RealClearMarkets

A Worthless Number (GDP) Rises Not Due to Growth, But Because It's Worthless

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 ...
Slate

GDP Isn’t Flawed, It’s Just Not That Important

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 ...
Forbes

U.S. Economy Not As Strong As It Appears

The U.S, Bureau of Economic Analysis released its third estimate for December quarter’s GDP growth, coming in at 6.9%. This was an increase from 2.3% in the September quarter but when the large impact ...
The Nation Ng on MSN

Much ado about GDP calculation

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the quantum of economic activities in a country, in monetary terms, over a period of time usually one year. Real GDP eliminates the impact of inflation by ...
Forbes

Effects Of Demonetisation On India's GDP - Difficult To Calculate, We Don't Even Know The Sign

The demonetisation effort being led by PM Modi in India is that idea that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes should be declared no longer legal tender, to be replaced by other notes of different designs and in ...
RealClearMarkets

GDP: A Worthless Number Meets Mindless Economic Policy

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 ...
NBC New York

GDP grew at a 2.3% pace in the fourth quarter, less than expected

U.S. economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services ...
NerdWallet

GDP Rebounded in Q2 — What That Means

Growth in the second quarter of 2025 registered at 3.3%. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you take certain actions on our ...

Q2 GDP Third Estimate: Real GDP At 3.8%, Higher Than Expected

The BEA's third estimate of real gross domestic product showed economic growth increased at an annual rate of 3.8% in Q2 2025 ...
Benzinga.com

Commentary: Does The GDP Matter? Part Trois

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

GDP beats expectations; 'I'm amazed by the American consumer,' economist says

The Bureau of Economic Analysis said the improved second-quarter GDP results are credited to a decrease in imports, which are ...