Gross Domestic Product (GDP) includes consumer spending, government spending, net exports, and total investments. It functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a country’s economic health.

Gross domestic product plays an outsize role in how we think of what the American economy creates. It’s what the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis refers to as its “featured measure of ...

Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is a measurement of economic output. It’s the total value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country, region, or industry during a specified ...

Moreover, “gross” domestic product takes no account of the wear and tear on the machinery, buildings, and so on (the so-called capital stock) that are used in producing the output. If this depletion ...