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 ...

This week, the Commerce Department announced the U.S. had experienced two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth – meeting a common definition of a recession. But other economic factors ...

After dropping 1.6% during the first quarter of 2022, the GDP fell another 0.9% in the second quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Though the U.S. has met one common definition ...