Below is a chart of total government spending (federal, state and local) as a share of GDP, going all the way back to 1929, the first year for which Bureau of Economic Analysis Data are available.

GDP is also included for comparison: As you can see, the rates of change of these components don't always match up. The big outlier is the fourth quarter of 2009.

NATO estimates show Poland spent the highest percentage of its GDP on defense and was the only country estimated to spend ...

For easier comparison, then, the chart displays both the old and new data in the form of an index with the peak of the previous cycle, Q4 2007, equal to 100. Several features stand out in the chart.

To illustrate, our charts below plot the composite PMIs from S&P Global (covering output of both manufacturing and services) against GDP for the US and Eurozone.

Learning Markets is excited to announce its new Fundamental Comparison Charts. Have you ever looked at an economic announcement---like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States or the ...

The chart provides some perspective on Europe's economic success, based on data that compare 2007 GDP per person on a purchasing power parity basis for U.S. states and European countries, ...

Poland was one of these countries. At the time, its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita stood at $21,200 per year, around half the EU average, Our World in Data (OWID) reports. Since then ...

Lots of comparison has been done with the highs that the markets scaled in 2008 and how they currently stand. P/E in first week of January 2008 was 28 times and price-to-book was 6.5 times while ...

Here is an interesting co-relation between GDP growth and repo rate hikes! This is reflective when we compare the repo rate with the GDP growth in the period between Q4, 2009-2010 and Q2, 2011-12.

Today’s GDP report got me curious about something: how does private sector GDP compare to total GDP? That is, if you pull out government contributions to GDP growth, what does purely private ...