A close observer of the economy might be tempted to ask, “What is going on?” The stock market continues to do well (subject ...

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.” ...

Take, for example, the fact that after months of dismal jobs numbers and recession predictions, a recent White House press ...

Rising business starts suggest more hiring in the months ahead, which is needed given tepid job gains this year.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the physician-turned-economist François Quesnay devised a quantitative model of the economy, among the first of its kind and a precursor to present-day GDP.

According to economist Mark Zandi, states representing nearly a third of U.S. GDP now find themselves on the brink of a ...

Each week of the ongoing government shutdown could cost the economy $7 billion and reduce GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points ...