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 ...

Economic contractions, troughs, expansions and peaks are unpredictable phases of economic activity referred to as economic business cycles. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total market ...

Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

The US economy shrank by 0.6% during the second quarter of the year, according to the latest gross domestic product estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis released Thursday. That matches the ...

Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Reviewed by Michael J Boyle Key Takeaways The national debt is the total amount of money that a country owes creditors. It represents the sum of past ...

Markets and society experience a state of increased incoherence and apprehension. They are concerned by the climate change challenges (and orange skies), the pandemic developments, the rising social ...

A key report Thursday could reveal that the nation’s economic output declined for a second straight month, meeting the informal criteria for a recession. After dropping at an annual rate of 1.6% in ...

Real gross domestic product declined 0.3 per cent in August and early signs suggest the economy barely managed any growth in the third quarter.