An economic shock, also known as a macroeconomic shock, is any unexpected event that has a large-scale, unexpected impact on the economy. Many, but not all, economists also say that a shock has to be ...

Gross domestic product (GDP) measures the market value of all goods and services a country produces in a specific time frame. It’s used to gauge a nation’s economic growth and its people’s standard of ...

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The unthinkable has finally become a reality: The U.S. government has shut down. A legislative deadlock triggered by President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) combined with fears of ...

Lindsay Tedds is associate professor of economics in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of ...

While the economy is still in a "strong position," the risks that unemployment and inflation will rise have gone up, the Federal Reserve said last week. Those factors, along with slower economic ...

With the U.S. government potentially set to reopen as early as Wednesday evening, a TD Securities team put together an overview of the pieces of missing economic data they expect to emerge first. "We ...