There may be an explanation for why the U.S. economy has been remarkably resilient, growing briskly despite high inflation and interest rates. Maybe it isn’t so resilient after all. This week, the ...

Gross domestic product plays an outsize role in how we think of what the American economy creates. It’s what the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis refers to as its “featured measure of production.” ...

Of all the current divides in American society, among the most far-reaching and historically significant is also the least discussed: the gap between the primary measure by which we officially gauge ...

Imports to the U.S. rose 10% in January from December, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Importers brought in a whole lot of electronics, pharmaceutical products and other goods that would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. Wooden blocks with the word GDP and up and down arrows. An ...

In general, price relatives are first computed at the individual item level within each basic heading for each pair of economies being compared. Suppose three economies—A, B, and C—price two kinds of ...

Today was a big day for our economy, as first quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was released, and the headline is very bad: US economic growth declined for the first time since 2022. Expectations ...