Econ Exploder: GDP

We are back with Indicators of the Week! Today, we'll be digging into why U.S. professional gamblers are worried about their future, why businesses might start investing more in research and development, and why cancelling your subscriptions is going to remain difficult.Related e ... Show More

Many small businesses are online now, but so are cyber criminals trying to take advantage. On today's show, how one bar owner fell victim to a Facebook scam and if big tech could do more to protect small business owners from increasing cyber attacks. Read Stephan's original piece ... Show More

We are just at the start of hurricane season, and we're already seeing the danger and tragedy brought on by storms. There's another cost that gets much less attention, but it's a gamble everyone in the path of a storm has to make.Today on the show, we examine the decision on whet ... Show More

US fourth quarter GDP data is revised today. This does not give us a slightly less ill-informed picture of economic activity at the end of last year, but it is still likely to miss quite a lot that is going on in the economy. Economies are changing faster than statisticians, and ... Show More

On today’s show we are talking about some of the tricks that bureaucrats use to manipulate the inflation metrics that are being used to decide monetary policy. The cost of money affects the cost of virtually everything we buy. So the power to manipulate the economy and affect the ... Show More

The gross domestic product (GDP) figure translated to a quarterly increase of 1.5%. It's the third straight quarter of expansion led by external demand and expanded exports by 3.2% respectively. The positive GBD data was driven by exports of goods such as automobiles as supply ch ... Show More

China confronts the threat of economic stagnation and deflation as it fails to bounce back post-Covid. Some analysts now say the government's economic growth target around 5% could be at risk for a second year in a row 

P.M. Edition for July 27. The U.S. economy is defying expectations of a slowdown. The Commerce Department reported GDP grew at a 2.4% annual rate in the second quarter. Labor economics reporter Sarah Chaney Cambon has more details. Plus, does Facebook polarize users? Technology r ... Show More

What even is "the economy"? And how do you measure it? Our path out of the economic darkness and into the light has been guided in large part by one single statistic: GDP. This week: the origins, history, and problems with the economic indicator to rule them all. | At this Summer ... Show More

A new Consumer Price Index report was recently released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report shows cooling inflation, and the likely end of future interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. On today's show, you're going to hear my take on this CPI report and how it will ... Show More

The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge adds to the cooling inflation evidence (0:15). Biogen (BIIB) buys a rare disease drugmaker (3:25). It has never been cheaper to hedge against S&P losses (4:55). Read a transcript of this episode at Seeking Alpha. Show Links Employment cost index ... Show More

Revised GDP data shows US economy shrank in the second quarter, solidifying two straight quarters of contraction -- one definition of a recession. Listen for more details.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy