Gross domestic product, or GDP, is a measure of a country's economic output over a certain time period—usually a year. GDP is looked to as a primary indicator of a country's economic health.

Investopedia / Mira Norian An economic cycle, also known as a business cycle, refers to economic fluctuations between periods of expansion and contraction. Factors such as gross domestic product ...

Estimating the GDP of this entire economy — which now stands just shy of $29.2 trillion — is a work in progress. The Bureau ...

according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Though the U.S. has met one common definition of a recession – two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth – in some ways, the current economy ...