GDP: The total market value of all goods and services produced within the political boundaries of an economy during a given period of time, usually one year. This is the government's official measure of how much output our economy produces. It's tabulated and reported by the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Gross domestic product is one of several measures reported regularly (every three months) by the pointy-headed folks at the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

     See also | gross domestic product | net domestic product | real gross domestic product | GDP price deflator | Bureau of Economic Analysis | National Income and Product Accounts | national income | personal income | disposable income | real GDP | nominal GDP | gross national product |

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An economy in which the government uses its coercive powers to answer the three questions of allocation. This is the real world version of the idealized theoretical pure command economy. While in this real world version some allocation decisions are undertaken by markets, the vast majority are made through central planning.

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2nd Quarter of 2010
Annual Growth Rate Dropped 0.9%
Labor costs rose 0.2%

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