NATO set to commit to five percent defense spending goal amid threats from Trump - ‘I assume that in The Hague we will agree ...

Can the U.S. just change how it measures GDP? : Planet Money 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 ...

But, absent that surge in goods, the latest GDP report could have been even uglier. Trump made no secret of the fact that he was going to announce higher tariffs for all US trading partners as of ...

GDP is a measure of production. It’s calculated by adding up consumer spending, business investment, government spending and the balance of trade, or the difference between exports and imports.

The U.S. just recorded its first quarter of negative GDP growth since 2022. While that estimate was likely skewed negatively by its methodology, including how it accounts for a surge in gold ...

NATO allies have started cobbling together an agreement to significantly boost defense spending in a way that may assuage US President Donald Trump’s demand to spend 5% of economic output on the ...

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 ...

Estimating the GDP of this entire economy — which now stands just shy of $29.2 trillion — is a work in progress. The Bureau of Economic Analysis just gave us its mostly final estimate ...

The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as President Donald Trump's economic agenda took effect, according to new data released on Wednesday. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic ...

"Equity traders will not be happy with the negative GDP headline," Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, said in a research note. "Contracting GDP is not good for company ...

the official report card on the economy, shrank at a 0.3% annual rate from January to March, the government said Wednesday. It’s the first contraction in GDP since early 2022. Back To Top ...