Note from dshort: With today's release of the 2012 Q4 GDP Third Estimate, I've spent some time updating my occasional analysis of the government's calculation of "Real" GDP. How do you get from ...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the quantum of economic activities in a country, in monetary terms, over a period of time usually one year. Real GDP eliminates the impact of inflation by ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Cost management strategies tend to focus on lowering expenses in the near term, while cost ...

The rise in inflation comes after a continuous fall in the consumer price index (CPI) for nine months. It was in decline ...

Headline growth for the U.S. economy in 1Q 2019 hit 3.2% quarter-over-quarter while year-over-year growth accelerated +24 basis points to 3.21%. Some interesting math in this most recent print aside, ...

Central bankers are now being urged to use new tools in their fight against deflation. Photo: Zuma Press Central banks in the developed world are using the wrong metric to measure price pressures and ...