In the early 1930s, the U.S. Senate enlisted a young economist named Simon Kuznets to figure out how badly the economy had been ravaged by the Great Depression, and whether policies were doing much to ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

Analysis of data from 147 countries has uncovered new insights into the positive relationship between national income and obesity rates. Debabrata Talukdar of the State University of New York at ...

The fast-growing national debt is on pace to reduce the growth in American households' incomes in the decades ahead if the debt isn't stabilized, according to a new report. An analysis by the ...

When economists want to analyze economic performance, they typically examine Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. However, a ...

Representative Ryan contemplates the Fiscal Cliff. (Apologies to Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer above the sea of fog” 1818, Wikipedia free image.) Republicans and Democrats alike tell us, it is ...

In the last few months, there have been talks about rebasing the two important economic indicators, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI). While the GDP calculates the ...