English: Created by vectorizing Image:Medicare and Medicaid GDP Chart.png with Inkscape (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is now time for the adults runing the system to start telling the truth about ...

Despite the challenging external environment, the economic outlook in PNG remains positive, underpinned by a projected recovery in the extractive sector, higher commodity prices, and gradual recovery ...

A stunning chart that shows the entire economic history of the world's most powerful countries over the past 2,000 years has been released by investment bank JP Morgan. Viewed as a whole ...

The American consumer drives the U.S. economy. Consumer spending generally makes up around 70% of the nation's GDP. So when spending grows, the nation grows. But when spending slows, so does ...

Asia (minus Japan) accounts for 60% of the world's population and 30% of its GDP. So, one way to read the graph, very broadly speaking, is that everything to the left of 1800 is an approximation ...

It's no secret that the world's economic center of gravity has been shifting east ever since the 1950s. And one interesting way to see this trend is by looking at the shares of global GDP moving ...

Like many other resource-rich countries, PNG has been hit hard by the decline in commodity prices. GDP growth in 2016 declined to 2% from 11.8% in 2015 and 12.5% in 2014, according to statistics from ...

To get a sense for this, I took data from the federal government and calculated annual percent change in GDP. (Click to enlarge) The blue line on the chart below gives a pretty standard looking ...