China's economy is expected to have slowed down in the second quarter from a solid start to the year as trade tensions with ...

The interactive graph above gives us a look at quarterly percentage changes in real GDP over the past decade or so -- the numbers preceding today's report.

All the surveys show growth, but at a much slower pace than what we were seeing mid-summer. The chart at the top of this blog is the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow estimate for Q3 real GDP growth.

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

NATO allies have reportedly agreed to hike their defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. One chart shows what a big ask that is.

A stunning chart that shows the entire economic history of the world's most powerful countries over the past 2,000 years has been released by investment bank JP Morgan.

Chart: Our Shrinking Economy : Planet Money When economists talk about negative 6.2 percent growth, this is the picture they're painting.

As noted in the chart above, sales/revenues rise faster than GDP during an expansion, and collapse during a contraction (wholesale trade fell 20% in 2009; retail trade dropped over 7%).

Real GDP plummeted 4.8 percent in the first quarter: This is a little surprising: business lockdowns only started at the tail end of the quarter and shouldn’t have had a huge effect. This ...

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart. By DAVID LEONHARDT AUG. 7, 2017. Income Growth. Over previous 34 years. But now, the very affluent (the 99.999th percentile) see the largest income growth ...