Real gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all goods and services produced by a nation within a certain span of time, adjusted for inflation. It includes both the goods and services sold in the marketplace, such as a can of tuna at the grocery or server space leased from a website host, [...]

We all use economic principles in our daily lives, even if we don’t realize it or know that someone has given them names. Like the laws of physics, ignoring them or passing laws or having good intentions doesn’t change them in any way. Actions always have consequenses.

The New York Times published an article today placing blame on the Bush Administration for the current (latest) global economic meltdown.  The staff piece recounts the actions of George Bush- in championing home ownership, in allowing banks, brokers, and finance companies to expand home lending, and in failing to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac- and [...]

What you always wanted to know abotu economics but never dared to ask.

For more than a hundred fifty years, economics has been feared by students, lay people and economists themselves. Not the least source of this fear has been the fact that economics has been labeled as “the dismal science.” The study of economics has been living with its moniker ever since English philosopher Thomas Carlyle ascribed [...]