The U.S. economy shrank over the initial months of President Donald Trump’s second term as a flurry of tariff proposals ...

ToplineAs recession fears reverberate from Washington to Wall Street, Wednesday brought the most comprehensive yardstick yet ...

The U.S. economy contracted 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025, the first negative reading since the COVID pandemic, according ...

U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in Q1 2025, reversing the 2.4% growth seen in Q4 2024. Rising imports and falling government ...

Gross domestic product, or GDP, is a measure of a country's economic output over a certain time period—usually a year. GDP is looked to as a primary indicator of a country's economic health.

Mira Norian / Investopedia GDP per capita is a metric that indicates an economy's gross domestic product per person, used as a measure of prosperity. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is an ...

After dropping 1.6% during the first quarter of 2022, the GDP fell another 0.9% in the second quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Though the U.S. has met one common definition ...

This week, the Commerce Department announced the U.S. had experienced two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth – meeting a common definition of a recession. But other economic factors ...

A country's debt-to-GDP ratio is a metric that expresses how leveraged a country is by comparing its public debt to its annual economic output. Just like people and businesses, countries often ...