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 ...

Gross domestic product, a measure of the total value of the nation’s economic output over a time period, always has been among the broadest measures of economic perform-ance. But, as noted in a series ...

There's a little bit of confusion over India's GDP growth statistics at present. The country recently changed the way that it calculates this number and while there are, obviously, the usual teething ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated that governments have historically "messed" with GDP calculations, and added that he plans to separate the two and make the process more transparent. AFP ...

However, over the past several years some of the highest-profile economic aggregates have become more misleading than ever, ...