GDP

GDP shrank 0.1 percent last quarter. Private investment rose, but government spending fell. That bodes ill if automatic budget cuts can’t be avoided.

A Commerce Department report out today shows that GDP fell 0.1 percent last quarter, but consumer spending, business investment and employment continue to rise.

The world's fastest growing economy just posted it's worst growth figures in over a decade. Is it time to be concerned?

When it comes to economic growth, is the U.S. more like China or like Europe?

The latest revision of third quarter GDP finds the U.S. economy growing even faster than we'd thought this summer -- 3.1 percent.

Though the latest GDP numbers are up and jobless claims are down, the economic details tell a gloomier story.

The government is estimating U.S. GDP grew two percent for the past three months. The figure is better than economists had expected -- but then again, they weren't expecting much.

It's said the new gadget, expected to be released on Wednesday, could add between a quarter and a half a percentage point to fourth-quarter GDP.

How does our garbage relate to our GDP? Economist Michael McDonough has worked out the GDP-to-trash economic indicator.