While the government did cut its outlays in February the budget deficit for the month more than doubled compared to January ...
Top Trump administration officials are arguing that it is misleading to include government spending in the quarterly tally of ...
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday he would strip out government spending from the gross domestic product ...
That prompted Trump adviser Elon Musk to muse on Friday that a “more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending,” on X, the platform he owns. Over the weekend, Commerce ...
Gross domestic product is a controversial metric. Heterodox economists have long criticized politicians’ maniacal obsession with GDP growth, pointing to its relatively recent creation as a ...