Gaon to Gurgaon

Gaon to Gurgaon

Ever since we have started acknowledging Gurgaon, the transformation from overlooked backwoods to an ideal city can be looked through easily. Located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi, about 10 kilometers from Dwarka sub-city and 268 km south of…

Get In Their Heads

I have foreseen the current recessionary environment since December. Although the market has confirmed my opinion by selling off this year, it hasn’t been as violent as it can get. On Twitter Keith McCullough said he polled all of the PMs at a firm and none of them were forecasting a recession…

#ANSWER: GDP, The Bell Tolls For Thee

GDP may be the most anticipated number of the year, but it‘s ill…

#Answer: GDP — Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Plenty of people have been questioning whether presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s proposal for 4 percent GDP growth is feasible. But not enough attention has been paid to a better question: Is GDP the economic indicator that presidential candidates…

#ANSWER: GDP, Consumed By Change

An excerpt adopted from GDP, The Bell Tolls for Thee

Embrace the Machine, Rage Against the Metric

On April 20, 2010, a massive explosion lit up the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11…

Asian Economies are Slowing Down

These days, everybody thinks China economy (or Asia in general) is slowly falling down. Well, I wanted to be sure about it. So I made my own computation.

The idea of this short study was to make a relation between the growth of different Asian…

Who’s Counting?

Economic growth. It’s the Holy Grail — the best promise of a better tomorrow. Yet for…

Healthy Consumption Growth Keeps GDP Positive in Fourth Quarter

Productivity growth will be near zero for 2015.

by Dean Baker