Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, has expressed his intent to exclude government spending from the gross domestic product (GDP) calculations. What Happened: Lutnick argued that government ...

I sometimes read assertions that the statistical methods used by the Commerce Department to calculate GDP no longer properly capture economic output because they don’t, for example, properly account ...

Note: The quarter-on-quarter growth rate refers to the seasonally adjusted growth rate over the previous quarter. Refer to NBS database (http://data.stats.gov.cn) for ...

Note: The quarter-on-quarter growth rate refers to the seasonally adjusted growth rate over the previous quarter. Refer to NBS database (http://data.stats.gov.cn) for ...

GDP measures all final goods/services produced in a defined area, adjusted for inflation to show real growth. GDP growth rates, especially real GDP annually, are key indicators of economic activity ...