It’s the worst GDP report in history—far surpassing last quarter’s dip of 5%, and more than triple the previous worst-ever drop of 10% in 1958.

One also can hope for a world where arguments about measuring GDP (gross domestic product, the sum total of the goods and services produced within a nation) or the inflation rate are rare.

GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History is a fascinating 140-page book that I cannot recommend highly enough. This is simply the best book on GDP that I’ve ever seen.

6) The book motivates the history of how GDP calculations come to be, morphing from a way to figure out taxation capacity in wartime, to a figure that guides the economic policies of bureaucrats ...

Opinion: A GDP history lesson for Sen. Sullivan It takes more than good GDP numbers to make a nation great. By Rich Moniak Sunday, August 4, 2019 7:00am Opinion ...

President Donald Trump wants credit for the "fastest GDP growth in history." Here's a reality check.

That headline is a big promise. But here it is: The economic history of the world going back to Year 1 showing the major powers' share of world GDP, from a research letter written by Michael ...

President Donald Trump is celebrating an eye-popping report on gross domestic product. But is the economy really the “biggest and best”? Here are the facts.

Stocks rallied on Thursday even after the U.S. economy posted its second consecutive quarter of negative growth which technically translates into a recession– historical data shows markets are ...

ASK a dozen economists what Britain’s GDP growth rate will be in three years, and you’ll probably get 12 different answers. Ask the British government what the actual figure was three years ...