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The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis last week released its “advance estimate” of U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2025. GDP measures the total market value of all ...
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 business ...
It is a tenet of Donald Trump’s economic philosophy that trade deficits are bad for growth. It can also seem like a cornerstone of GDP releases. On April 30th the Bureau of Economic Analysis said that ...
Write to Megan Leonhardt at megan.leonhardt@barrons.com Trump Advisers Want to Strip Public Spending from the GDP Tally. Why It Makes No Sense.© Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Howard Lutnick, President ...
Plenty of economic data is headed our way this week, including a couple of important indicators: On Thursday, we’ll get the first revision of gross domestic product for the first quarter of this year ...