Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. The real value of an item is its nominal ...
This Economic Letter discusses a topic that at first glance appears to be boring and technical but that in fact turns out to be quite important: the proper interpretation of chain-weighted data. To ...
The advance estimate for real GDP growth fell at an annualized pace of 0.3 percent in the first quarter. All of the decline can be attributed to a surge in imports in advance of tariffs. With ...
The International Monetary Fund has just warned of slowing global economic growth in its latest analysis. Similar to this finding, a newly issued report reveals the world’s wealthiest countries by ...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) last week released the economic growth data for the first quarter - covering months of April, May and June of the current financial year ...
US GDP growth appears strong, driven by AI-related capital expenditures, despite weakening consumer sentiment and slowing household spending. AI CapEx by hyperscalers now outweighs household spending ...