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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

US economic growth rebounded in the second quarter after contracting for the first time in three years to start 2025. Gross domestic product grew at an annualized pace of 3% in the second quarter, ...

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Between the backlogged orders from Christmas, ongoing high demand, and an improving flow of products from around the world, goods flooded into the United States in the ...