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.

Economic indicators are pieces or sets of macroeconomic data that are indicative of the past, present, or future state of the economy or some part of it. Even outside of the realm of finance, the ...

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 ...

If you can walk into a supermarket and find Costa Rican bananas, Brazilian coffee, and a bottle of South African wine, you're experiencing the impacts of international trade. International trade was ...