent print aside, ...

Central bankers are now being urged to use new tools in their fight against deflation. Photo: Zuma Press Central banks in the developed world are using the wrong metric to measure price pressures and ...

India's economy grew a stronger-than-expected 7.8 per cent in the first quarter of FY26, but economists caution that the growth print looks brighter than the underlying reality — thanks largely to a ...

Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, has expressed his intent to exclude government spending from the gross domestic product (GDP) calculations. What Happened: Lutnick argued that government ...