Real GDP is often favored over nominal GDP as it accounts for the effects of inflation. Thus, if nominal GDP grew at 4% in a given year, but the inflation rate was 5%, it actually shrunk by 1% in ...

Strategas Research on today’s GDP report (plus chart): The headline real GDP data were “OK,” showing a 1.5% q/q annual rate for the second quarter … The key question is what “muddle ...

Chart #3 A $6 trillion surge in deficit-financed government spending was not initially inflationary because the demand for money (which is proxied by the ratio of M2 to nominal GDP in the chart ...

As Chart #5 shows, both M2 and nominal GDP have a strong tendency to grow by about the same rate over longer periods. When they diverge from this trend it's due to a change in the public's desire ...

This chart comes to us from RBC Capital's Jonathan Golub. "Historically, a 1% change in nominal GDP has resulted in a 2.6% change in S&P 500 revenues," he wrote.

There's no question that you've seen charts like this before. This one is from Paul Ryan. The point he makes is that if we don't get our spending on Medicare under control, the economy will be ...

In nominal terms, China's GDP fell to $17.5 trillion while its share of the global total slipped a point to 17 percent, Magnus said on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday, citing data from the ...

The last time nominal GDP growth and interest rates were almost equal was in the period between fiscal 2001 and fiscal 2003 (CHART 1A), which saw the Centre’s debt-to-GDP ratio jump from 57% to ...

Year-on-year GDP growth at current prices fell sharply from 13.6% in the September 2014 quarter to 8.1% in the December quarter and further to 7.7% in the quarter ended March 2015. Photo: Mint One ...

The main reason is that nominal GDP still looks vulnerable, running at just below a 4% pace. A more robust expansion would typically be characterized by nominal growth of at least 6%, ie ...