GDP measures the economic output of a nation, but it overlooks pollution-linked deaths, degraded lands, disappearing biodiversity, and the long-term impacts of climate change on countries.

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 ...

In “Recession Fears May Not Pass GO” (op-ed, Aug. 10), Mark Skousen argues for using gross output, or GO, as a more reliable indicator of economic growth than gross domestic product. I fail to see how ...

Gross domestic product plays an outsize role in how we think of what the American economy creates. It’s what the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis refers to as its “featured measure of production.” ...

Gross domestic product (GDP, a government-produced measure of economic output) is one of the most widely discussed econometrics in financial headlines that Fisher Investments reviews. In our ...

There may be an explanation for why the U.S. economy has been remarkably resilient, growing briskly despite high inflation and interest rates. Maybe it isn’t so resilient after all. This week, the ...

U.S. GDP shrank at an annual rate of 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025, marking the first decline in three years. Experts attribute the contraction to a surge in imports as businesses stocked up ...