The role of imports in GDP—Gross Domestic Product—confuses many people. The current political discussion about tariffs has triggered some of the misunderstanding. This article aims to help ...

Can the U.S. just change how it measures GDP? : Planet Money 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 ...

GDP measures total economic output within a country over a specific period. Investors use GDP to anticipate market shifts and adjust portfolios accordingly. Buying cyclical stocks during GDP ...

The liberal media and their pals on Wall Street are talking about recession, because GDP in the first quarter of 2025 was scored with a slight decline of three-tenths of one percent. And those ...

In fact, the US is so productive that each state's GDP compares to that of another country. Using annual GDP data from 2024 from the International Monetary Fund and the Bureau of Economic Analysis ...

GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product, which is the total monetary value of goods and services produced within a country. GDP serves as a benchmark to gauge the economic performance of a country.

GDP measures all final goods/services produced in a defined area, adjusted for inflation to show real growth. GDP growth rates, especially real GDP annually, are key indicators of economic ...

Real GDP fell in the year's first quarter at an annualized rate of 0.3%. That doesn't mean a recession, but Americans have been worried one will happen this year. The new data shows how the ...

Estimating the GDP of this entire economy — which now stands just shy of $29.2 trillion — is a work in progress. The Bureau of Economic Analysis just gave us its mostly final estimate ...

On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom's office said that the GDP of the state had exceeded that of Japan, making it the fourth largest in the world after the U.S., China, and Germany.