S2-Ep2: Keeping Score: The GDP

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Politicians developed a metric known as GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, during the depths of the Great Depression to help measure the strength of the economy.  GDP become something of a scoreboard for countries around the world and gave politicians a measure stick to gauge the impact of policy decisions.  In time, increasing GDP became a national obsession and drives decision making for our leaders today.