What GDP is and why it matters While imperfect, the metric carries major real-world implications, experts said.

The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross domestic product, or GDP. "It's the sum of everything the country makes," Luke ...

GDP is one of the most important numbers in modern economics, but few people really know what it means. Learn what you need to know in this handy explainer.

When we focus on the topline GDP number, we lose focus of its implications (or lack thereof) on inequality, climate change, and well-being.

By now, most of us have heard the news that our GDP is down 6.2 percent. But what does this number mean and, more importantly, what should we do about it? What indicators can we trust, and what's ...