The GDP price deflator tracks inflation in U.S. goods and services, capturing price changes beyond a fixed basket. Learn its role in measuring economic trends.

Conventional wisdom these days is that in order for the Fed to bring inflation down, they are going to have to kneecap the economy. Looking back at last year as a whole, real GDP shrank at a 1.1% ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link How do you get from Nominal GDP to Real GDP? The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) uses its own GDP Deflator for this purpose. In a recent ...

The International Monetary Fund has just warned of slowing global economic growth in its latest analysis. Similar to this finding, a newly issued report reveals the world’s wealthiest countries by ...

The year 2026 witnessed the much-anticipated release of the new GDP series with an updated base year. The initial exuberance ...

The new national accounts, or GDP, series with 2022-23 base year raises the question of whether the deflators being used are accurate. Inaccuracies on account of the use of the wholesale price index ...

Central banks in the developed world are using the wrong metric to measure price pressures and should instead use something called the “GDP deflator”, three academics have written. The analysis, ...

Economists remain divided on whether the unrevised WPI base will distort real GDP estimates as India shifts its GDP base year ...