With the U.S. national debt nearing $39 trillion, Sen. John Curtis has introduced a bipartisan bill to create a fiscal commission. Learn how it would work.

There is a welcome conversation happening in our party right now about the limits of GDP as a measure of success. As our Thriving Economy working group develops the policies that will take us into the ...

Some researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life in the United States, ...

Oakland County Executive David Coulter announced a new debt relief initiative in partnership with the SAVI Student Loan Support Program during his March 5, 2026, State of the County Address.

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has argued that the concept of growth itself must be redefined, proposing a “social value-based growth model” as a breakthrough for South Korea’s low-growth economy.

The slowing labor market and far slower economic growth of 2025 had a major cause: the economic uncertainty surrounding Trump ...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing to confront a staggering price tag for the war in the Middle East after closed-door ...

India is set to adopt a new GDP series with 2022-23 as the base year, replacing the 2011-12 series currently in use. While base revisions are a routine statistical exercise, this update comes after a ...

Maybe you saw the piece by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe in the front section last week about how Ottawa, via the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, is giving a group he ...

It's Pariksha Pe Charcha season - that annual reminder to parents not to turn board exams into a national emergency. Marks hide a lot: stress, health issues, mental pressure, sometimes even shortcuts.

Statisticians use three data sources—on output, income and expenditure—to measure GDP. They triangulate their best estimate of economic activity based on a reading from all three. The figures released ...

Antonio Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, wants to change the way economic growth is calculated and has set up a high-level working group of distinguished economists, including ...