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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco says our rough winter weather skewed the data on gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the first quarter. GDP grew at just two-tenths of a percent at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's government is considering calculating the country's potential growth rate in addition to the official GDP to show that there is room for the economy to expand ...