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Last month the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued a surprisingly weak reassessment of second-quarter GDP growth. Previously, the BEA had estimated that real GDP grew at a 1.7 percent growth rate ...

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The current business cycle passed its four-year mark at the end of March. Recently, the economy has been marked by slower growth, and by jaw-dropping trade and budget deficits, which highlight the ...

GDP is the common measure of economic performance. Under ideal conditions, GDP growth implies an overall improvement in the economy’s performance. However, nearly half of GDP is produced in sectors ...

PIMCO chief Bill Gross continues to get buffetted from all sides following a note he posted about how U.S. equity returns have been unsustainably high because they've exceeded GDP growth. Gross said ...

The historical growth in health spending as a share of GDP is well-documented and increasingly well-known, having increased from about 6 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012. We know this share will ...

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 business ...

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China, Russia and other authoritarian countries inflate their official GDP figures by anywhere from 15 to 30 percent in a given year, according to a new analysis of a quarter-century of satellite data ...