While imperfect, the metric carries major real-world implications, experts said. The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross ...

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 likely ...

Economic history examines the evolution of economies over time, integrating insights from quantitative data, qualitative narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches. Scholars investigate how ...

Autonomous vehicles could be one of the most productive innovations of all time, impacting global gross domestic product (GDP) by approximately 20% over the next decade. Weighing the potential ...

In an era where trade has become both a political battleground and an economic bellwether, the United States' evolving tariff policy reveals much about our shifting priorities − and what might lie ...

Trump’s presidency from 2017 to early 2020 showed solid economic performance before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global markets. GDP growth averaged 2.67% annually during his first three years, ...

WASHINGTON - The longest economic expansion in U.S. history faltered so much in the summer of 2000 that business output actually contracted for one quarter, the government said Wednesday in releasing ...

Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...

For at least the past half century, most economists have viewed the history of slavery in the United States as morally abhorrent but economically advantageous. The argument has run that allocating ...

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IN RECENT YEARS the British economy has tended to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Growth has been soggy, inflation has been high and living standards have been squeezed. Over the past 15 years ...