The final goods or services used to compute GDP (Gross Domestic Product) are those that are purchased by the end user and not ...

I sometimes read assertions that the statistical methods used by the Commerce Department to calculate GDP no longer properly capture economic output because they don’t, for example, properly account ...

GDP is a worthless calculation. It goes down as imports increase, it goes up as government spending does, and it increases not due to productivity, but if production of any kind has happened. In other ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated that governments have historically "messed" with GDP calculations, and added that he plans to separate the two and make the process more transparent. AFP ...

Gross domestic product, a measure of the total value of the nation’s economic output over a time period, always has been among the broadest measures of economic perform-ance. But, as noted in a series ...

There's a little bit of confusion over India's GDP growth statistics at present. The country recently changed the way that it calculates this number and while there are, obviously, the usual teething ...

China has revised the way it measures the size of its economy, the first such change since 2002, in what it says is an effort to better align its data with international standards. The adjusted ...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a worthless number. The previous truth isn’t a defense of Donald Trump after the 0.3% Q1 GDP decline. Instead, it’s a defense of reason that requires the reasonable to ...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical ...

For the first time, Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) will be included in GDP, addressing a long-standing gap in coverage ...