Stiglitz says GDP may be poor indicator of economy
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Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist tapped to head a new French study, said Tuesday he sees gross domestic product (GDP), the most often cited yardstick, as an imperfect indicator.
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The probability of the U.S. economy sliding into a recession is now over 50 percent, but it is not a sure thing, National Bureau of Economic Research President Martin Feldstein said on Thursday.
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Most Americans believe their country's economy is in decline and that its cities are experiencing economic troubles on a variety of fronts, according to a Zogby International Poll released Wednesday.
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The US gross domestic product grew only 2.2 percent last quarter.
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WASHINGTON  -The U.S. economy grew at its weakest rate in more than four years during the opening three months of this year as businesses sold off inventories and Americans imported more foreign goods, a Commerce Department report on Thursday showed.
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A downward spiral of falling house prices and reduced mortgage lending threatens the economy, an economist warns.
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The White House predicted the economy would escape a recession and unemployment would remain low this year, though it acknowledged growth had already slowed.
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Some policy makers caution that the central bankâs main tool to keep the economy from sliding into recession may be ill-suited to the problem it faces.
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Federal Reserve economists think aging  workers and a shrinking workweek mean the maximum sustainable  U.S. economic growth rate may slow, Fed Governor Frederic  Mishkin said on Thursday.
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BusinessWeek Online - November ended with a volley of unfriendly data for the U.S. economy, and it looks as if December is starting out the same way. Weakness in U.S. economic reports released on Dec. 1 concerning the Institute for Supply Management's factory sentiment index, and construction spending -- following the weak releases on durable goods orders, the Chicago purchasing managers' sentiment index, and initial jobless claims earlier in the week -- have taken a big chunk out of the near-term U.S. GDP outlook. But the reports probably won't move the Federal Reserve from its current policy path.
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The weak U.S. dollar and a huge trade deficit eventually may cause dire economic problems for the country, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Friday.
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The economy nearly stalled in the first quarter with growth slowing to a pace of just 0.6 percent. That was the worst three-month showing in over four years.
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Weak growth in the 25-member European Union bloc is endangering the global economy, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown warned in a newspaper article.
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The Japanese economy is close to stagnation, according to revisions to official figures yesterday that cut the estimate of GDP growth to just 0.1 per cent.
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The U.S. economy may be in recession,   based on Midwest manufacturing data, a report said on Thursday.
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Gordon Brown today warns that weak growth in Europe is putting the global economy in jeopardy. In an article in the Financial Times, in which he cautions that the world recovery remains fragile, the chancellor
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Federal Reserve economists think aging workers and a shrinking workweek mean the maximum sustainable U.S. economic growth rate may slow, Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin said on Thursday.