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During economic downturns an economy’s output of goods and services declines. When times are good, by contrast, that output—usually measured as GDP—increases (see “Gross Domestic Product: An Economy’s ...
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In August 2020, the Congressional Budget Office projected a wide 6.6 percentage point gulf between actual and potential GDP in 2020. The CBO also in August 2020, projected that the output gap would ...
The GDP framework and the output gap are an abstraction that does little more than provide justification for the interventions of government officials. According to popular thinking, the key cause ...