Discover why real GDP offers a more accurate picture of economic growth by adjusting for inflation and when nominal GDP might be more useful for short-term analysis.

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 ...

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A country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is a metric that expresses how leveraged a country is by comparing its public debt to its annual economic output. Just like people and businesses, countries often need to ...