It is a tenet of Donald Trump’s economic philosophy that trade deficits are bad for growth. It can also seem like a cornerstone of GDP releases. On April 30th the Bureau of Economic Analysis said that ...

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 ...

A US federal data blackout deepened Thursday as a government shutdown halted the release of third quarter GDP figures, ...

The economy grew at a 3.8% annual rate in the second quarter of this year, an upward revision of five-tenths of a percentage point, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday morning. The ...

The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest ...

The U.S. government's budget deficits are now projected to worsen throughout the next decade when compared with earlier forecasts this year, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Committee for ...

The role of imports in GDP—Gross Domestic Product—confuses many people. The current political discussion about tariffs has triggered some of the misunderstanding. This article aims to help business ...

It will probably take a lot more than hurricanes to blow the U.S. economy off its path of steady growth. That's the expected takeaway from third-quarter gross domestic product figures due Friday.

The general government budget deficit in Romania increased by 7% y/y and reached RON 103 billion (EUR 20 billion) in January-September, according to data published by Gandul.ro.  The deficit-to-GDP ...