Economic indicators are pieces or sets of macroeconomic data that are indicative of the past, present, or future state of the economy or some part of it. Even outside of the realm of finance, the ...

But when you ask people who aren’t economists, they might define it differently. Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes professor of political economy at Harvard University and founder of the ...

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit organization that officially declares US recessions and expansions, the technical definition of a recession is "a ...