GDP measures economic size; CPI and PPI gauge goods costs impacting buying power and production costs. Leading indicators like housing starts predict economic trends, lagging ones like unemployment ...

Explore the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), a holistic measure that contrasts with GDP by incorporating environmental and ...

Learn how economic forecasting uses GDP, inflation, and key indicators to project future economic trends and inform business ...

As I write this, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has fallen below 3.8% as global markets tumble on growing recession fears. Investors rushed into the perceived safety of government debt after Friday ...

Online dating traffic, cardboard box production and movie success offer insights into consumer behavior and economic health. The combined occurrence of informal indicators can highlight broader ...

A forward-looking gauge of the economy fell by 0.5% in August, with the dual headwinds of a slowing labor market and increased import tariffs dragging down the Conference Board’s leading economic ...

If the 1970s were the decade of the Great Inflation, 2022 was the year of the Little Inflation. It was worse than many people expected, including me. But as the year ends, inflation is dwindling, and ...

The manufacturing sector contracted in June, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. It said the sector shrank at an even faster rate than it did in May. Manufacturing’s been under pressure, ...

The December 2025 reading was 50.4, and the 3-month rolling average in January 2026 hit 52.3. Both of those numbers are the lowest ever seen on this report going all the way back to the late 1970s.

Far more than a beneficiary verification exercise, the West Bengal government’s newly launched Annapurna Yojana is emerging ...