Understand conspicuous consumption as the display of wealth through luxury purchases. Learn how this behavior impacts social status across all economic classes.

Investment is a smaller but more volatile component of GDP than consumption. Drops in investment have tended to precede recessions, consumption doesn't always drop during recessions. Consumption ...

Discover how capital consumption allowance (CCA) affects economic production, its role as a GDP measure, and its impact on a nation's economic health and growth.

Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago and AEI, and James Sullivan of Notre Dame last week released their report on consumption poverty in the United States for the year 2016. The takeaway from the ...

PDF document available at: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/PB_109_Jun30.pdf In his report to the 59th Commission for ...

What is the effect of government spending on private consumption? Estimates show that stimulus distributed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had a large positive effect. Estimates ...

Amid growing tensions around President Xi Jinping’s international assertiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic, important changes in two key policy areas – domestic security and consumption – are slowly ...

Multiple regions across China have rolled out consumption campaigns at the end of the year, featuring diverse promotions and ...

Total US energy consumption fell to 93 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2020, down 7% from 2019, according to US Energy Information Administration (EIA)’s Monthly Energy Review. Last year ...