A simple reason explains why U.S. economic growth seemed to hit a wall in the final three months of the year.

Understand the income approach to GDP, where total expenditures equal the income from goods and services in an economy.

GDP grew at an annualized rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter, down from 4.4% in the third quarter. The report was originally ...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals represent a carefully-crafted road map for future human and planetary prosperity.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, hit by the effects of the government shutdown.

The US economy grew at a much slower pace in the final months of 2025 as the historic government shutdown weighed on economic activity, ending a year that saw the weakest growth since the pandemic.

The U.S. economy surged between April and June after shrinking in the first three months of the year, driven by a large shift in imports tied to President Trump's trade policies. The country's GDP ...