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A post like this really shouldn't be necessary, but part of the right wing canard that Obama has been a profligate spender is based on spending as a percentage of GDP. It looks like this - Graph 1.

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.

E = mc2 remains an equation upon which monumental advancements in man’s understanding of his world have been developed. Yet the fundamental representation of what produces Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ...

Find out how GDP can help measure the health of a country’s economy Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, ...

The chart above shows quarterly federal government spending (current expenditures) as a share of GDP (data here), with actual data from 1976 to 2010 and projected estimates from 2011 to 2021 according ...

NATO allies are meeting in the Netherlands on June 24-25 this week. The alliance has reportedly agreed to hike their defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product by 2035. One chart shows what a ...

Before this week's annual NATO summit had even begun, allies reportedly agreed on Sunday to hike their defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. Getting to that target, however ...