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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 ...

GDP doesn’t measure what we should care about, say critics. Is that true?

GDP growth is up. Time to celebrate! Then GDP growth is down again. Time to panic? These gyrations aren’t uncommon, and we have just been through one. A few weeks ago, President Biden boasted about ...

The chorus decrying the shortcomings of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of economic well-being has been rising, crescendoing recently with the release of the report by Nobel Laureates Joseph ...

Entrepreneur and presidential candidate Andrew Yang spoke at MSNBC's climate change forum Thursday about how he would change how the GDP is measured to include measurements of health, life expectancy, ...

When the economy recovers, will we be able to accurately measure its health? Not by monitoring the GDP, says Eric Zencey, a professor of historical and political studies at Empire State College, ...

The new series of data not only revises the base year for calculation purposes to 2022-23, it also incorporates several vital changes with an aim to give a more accurate measurement of the size of the ...

A series of comments from Trump officials in recent days raised concerns that the administration may try to look differently at a key economic measure of America's economic health: the quarterly ...

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