Here's a striking chart, from a 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives article 1520464250646 by Brookings Institution economists Martin Neil Baily and Barry P. Bosworth on the state of manufacturing in ...

Real gross domestic product is often a more accurate reflection of the output of an economy than nominal GDP. By eliminating ...

We've had a lot of fun over the last month and a half diving into GDP revisions, where we were the first ones ever to try to use brand new series of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on the ...

In this slowing U.S. economy, it's important to understand why and how economists' adjustments of actual data can produce misleading results. Worse, those adjusted results often are presented as ...

Economic growth at the start of this year is looking soft. However, historical data suggest some of this slowing may simply reflect a statistical anomaly. The U.S. economy expanded at a strong pace in ...