...flawed. AS AN INDICATOR of the intensity of our war effort, the ratio of federal government expenditures to gross domestic product (GDP) reached a maximum of about 60 percent in the war years 1944-45. Because of the nation's commitment...

...high. That figure had shrunk to $12.7 trillion when the recession ended. In the final three months of 2012, gross domestic product was $13.7 trillion. Still, that gain comes with an asterisk, because the population has grown. Viewed on...

...contradict basic freedoms of a free-enterprise economy, contributing immensely to the recent disappointing gross domestic product and employment growth. They cost businesses billions of dollars a year, which, even though they may, to...

The big tally of the economic power of the Augusta metro area was almost $20 billion in 2011.Gross domestic product in the Augusta area grew to $19.9 billion in 2011, up from $19.1 billion in 2010, placing Augusta 108th among metro areas...

...bloc's less developed countries. In financial terms, the budget amounts to only about 1 percent of the EU's gross domestic product, but carries great political significance as it lays bare the balance of power between the bloc's members.The...

...the 1.3 percent rate reported for the April-June quarter.The main reason for the upward revision to the gross domestic product was businesses restocked at a faster pace than previously estimated. That offset weaker consumer spending growth...

...Medicare and Medicaid?With entitlements including Obamacare, federal spending rises to 24 percent of America's gross domestic product. It's that stubborn adherence to big spending that's powering the momentum toward the fiscal cliff.And...

...unemployment would stay that high until late 2015.The government's final estimate of a 3.1 percent growth rate for gross domestic product last quarter is a sharp improvement over its initial estimate of a 2 percent rate ? a figure that it later revised...

...percent of the people.The voters the GOP can't attract are those living in a dream world ? those who think a gross domestic product increase of 2 percent is a reasonable economy at the same time the federal budget is $1 trillion in the red...

...help farming and spur growth in the bloc's less developed, and it amounts to about 1 percent of the EU's gross domestic product.France's Hollande said that was worth fighting for, adding he would be happy to walk away from the meeting...