Most economists like talking about the very popular metric GDP (aka, gross domestic product). It’s not so much about how effective the metric is in capturing the overall economic conditions, but ...

The astonishing 8.2 per cent GDP growth in the second quarter of FY26 and a revival in consumption patterns have raised hopes of the economy speeding at a faster clip this fiscal than the 6.5 per cent ...

The S&P 500 has consistently reached new highs since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. Federal Reserve policy, initiated by Ben Bernanke, has fundamentally changed how monetary policy supports ...

The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen. Gross domestic product (GDP) was never designed to be a measure of societal ...

The US economy expanded sharply in the second quarter as businesses dialed back on imports after stocking up earlier in the year to get ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But a look under the ...

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Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...