J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Gerd ...

The U.S. economy emerged from the pandemic even more quickly than previously reported, revised data from the federal government shows. The Commerce Department on Thursday released updated estimates of ...

Find out how GDP can help measure the health of a country’s economy Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, ...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...

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.” ...

The U.S. economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter of the year, as companies stockpiled imported goods in response to a series of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump. Aside from the surge in ...

When it is growing, especially if inflation is not a problem, workers and businesses are generally better off than when it is not Many professions commonly use abbreviations. To doctors, accountants, ...

Consumption is an always effect of what actually matters: production. It’s a reminder that while “supply siders” are increasingly ridiculous, “supply-side economics” is a statement of the obvious: the ...