GDI may be a more robust, and worrying, measure of growth

The alternative gross domestic income (GDI) measure of output suggests that the US economy is hardly growing at all. What’s more, there are a couple of reasons why GDI may be a more robust and more reliable measure of output than the more widely used gross domestic product (GDP) measure.

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