Discover how economic growth rate measures a nation's economic health over time using GDP, along with its formula and real-world examples for better understanding.

Something may not be quite right in the U.S. economy, and it's not just a one-off jobs report that points to that.

On Friday, ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said that artificial intelligence and other breakthrough technologies are about to unleash a historic productivity boom that could drive U.S. inflation down to ...

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated that real GDP contracted at an annualized rate of 0.3 percent in Q1 2025, the first negative reading since Q1 2022. The April 29 GDPNow nowcasts were well ...

Unless the red flags signaling a recession become more pronounced, it probably won’t be clear whether the United States is in a recession until July. A recession requires at least two quarters of ...

The economy contracted at a 0.2% annual rate in the first quarter of 2025, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday in a revision to its estimate of GDP. A preliminary report from the agency ...

Economists have warned the president’s immigration policies could drive a labor shortage threatening to shrink U.S. GDP ...

The Rural Mainstreet Index, released Thursday, sank below growth neutral for the seventh time in 2025. Other results from the ...

Roughly a week ago (Friday, May 2), both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrials reached a milestone that has not occurred for more than 20 years. That milestone: nine consecutive sessions of higher ...

People drive economic growth. Which means President Trump’s problem isn’t the Fed, it’s his own administration’s deportations. Trump wants economic growth, but he doesn't want ...