The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the official third-quarter GDP report release, although real-time estimates from ...

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 ...

Learn how GDP measures economic performance and influences financial decisions for economists and investors. Discover its impact on the economy and investment strategies.

The government has been shut down for nearly a month, and the impact is beginning to be felt by the U.S. economy.

The US national debt is now as large as the combined gross domestic product (GDP) of the second to the sixth-largest economies in the world, according to the nonpartisan watchdog Peter G. Peterson ...

Initial GDP estimates rely on incomplete survey data—less than half from actual three-month surveys—with the rest from extrapolations. The Bureau of Economic Analysis refines these estimates at the ...