Heterodox economists have long criticized politicians’ maniacal obsession with GDP growth, pointing to its relatively recent ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports ...

Elon Musk is claiming that the Department ... how to fudge the numbers and remove government spending from gross domestic product reports to hide how much DOGE’s government cuts have hurt ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire appointed by President ... members of the transatlantic alliance spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense – a huge increase from the current 2% ...

The stock market dropped sharply in recent days as investors worried about the effects of new tariffs on Canada and Mexico by ...

Government spending is traditionally included in the GDP because changes in taxes, spending, deficits and regulations by the ...

That echoes a recent message from Elon Musk on, X, the social-media service he owns, in which the unofficial head of the group known as the Department of Government Efficiency said a more accurate ...

Billionaire Elon Musk is at the center of cutting federal spending for Donald Trump, but the president urged him to use a scalpel rather than hatchet.