... open to international trade for the risk of outsourcing to be significant. He estimates just 3 percent of the Gross Domestic Product and 2 percent of jobs in the U.S. land in both of those categories. "To the guy running his tractor or generator ...

... overall debt is now slightly over 80 percent of the annual output of the entire U.S. economy, as measured by the gross domestic product. By historical standards, it's not proportionately as high as during World War II, when it briefly rose to ...

... strong economy. A weak recovery that falls short of the administration's forecast of 3.2 percent growth in gross domestic product in 2010 would result in lower than expected revenue and greater potential deficits over time. Trying to further ...

... deficit was $98.2 billion in November 2007. An annual deficit of $1 trillion would equal 6.7 percent of the gross domestic product, the economy's total output in a single year. That would surpass the previous postwar record in GDP terms ...

... 1982. While government figures released Tuesday for the third quarter showed only a 0.5 percent drop in the gross domestic product, a key indicator of economic health, two reports on home sales sketched a bleaker picture. Demand for both ...

... two-thirds of the total economy. The government reported Tuesday that the overall economy, as measured by gross domestic product, was declining at an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the July-September quarter. Analysts believe the contraction ...

... to the Social Security Trust Fund or held by the Federal Reserve) stood at $5.8 trillion, or 41 percent of gross domestic product about what the debt-to-GDP ratio has averaged since 1956. But the Congressional Budget Office projects deficits ...

... statistical analyses to account for other factors that might explain the findings by examining differences in gross domestic product, electricity consumption and urban population density. On average, the countries with the highest nighttime ...

... The 1981-82 and 1973-75 recessions each lasted 16 months. Unemployment hasn't reached 1982 levels and the gross domestic product hasn't fallen quite as far. But the hurt from this recession is spread more widely and uncertainty about the ...

... is at 8.1 percent and rising. As bad as things are here, they are worse almost everywhere else. Japan's gross domestic product plunged almost 13 percent in the last three months of 2008, double the U.S. rate. Several Eastern European ...