Poonkulali Thangavelu has worked 10+ years as a writer and editor covering investment, personal finance, and mortgage-related topics. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds ...

When it comes to measuring the strength of the economy, one of the most important metrics to watch is the gross domestic product, or GDP. This week, the Commerce Department announced the U.S. had ...

How should we measure changes in an economy's standard of living, or compare living standards across countries? Typically, economists use GDP per capita as a proxy for a country's standard of living, ...

In today’s WSJ, Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein has an excellent op-ed (“The U.S. Underestimates Growth“) about a recent topic covered in a series of posts on CD — how “the ...

One of the recurrent themes at the United Nations’ spectacularly unsuccessful Rio+20 summit in June was the need to change how we measure wealth. Many argue that we must abandon our “obsession” with ...