But it might be a product of businesses holding back on imports after going on an import binge earlier this year to avoid ...

There's one statistic that rules them all when it comes to keeping track of the economy: gross domestic product (GDP). It's the sum of all final transactions, so all the goods or services bought and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Most economists like talking about the very popular metric GDP (aka, gross domestic product) ...