Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. The real value of an item is its nominal ...

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China has revised the way it measures the size of its economy, the first such change since 2002, in what it says is an effort to better align its data with international standards. The adjusted ...